Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The California painter and critic Manny Farber extolled “termite art” as occurring “where the spotlight of culture is nowhere in evidence, so that the craftsman can be ornery, wasteful, stubbornly self-involved, doing go-for-broke art and not caring what comes of it.” That need for art to be ugly, to go where it is not wanted,…
The New York Times is again looking to fashion to amplify its own brand. As part of a marketing push around Earth Day, the publisher is teaming with Everlane for a small collection of T-shirts and sweatshirts that riff on its ongoing “The Truth Is Worth It” campaign, but with an environmental twist. Everlane is…
googleon: all A single tariff benefiting one paper factory in Washington state could prompt the loss of thousands of U.S. newspaper jobs, industry executives say. line 459 The ripple effect started with One Rock Capital Partners, a New York private equity firm that bought a paper mill in Longview, Wash., and then petitioned the Trump…
New York Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote an exceptionally stupid column this weekend criticizing the newspaper’s sports section. The Times sports department is notable in that it mostly devotes its resources to investigations and distinctive reporting about a wide array of sports and the athletes who play them, rather than publishing straight gamers off…
By Erin M. Kearns, Allison Betus and Anthony Lemieux By Erin M. Kearns, Allison Betus and Anthony Lemieux March 13 at 6:00 AM President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on Feb. 28 as Vice President Pence and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan applaud. (Pool photo by Jim Lo Scalzo via AP) At his…
You Can be ‘Quite a Ridiculous Figure’: Michael Wolff Rips Stelter for Lecturing on ‘Virtues of the Media’ Please enable Javascript to watch. During an at times contentious exchange today on CNN’s Reliable Sources, The Hollywood Reporter columnist Michael Wolff criticized host Brian Stelter over the style and approach Stelter has taken of late on…
The planned Women’s March may be gearing up to be one of the biggest inauguration weekend protests ever, but there’s clearly still some education that needs to happen before January 21. Washington Post’s magazine Express had a bit of a snafu on Thursday, when their cover story about the march showed a ring of what…
close story-meta Times Insider shares historical insights from The New York Times. Photo In 1960, copy desks were shaped like horseshoes, with editors seated around the rim and their supervisors in the slot in the middle. Desks have changed, but the roles of the rim and the slot remain. Credit The New York Times Times…