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By Kat Stoeffel 6/08/12 9:00am

Stephen Colbert Loves Slate Podcasts So Much

Does this count as breaking character? Stephen Colbert is such a huge fan of Slate’s Gabfest podcast that he once called editor David Plotz to ask why an episode was late, according to a Nieman piece on the economics of podcasting from earlier this week. (Mr. Colbert had previously showed his hand when he called Read More

By Tom Bissell 8/25/10 12:23am

From Tragedy to Trend Story: In Defense of Virginia Quarterly Review Editor Ted Genoways

On July 30, Kevin Morrissey, the managing editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review, one of America’s most respected and ascendant literary journals, took his own life, apparently unable to abide the pressures of his job. His suicide has since opened a debate on the issue of “workplace bullying” and called into question the Read More

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Stephen Colbert Loves Slate Podcasts So Much

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