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...help to explain the insanity that is the media's coverage of Zippergate. As Clinton Press Secretary Mike McCurry noted, "the press has but one speed on this story and it's fast forward with too few editors who press the pause button." In a realm where the impatient reader can download the relevant information (say, the Starr report) within minutes of its release, the multimedia corporations live and die based on whether they can attract consumers quickly and refer them to the other resources and media outlets they...
...better reason than because it matters to you more than any other," Salinger tells her. "You'll simply write what's real and true." Maybe this is it. But where Salinger, or many a better writer, would have fictionalized his truths, opening up new universes for the reader, Maynard sheds no light on anything beyond the little spotlight she is standing in. She had a complicated childhood, a shattering love affair, a complicated adulthood. Join the club, kiddo, as Salinger himself might...
...stint as editor in chief of Marie Claire, Fuller cut back on text and made the emphasis on sex even more pointed, increasing newsstand sales 8% during her tenure. Defending her taste, Fuller explains, "I do what I think will tighten the bond between the magazine and the reader...
Barnicle, a beloved, tough-guy metro columnist for the past 25 years, was suspended by the paper after a reader noticed that many of the gags in an Aug. 2 column seemed to be thinly disguised versions of material in Carlin's best-selling 1997 book, Brain Droppings. Barnicle claimed he'd never read the book and got the jokes from a bartender friend. "I had a friend familiar with the Internet, and we came up with all kinds of hits for every one of those jokes," Barnicle claims. "They're just out there floating...
...writers seem to spend a lot of time discussing universal themes, but sometimes their voices come through so much that it becomes impossible to identify with them; their experience seems too personal, too individual, to make sense to the reader. Others, however, manage to pull the reader quickly into their lives and by the end it is impossible to escape the feeling that some of these writers are close friends one has known for years. The universality of themes is fascinating, especially as it is often split among gender lines. Writing about life defining experiences, the women essayists tend...