Monday, May 11, 2009
Media / Books "...filing to the New Yorker is like filing to the dump."
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:37 PM
Jacket Copy reports that Dan Baum, who was fired from the New Yorker in 2007, is telling the story of his time at the magazine on Twitter.
Not many writers have opened up extensively about their time at the New Yorker, and Baum's story is at once enlightening (the payment structure is downright depressing) and banal (the office politics are as unexciting as any office politics.) But it's really interesting to get a look into one of the most secretive magazines in America.
(BONUS: If you're not into the New Yorker, you could instead follow astronaut Mike Massimino's live-Twittering of the Atlantis space mission.)
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Not only all that, but they also dared to publish a NEGATIVE review of Star Trek!
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/ci…
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/ci…
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If anyone actually wants to read this, metafilter's own mudpuppie has reformatted it to actually be readable here:
http://www.metafilter.com/81577/Twitter-…
Wasn't as interesting as I'd hoped.
http://www.metafilter.com/81577/Twitter-…
Wasn't as interesting as I'd hoped.
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The astronaut's Twitter is the coolest use of Twitter ever. Love it!
That journalist is laughably idiotic. Twittering an essay, one sentence at a time, demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the purpose and appropriate applications of Twitter. It's just obnoxious and overly-techno-precious. I'm trying to think of a less-cliche way of saying this, but the truth is: he thinks he's so cool but he's not.
Thanks for the astronaut link!
That journalist is laughably idiotic. Twittering an essay, one sentence at a time, demonstrates a complete lack of understanding of the purpose and appropriate applications of Twitter. It's just obnoxious and overly-techno-precious. I'm trying to think of a less-cliche way of saying this, but the truth is: he thinks he's so cool but he's not.
Thanks for the astronaut link!
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note that he co-writes with his wife and she gets no byline. ever.
which she is fine with, apparently.
hm...
which she is fine with, apparently.
hm...
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"Not many writers have opened up extensively about their time at the New Yorker[.]"
...and that's a shame. Here a few people who have:
Jay McInerney (in Bright Lights, Big City)
James Thurber (in The Years with Ross)
Joyce Maynard (in At Home in the World)
...plus, whoever Tom Wolfe's sources were in his essay "Tiny Mummies!"
...and that's a shame. Here a few people who have:
Jay McInerney (in Bright Lights, Big City)
James Thurber (in The Years with Ross)
Joyce Maynard (in At Home in the World)
...plus, whoever Tom Wolfe's sources were in his essay "Tiny Mummies!"
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