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Help preserve and improve journalism in the Internet age. Apply to work with Josh Benton on the Nieman Foundation’s Digital Journalism Project.
Help preserve and improve journalism in the Internet age. Apply to work with Josh Benton on the Nieman Foundation’s Digital Journalism Project.
Last week Levi Stahl of I’ve Been Reading Lately ran a delightful series of excerpts from writers’ letters. Selections ranged from the chatty, catty, and caustic to the bereft but self-deprecating. His series was inspired by the publication of Penelope Fitzgerald’s letters (image above), and correspondence with writer Jenny Davidson. Coincidentally, Stahl and I recently exchanged some email about . . .
Take an interactive tour of literary Boston, from Henry Adams to H.P. Lovecraft & Elizabeth Bishop, courtesy of the Globe.
Tina Brown’s web venture, The Daily Beast, takes its name from Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop. I’m excited.
Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish has died. VQR posts “With the Mist So Dense on the Bridge,” the title poem of his last collection.