Et Tu, Atlantic?

Fiction has been disappearing from the pages of the glossies (prestige magazines) for years. Then the New York Times Book Review announced that it was going to devote less space to discussing fiction. The latest salvo is the announcement that The Atlantic is going to stop publishing fiction on a monthly basis, according to The New York Times.

The Atlantic Monthly magazine, which in its nearly 150-year history was among the first to publish short works of fiction by Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Henry James and Sue Miller, is eliminating the regular publication of fiction from its pages, according to a letter from the magazine’s editors in the May issue. The change, the editors say, is to allow for more space to be devoted to "long-form narrative reporting."

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Et Tu, Atlantic?

Fiction has been disappearing from the pages of the glossies (prestige magazines) for years. Then the New York Times Book Review announced that it was going to devote less space to discussing fiction. The latest salvo is the announcement that The Atlantic is going to stop publishing fiction on a monthly basis, according to The New York Times.

The Atlantic Monthly magazine, which in its nearly 150-year history was among the first to publish short works of fiction by Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Henry James and Sue Miller, is eliminating the regular publication of fiction from its pages, according to a letter from the magazine’s editors in the May issue. The change, the editors say, is to allow for more space to be devoted to "long-form narrative reporting."

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A Pocketful of Film

In a SportsShooter.com column, Robert Hanashiro asks: "Don’t you miss the days when we went to a game with just a Nikkormat, a 105 and a pocketful of Tri-X?" As an amateur photographer, that’s the way I felt this past week covering the NIT finals and semi-finals for a University of South Carolina (USC)  fanzine. The last time I covered college basketball was more than 15 years ago, when I only had a 50mm lens and Tri-X; standing next to the Sports Illustrated photographer and his long lenses gave me a chuckle. I also remember being on the floor when a brawl broke out between Louisville and USC.

My equipment was not far better this week, especially during Tuesday’s semi-finals game (although I have finally turned digital). It is good to work on assignments where the lighting conditions are more challenging. I learned my lesson and had a "faster" lens for Thursday’s finals, where I got to see my alma mater take home its first banner in many years.

Look for Robert’s photo series of the Utah State women’s basketball team for USA Today.

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VC Undead

As part of the renewed activity in venture capital, The Economist notes a revival in technology and venture capital related publications. The magazine also wonders if we are seeing a dead cat bounce.

It is too early
to say whether the flush environment heralds another tech investment
bubble, but there are echoes of the dotcom boom. Red Herring, a once-weighty technology magazine, reappeared last autumn under new ownership. AlwaysOn Network,
a website on technology and media, is publishing a quarterly magazine.
Tech conferences are proliferating again, particularly in Europe. Technology Review,
a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has
recently unveiled two monthly stock indices covering 150 firms, as a
“gauge on the pulse of innovation”.