Category Archives: All History is Local History

The Real (Literary) America

Posted on 4 March 2010 by

[The Millions] Over at The Millions, you’ll find my “dispatch from the Borders-land,” where, basically, I ask a bunch of shoppers about their relationship to books. Lit blogs tend to take an isolated view of the literary world, and I … Continue reading →

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Obviously

Posted on 27 January 2010 by

Earlier tonight, I appeared on WICC’s “Talk of the Town,” where Jim Buchanan interviewed me about my story on the Cheshire case and Brian McDonald’s book. Click here to listen to an mp3. This was my first radio interview, and … Continue reading →

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Cheshire’s Library Controversy

Posted on 27 January 2010 by

[New Haven Advocate] In this week’s Advocate, I’ve got a story on Brian McDonald’s In the Middle of the Night, a true-crime take on the horrific Cheshire home-invasion case from a few years back. The story ended up focusing on … Continue reading →

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N.B.

Posted on 30 December 2009 by

[New Haven Advocate] Good news about the media is rare, and, when it occurs, it’s tempting to just nod and slowly back away. That’s basically what happened when Michael Schroeder rescued several small-town Connecticut newspapers in 2008. The New York … Continue reading →

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A Brief History of the Mall Kiosk

Posted on 27 November 2009 by

[Slate's The Big Money / The Washington Post] We all avoid mall kiosks, and we also ignore them. If they pop up in print, it’s generally in a cornball book of get-rich schemes, right next to collecting baseball cards and … Continue reading →

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