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Archives for November 2009

Pod(cast) People

November 12, 2009

I’m a guest on this week’s installment of Digital Campus, a podcast hosted by Dan Cohen, Mills Kelly, and Tom Scheinfeldt of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The episode’s theme is “Publishers Bleakly”, and Dan, Mills, Tom, Josh Greenberg of the NYPL and I talk about some of the… Continue reading »

“The Singing Will Never Be Done”

November 11, 2009

Today is Armistice Day. It doesn’t seem appropriate to dwell here on how powerfully affecting I find the Great War and the poetry that came out of those bloody years. Instead I’ll point you to The First World War Poetry Archive, an amazing online collection of manuscripts, photos, and other artifacts and echoes of the… Continue reading »

Thanks for the Memoirs

November 10, 2009

Journalists are handed a lot of evidence that the world at large doesn’t think much of our trade. No-one seems to appreciate how selflessly we serve the greater good, what keen-eyed observers and trenchant analysts we are. So there we are, feeling all righteous and aggrieved, and then the news cycle coughs up a reminder… Continue reading »

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