You already realize I’m a bit of a science geek. But you may not know I’m also a history geek — not insufferably so, but I’m looking beyond what I thought I knew to find new insights. On my bedside table, along with my fiction books and books on how to not be a [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘saving newspapers’
September 30, 2008
How to Save Newspapers; or, lessons of the Giant Water Bug
How do I feel about the newspaper business these days?
I’m reminded of a scene in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, where the author Annie Dillard describes watching a frog that seemed fine, placidly sitting on a creek bank. As she watches, and within seconds, he is “shrinking before my eyes like a [...]
