Few surprises from the 2014 VIDA Count
Drum roll please. The 2014 VIDA Count has been revealed. Vida represents Women in Literary Arts and undertakes an annual survey to profile the gender (and now race) of contributors… Read more »
Harper’s runs “PBS Self-Destructs,” and PBS pulls ads
Democratic Massachusetts senator Ed Markey once said, “The problem is that once the debate on PBS begins, then Big Bird shows up and says, ‘Why are you trying to kill… Read more »
Hemingway estate says “No thanks” to Vanity Fair, “Yes” to Harper’s
Rejection doesn’t have to last forever. In the case of Hemingway and Vanity Fair, it only lasted 89 years. When young Ernest submitted “My Life in the Bull Ring with Donald… Read more »
What is the state of contemporary poetry?
Harriet reports on a series of essays and reactions to the question of what some call “the state of American poetry.” The present conversation began with Mark Edmunson’s “Poetry Slam:… Read more »
WAYBACK MACHINE: Women and The New Yorker
The internet is atwitter over the findings of the newest VIDA survey, which looked at the representation of “Women In Literary Arts” and found, once again, that things are far… Read more »
Harper’s includes Amazon in its “new network” of monopolies; major publishing CEO calls Amazon’s CEO “dangerous”
An essay in the February issue of Harper’s Magazine, “Killing the Competition: How the new monopolies are destroying open markets,” by Barry C. Lynn, includes Amazon in a growing list of… Read more »