July 19, 2018

The East Bay Express: Where #MeToo met up with #WhiteLivesMatter. Welcome to the sad, sad story of Stephen Buel, erstwhile publisher of the Express, an Oakland-based weekly newspaper specializing in investigative journalism… Read more »

journalism

Is young adult literature too dark? — Alyssa Monera
The New York Daily News slashes its newsroom in half, calling into question the future of local news — Alex Primiani
Chance the Rapper raps about owning the local news site Chicagoist, which happens to be fact — Alex Primiani
Cover the White House? This professor wishes journalists would prefer not to. — Francesca Capossela

The Ballad of the Sad Walt Whitman Residence

Ian Dreiblatt

In the beautiful American city of Brooklyn, near the Navy Yards and the future location of what will be the five boroughs’ first Wegman’s (we await you all breathless, o noblest grocery chain), between the crook… Read more »

Literary hotels make for great latter-half-of-summer vacays

Michael Barron

Raise your hand if you’ve ever wanted to board in some swanky library suite or bookstore nook. Well, now you kind of can. Literary hotels are beginning to pop up… Read more »

The Labo and the library

Michael Seidlinger

Have you heard of Nintendo’s latest bold interactive experiment, Labo? Like most Nintendo innovations, it breaks down into amazingly simple ingredients that, when combined, become something else entirely. In Labo’s… Read more »

Melville House Books

The East Bay Express’s publisher resigns

Susan Rella