San Franciscans are pleased with their bold taste in opera, suggests a piece in today's San Francisco Chronicle.
Reviewing a telecast of the Met's controversial restaging of Tosca—the one greeted with loud booing in September—Joshua Kosman deems New Yorkers "a big bunch of weenies":
Seriously, this is what passes for a Read More
Issue 33 of McSweeney's--a one-time-only newspaper called the Panorama designed to demonstrate the fun things ink and paper can do--will be released in a couple weeks. The San Francisco Chronicle rehashes this news today, and gets comments from some non-Dave Eggers people involved in the production of print journalism.
It seems old Read More
The 33rd issue of McSweeney's Quarterly will be packaged as the San Francisco Panorama, a made-up newspaper that Eggers et al hope to distribute on the streets of the city as well as sending to subscribers. According to a preview posted today:
It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) Read More
How much worse can things get for journalists?
Newspapers and magazines are closing; the ones that remain grow thinner by the week as if somehow cursed; freelance budgets are being slashed and staffers accustomed to taking it easy are being forced to write like their livelihoods depend on it. (Hint: They do.) The only thing Read More
Rising Up and Rising Down , by William T. Vollmann. McSweeney's, 3,298 pages, $120.
If you're so inclined, you can probably go ahead and tell people you've read William Vollmann's latest, a spry, seven-volume, 3,298-page examination of the ethical justifications for violence. You'll probably get away with it-unless, that is, you end up talking to Read More
