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Brothers in Arms
"It's really easy to get killed in Iraq," says Phillip Robertson, a freelancer who covered the war for Salon and wrote the introduction to the book Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the...
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Reality Plus
The last time The New Yorker's George Packer was in Iraq was January 2007. He's not sure if he wants to go back, but that doesn't mean it's not on his mind. "I do find myself thinking about it all the...
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Generation Kill: Required, But Punishing Viewing
Critics who got an early look at Generation Kill, the new HBO miniseries about the first 40 days of the Iraq war created by Wire masterminds David Simon and Ed Burns, were treated to more than the...
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At Magazines, It’s 2.0 Steps Forward, 1.0 Step Back
Soon after Lehman Brothers fell, and New York business writers found themselves smack in the middle of the biggest story of their careers, Fortune’s managing editor, Andy Serwer, convened a staff...
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You Won’t Have Kristol to Kick Around Anymore
Bill Kristol's column for The New York Times has come to an end. Today's installment of his year-old Op-Ed column ends with a curt note that reads, "This is William Kristol’s last column." From the...
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Please Kill Fee Me: The Scary Rise of Celebrity Journalism Dilettantes
How much worse can things get for journalists? Newspapers and magazines are closing; the ones that remain grow thinner by the week as if somehow cursed; freelance budgets are being slashed and staffers...
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Literati Gathers Around a Big Dinosaur at PEN Literary Gala, Perhaps...
The American Museum of Natural History was occupied by writers, editors, and agents on Tuesday night, April 28, for the PEN Foundation’s annual black-tie gala. During the pre-dinner cocktail hour in...
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Dr. Ramadan Returns: Packer and Weisberg Man Panel
An eager audience filled Cooper Union's Great Hall last night as Jacob Weisberg, Slate Group's chair, moderated "Secularism, Islam & Democracy," a panel featuring Professor Tariq Ramadan, the...
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The New Yorker’s George Packer Shuns iPhone, Twitter
Romenesko was nice enough to post the outtakes from Poynter Online's interview with New Yorker staffer George Packer in which he reveals his "5 Tips for Reporting on Anything." Packer handled the Iraq...
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Things Fall Apart: In ‘The Unwinding,’ George Packer Aims for Dos Passos,...
George Packer. Around the turn of page 266 of The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, when I was about to be late for my day job, I had an unusually vivid daydream. I was at some literary...
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Vodka, Ativan, Hipster Boots: Gary Shteyngart’s Guide to Surviving a Book Party
Gary Shteyngart. (Photo courtesy of the PEN American Center) Gary Shteyngart was sipping a vodka tonic in a roomful of writers at PowerHouse Arena in Dumbo last night. It was a particularly cold...
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