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Posted by Brendan Kiley on Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:56 PM
First we had It's Not in the P-I, a play in the form of a newspaper (and sort of vice-versa). This week, Dave Eggers is publishing the latest issue of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern as a 300-page newspaper. Not to mention the fifth and final newspaper-centric season of The Wire.
Theater, literary journals, and TV: Now that newspapers are on their way down—and are no longer perceived as propaganda for the military-industrial complex or megaphones for megalomaniacs or whatever—they're suddenly more appealing playmates and source material.
Does this count as slumming?
Not that I mind. I'm just curious.
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The newspaper angle was mostly weak, partly because it was just there as a fuck-you from David Simon to the Baltimore Sun, but a lot of cool shee-it happened in that season as well.
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