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Hasn’t THE NEW YORK TIMES Better Things to Do?
It seems to have taken over a week for the buzz over the “standards injunction” against the use of “tweet” at The New York Times to build to an audible roar. I suppose what tipped it over the edge was the coverage it got in...
Somali President Asks Army Chief to Investigate Allegations of Child Soldier Recruitment
The president of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has instructed his army commander to investigate recent media reports that the Somali government has recruited young boys to join its national army. The statement...
Life Outside New York
Today’s print edition of The New York Times ran a review by Nate Chinen of a concert given at the Italian Academy, on the Columbia University campus, by the Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu in the company of guitarist Ralph Towner, who may be best...
Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson And Sterling Children’s Books Launch Helping Hand Books
This August, the Duchess of York and Sterling Children’s Books will publish Helping Hand Books, a series designed to help children understand personal and social issues that affect them growing up, including starting school, coping with bullying...
Canadian Actor Alex Ferris to Appear As “Collin” in Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Canadian actor Alex Ferris is set to appear as “Collin” alongside Zachary Gordon, Chloe Moretz, Steve Zahn, Rachael Harris, and Robert Capron in Twentieth Century Fox Films’ DIARY OF A WIMPY KID, premiering March 19, 2010.
The Blind Descend Upon the Elephant
Yesterday’s post began with the proposition that “when one encounters news that threatens to make one groan with grief, the best retaliation is an absurd fantasy with a decidedly cheerful disposition.” In trying to make my case for...
The Curse of the Middle-Brow
Yesterday, in (finally) writing my review of Robin D. G. Kelley’s Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original, I mustered some of my own chutzpah in suggesting that one could “factor out the issue of race” in reading...
J. D. Salinger And Multiple Readings
I suspect that the prevailing hypothesis over why Jerome David Salinger retreated to Cornish, New Hampshire is that he wanted nothing to do with what, in today’s language, is called “buzz.” He realized that publicity was an inevitable...
