inDepth: The E-Reader Boom Begins
Christmas 2010 was on the horizon and bestselling author Stephen Leather had a plan. The scuttlebutt around the internet said that the Amazon Kindle was about to break huge. Like iPod huge. With a...
View ArticleinDepth: The E-Reader Boom Continues
While established authors have certainly gotten their fair share of the attention during the transition of e-readers into the mainstream marketplace, the real media darlings of the self-publishing...
View ArticleinDepth, Part 1: Respect, Privacy & David Foster Wallace
Two Minutes From the Charlie Rose Show, March 17th, 1997, Guest: David Foster Wallace “Respect means a lot to you,” the esteemed talk show host says. “A sense that ‘I’m taken seriously and I’m...
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inDepth, Part 2: Respect, Privacy & David Foster Wallace
The reception of his posthumously released The Pale King in 2011 seems to have been foretold by David Foster Wallace’s appearance on the Charlie Rose Show in 1997: If one were to go only by the elegiac...
View ArticleinDepth: Is the iPad the Magazine Industry’s Knight in Shining Armor? (Part 1)
Within weeks of the release of Apple’s first iPad in 2010, business and technology pundits alike were already making lofty predictions about the miracle device’s curative prowess. In this way, the kid...
View ArticleinDepth: Is the iPad the Magazine Industry’s Knight in Shining Armor? (Part 2)
inDepth continues its look at the impact of tablets on the magazine industry. Did you read Part 1 about how tablets entered the magazine world? According to the Publisher’s Information Bureau, the...
View ArticleinTouch: Rupert Murdoch, Proof that Criminal Behavior is Bad Business
This week’s Rupert Murdoch and News of the World hoopla sure has made for some interesting meta-theatre. Rarely, if ever, has the journalistic community had the opportunity to be so unabashedly...
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Hard Case Crime: Atavism as a Labor of Love
Charles Ardai fancies himself as something of an atavist. Indeed, as the editor of Hard Case Crime, the pulp enthusiast makes his living recreating relics—seedy, dissolute genre fiction steeped in...
View ArticleinRetrospect: Flannery O’Connor
In the preface to his short story collection, Bagombo Snuff Box, author Kurt Vonnegut laid out his Eight Rules to Creative Writing. Staying true to form, he tempered the extent of his literary cachet...
View ArticleThe Steve Jobs Biography: 3 Things We Want it to Discuss
inReaders: Please note that this piece originally ran on October 3rd, prior to the passing of Steve Jobs. We invite you to also read our tribute here. In terms of melancholy timing and unabashed...
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