Yesterday on Salon, Sarah Hepola profiled writer Chuck Klosterman for the release of his first novel, Downtown Owl.
After hashing out Mr. Klosterman’s rise from obscurity to admired and derided cultural critic, Ms. Hepola writes:
But Chuck Klosterman seems to be getting a little sick of Chuck Klosterman. Even his most Read More
David Carr must be one busy man this month. In an interview with Salon’s Andrew O’Herir, Mr. Carr, The New York Times media columnist and author of the recently released book, The Night of Gun, says that he "got 1,200 e-mails when an excerpt of the book ran in The New York Times Read More
Today on Salon, Sarah Bird pens a humor piece in which she wishes her son were gay.
With palpable yearning, Ms. Bird writes:
How could I not dream of having a son who cared deeply about all the right things: fashion, musical theater, interior décor? But mostly a son who cared deeply about the Read More
Yesterday, Salon published a piece by writer Neal Pollack about his experiences with this year’s moral panic-inspiring quasi-legal drug, salvia divinorum, in a piece called Confessions of a Salvia Eater.
Fans of Mr. Pollack will no doubt enjoy his description of what he saw on the other side:
I put the salvia in Read More
Salon’s Vincent Rossmeier has an interview with Kerwin Swint, biographer of Fox news Godfather Roger Ailes. Mr. Swint, a Professor of Political Science Kennesaw State University, says he "couldn’t believe that no one had written a book on him yet. He’s been such a central figure for so long."
In 2003, The Read More
Yesterday on Fox News—America’s Election HQ!—Megyn Kelly interviewed Fox News contributor and New Yorker profile rejecter Michelle Malkin about potential First Lady Michelle Obama. During the course of her echo chamber-like criticism of Ms. Obama (that’s not a metaphor: someone should’ve checked Ms. Malkin’s mic before putting her on air), Ms. Malkin said, Read More
Politico has hired Salon senior writer Tim Grieve to become their new Congressional bureau chief. According to a memo sent out this morning by Jim VandeHei, Mr. Grieve "is a terrific writer, editor and conceptual thinker." Over at Salon, he ran The War Room blog.
Gawker catches Salon in an embarrassing (and pretty funny) gaffe: The online mag recently got in touch with "some of their favorite experts and opinion-makers" and asked for their thoughts on the presidential race. But in trying to contact Savage Love writer and all-around alt-weekly bigshot Dan Savage, they accidentally contacted Read More
We had the same thought as New York magazine when we saw this front-page New York Times story by Adam Nagourney on the abortive Hillary-Rudy Senate race of 2000: Didn’t Salon write that story yesterday?
Actually, the duelling pieces raise a broader issue. Given the pace of modern-day campaign coverage, and the Read More
