The New New York Times Website
Check out the New York Times’s new hairdo. It’s easy to complain about redesigns, but, uh, was something wrong with the old website? Why’d you have to go changing on us, nytimes.com? I suppose the cramped, thin, low-impact fonts make room for more headlines on the front page, which, from a news-conveying standpoint, is good, and according to this note from the website editor there are other enhancing features built into the thing. But the impression it leaves is of frailty.
Don’t miss the story in today’s Times about “Helen Vendler, arguably the country’s most prominent poetry critic” taking on “Alice Quinn of The New Yorker, arguably the country’s most prominent poetry editor” over Quinn’s new collection of dead poet Elizabeth Bishop’s unpublished fragments, drafts, etc. Vendler says publishing this book is “reprehensible.” Quinn, who says she anticipated this attack from Vendler, will be in Seattle promoting the book on April 27 at Richard Hugo House.
Why do they hate us Boomers so? Using small print like that hurts my eyes. If I stare at it too long I won't be able to skateboard over to the UW for my seminars.