Yesterday a ruptured oil pipeline in Nigeria exploded, killing 265 people. In the latest Virginia Quarterly Review, due out next week, we have an awesome article by John Ghazvinian explaining how this happened — why people tap into pipelines, what’s done with the oil, and why it’s so dangerous. We’ve made the piece available to …
Category Archives: Work
The decline and fall of the Washington Star.
The Washington Star was D.C.’s newspaper of record for 129 years until it folded in 1981. In that period it won ten Pulitzers, and its staff included Michael Isikoff, Fred Barnes, Maureen Dowd, and Howard Kurtz. Check out Edwin Yoder’s Autumn 1993 VQR article about his time as the Star‘s editorial page editor in the …
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The relationship between the president and the media.
From the Virginia Quarterly Review archives, back in spring 2000: “Why the Media Love Presidents and Presidents Hate the Media.”
One-to-one SQL join from among the many?
I have two tables in MySQL. One of them (let’s say, for the purpose of simplicity) is a listing of books. The other is a listing of reviews of those books along with a 1-5 ranking. Each book may have 0 or more reviews. It’s your standard one-to-many relationship. However, I want to have a …
VQR press coverage.
I’ve enjoyed following all of the coverage of the big wins chalked up by Virginia Quarterly Review (my employer) at Tuesday night’s National Magazine Awards. These are some of the highlights. Advertising Age: The Cinderella story of the evening was The Virginia Quarterly Review, which won both for general excellence and for fiction. Editor Ted …
VQR takes home a pair of Ellies.
My employer, Virginia Quarterly Review, has won big at tonight’s National Magazine Awards. VQR pulled off the noteworthy feat of winning two awards, including The Big One: General Excellence. Ted Genoways did some fine speaking up on the stage at Lincoln Center this evening, making up for the interminably long walk from his seat in …
VQR’s curious stats.
Using Mint, I keep a close eye on the traffic on my various websites. Out of an interest in open source software, I’ve watched Firefox’s market share creep up on my various websites in the past few months. At nancies.org, the browser shares pretty much represent what I think is true nationally — 72% Internet …
VQR: Six National Magazine Awards nominations.
Virginia Quarterly Review, my employer, has big news on the blog today: Wow! Everyone in our office has been trying not to hyperventilate. The finalists for the 2006 National Magazine Awards (the magazine world’s equivalent to the Pulitzers or the National Book Awards) were announced today and VQR garnered six nominations! Pretty unheard of for …
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“The Old Man and the Sea,” a distinctly minor work.
I’m working on rather a large project for Virginia Quarterly Review that entails looking through many of the issues produced in the publication’s eighty-year history. I must admit that I sometimes become distracted by the contents of the articles themselves, which often are not just interesting on their own, but doubly so in the context …
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VQR blog.
At The Virginia Quarterly Review, we’ve just launched my first publicly-visible contribution to the venerable publication’s internet presence: The Virginia Quarterly Review Blog. There are very few literature blogs out there, with the best (IMHO) being Bookslut, followed by GalleyCat and then a bunch of others. (I haven’t yet adjusted to MobyLives‘ new podcasting format.) …