Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake (disclaimer for benefit of my libertarian friends: this post is not about liberal politics) wrote on April 21st about Marcy Wheeler, linking to a FDL campaign to raise $150,000 so that Wheeler can set up shop as a full time writer with research support, a travel budget, etc., to continue breaking […]
Nancy linked today to a Salon article by Gary Kamiya on The Death of the News, which contains this wonderful quote on a future without the evil Mainstream Media as we know it: “It will be feast and famine: There will be far less primary reporting done by professionals and far more information available to […]
Today I am missing James Baldwin. I’d like to know what he would have to say about the rash of false memoirs, several of them Oprah-centric, starting with James Frey, and continuing today with the canceled publication of Herman Rosenblat’s wildly improbable–and as it turns out (tada!) untrue–Holocaust romance. Rosenblat got the book deal in […]
As I’m in high job-hunting mode, I have spent a fair bit of time poring over job listings on Media Bistro, Craigslist and the like, and am noticing a disturbing trend. Yesterday, I read an ad for an editor job that listed “dog owner” as a prerequisite. Today I saw an ad for a technology […]
I have an article just out on the online women’s magazine Tango, on The Myth of the Male Orgasm. It’s about the little-discussed fact that men sometimes fake it, too. That, and how not all men are quite as orgasm-driven in their sexuality as we like to think. Many thanks to Carol Queen of the […]
I’m glad to have the opportunity to keep my hand in as a book reviewer for the LA Weekly from time to time. I recently had the pleasure of reviewing Sex For America, an erotica collection edited by Stephen Elliot. (I love the illustration by Jason Levesque that accompanies the review.)
One of my favorite stories […]
I have an architecture story in the current issue of Sactown, my first for this groovy publication that is less than a year old. It feels like a big city mag, and they fact check with the rigor of The New Yorker, which is always a good measure of the quality of a publication. I […]