I logged into Harpers Magazine online to be able to send the article about Salka Viertel to my nephew Mark and I also sent it to Svetlana Schrieber. The Harpers site was still up another day and I happened on a review of George Packer's book about the diplomat Richard Holbrook, a critical review about what a not too notable diplomat who was not a nice person. The reviewer was a guy named Rieff, who has also written some interesting sounding books. One was about historical memory, as a factor that leads to feelings of national solidarity and also to resentments which can lead to violence. I looked him up on Wikipedia and found he was Susan Sontag's son, who wrote a memoir about her months dying of cancer. I'm interested in reading more of what he's written.
This morning I was on twitter and came across Anand Ghiridaradas talking about his new tv show on the cable channel Vice, called Seat at the Table. There was a link to watch the first episode, which I showed to V, but it didn't play very well on that link after his monologue for the first 14 minutes. Maybe we can see it on youtube, or find it on the Vice channel Wednesday night.
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Saturday, September 24, 2011
Dave Koehler is an interesting congressional candidate
I've had a couple of opportunities to meet Illinois 17th District Congressional Candidate Dave Koehler in the past month. He represents three counties in the State Senate, and owns the Peoria Bread Company with his wife, Nora Sullivan, a nurse and teacher at Methodist College of Nursing in Peoria. Dave has worked as a part-time United Church of Christ minister, a vocation he took on under the influence of his father, who was also a minister. He was the director of the Labor-Management Council, and is so well-respected from his work there that he has the endorsements of many business people and labor unions.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The Deal from Hell: a book about the merger of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times
At the library yesterday, I saw a new book about how the owners have killed the newspapers, written by James O'Shea, who experienced the "merger" of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times. Part of the story is the decline of journalistic standards. Here's a review of it from the LA Times.
The former Los Angeles Times editor in chief examines the Tribune-Times Mirror and Sam Zell deals.
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