You know publishing’s in rough straits when employees have this for away messages:

With the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ceasing print publication on March 17, I am out of the office forever.

Ouch.  Thank goodness (?) I’m not ambitious enough to be a journalist!

My boss is out sick today.  With everyone else out on vacation in Publicity, too bad I can’t be either.  I woke up this morning feeling like my throat was made of shards of glass.  Pleasant it is not.

So far though, I am enjoying being a pseudo-assistant in Publicity-although it’s a bit surreal because two months ago I was submitting drafts of ( Read more... )

 
It makes me grumpy when I'm on a book slump.  I'm reading stuff, but I haven't been really engaged in it lately.

Which leads me to my question for the day:  how do you find your books?  Where's an interesting place you've gotten a book rec?

I like to sneak glances at whatever books people are reading on the subway.  Of course one in five people ( Read more... )

 
End of the internship

My last day was actually a bit bittersweet.  Interning for four months seems paltry in comparison to people who've been working at places for years, but to me, it sure felt like a long time.  To think--I started exactly on Halloween last fall!  The weeks seem to have slipped by.  Even before I started, I suppose I was afraid ( Read more... )

Hey dunemanic , have you seen this:   Star Wars as Classic Art?  I’m particularly fond of Yoda-as-Van Gogh, and Princess Leia as the Girl with a Pearl Earring (next page, I think) haha. 
Today’s my last day at my internship.  Maybe I should feel more sentimental, but right now I just feel a crazy combo of exhausted/hyper because I got home at 2am last night ( Read more... )

I’ve always thought constant Facebook status updates are silly.  Maybe not content-wise, since it’s kind of cool to see what your friends are up to, but the fact that’s it’s broadcasted to literally everyone you know.  I don’t mind my good friends knowing stuff, but when I’ve started to friend work friends, older relatives, and more adults (oh the ( Read more... )

The start of my last rotation in the Editorial Department has been....hmm, just okay so far.  Contrary to my original expectations, nothing really gripping or flat-out overwhelming.  Sometimes, I find myself wishing I were back to the unrelenting pace of Publicity!  But I think that's because it's been only three days into the rotation, and I think ( Read more... )

 I'm done being the Publicity intern!!

Well, hang on a sec.  I still have a ton of loose-ends to tie up--like last minute books to send--and major training to do for the next intern after me but...

in theory, I'm done.  YAY

I really like the work I did in Publicity.  It kept me busy, but busy in an engaged way.  Although there was always a ton of ( Read more... )

 I am so tired of the biting, freezing, miserable cold.  I walk outside and I can't get warm anymore.  It's like my legs are perpetually cold.  Yet as cold as I am, every time I groggily stare at my closet in the morning, in an attempt to figure out what to wear, I almost don't want to wear another sweater.

Old Man Winter, GO AWAY.  You're ( Read more... )

Submersion Journalism, Edited by Bill Wasik

There’s a crippling yet invisible disease afflicting America, reports Roger Hodge, the editor of Harper’s Magazine.  During George W. Bush’s impossibly long reign as President, America has become no longer America.  Torture, for one, has become “official government policy.”  The Department of Justice ( Read more... )