Monthly Archives: November 2009

Do Journalists Conference Too Much about Journalism?

Posted on 11 November 2009 by

[New Haven Advocate] It’s shaping up to be a busy (and alt-weekly-ish) day around here. In this week’s New Haven Advocate, I’ve got a short piece that previews this weekend’s big journalism conference at Yale. (Full program here [.pdf].) The … Continue reading →

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Speaking in Dialects

Posted on 6 November 2009 by

[x-posted at The Rumpus] Tim Monich has five times as many IMDB credits as Jason Schwartzman, but we know for whom Brooklyn tolls. This week’s New Yorker profile of Monich won’t change that, of course, but it does offer a riveting … Continue reading →

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In Which I Accidentally Answer My Own Question

Posted on 3 November 2009 by

Last Friday, in a short essay for The Millions, I tried to call attention to an egregiously overlooked essay by Lewis Hyde on copyright and the Founding Fathers. I spent most of the time summarizing and quoting from Hyde, but … Continue reading →

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