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I really don't give a crap about celebrities. This isn't a new thought, from me or anyone else. But I had this particular ep...

In order to pursue my Goodreads challenge this year (a target of 20 books, with a self-imposed limit of  books written by women ), I negle...

I am planning a couple of posts about the newsletter, Writers Ask  (WA), published by Glimmer Train Press. I am describing it a little, ...

Due to our ongoing septic problems, I've been going to the laundromat a lot this summer. I like watching families doing their laundry...

The following interview was 23 years in the making. In 1988, while taking a graduate-level journalism course at UNC-Chapel Hill, I intervi...

 AVSM Flashback is a new and occasional feature in which I'll reconnect with the people who once appeared in the pages of my publication...

I thought that zines were dead — or, at least, had mostly migrated to the Web — until I happened to visit Internationalist Books in downtow...

Anyone who really knows me understands that I am not the biggest fan of the Christmas season. I dislike the annual frenzied, consumer-driven...

In case you didn't see it a few days ago, The Colbert Report vividly described the last, desperate option available to the magazine indu...

As my daughter and I stood in line at the grocery store yesterday, facing a display of magazines including Us , People , and The National En...

I failed to mention one of my favorite features in Smithsonian Magazine in my June 25th post : The Last Page, a one-page humorous essay that...

Those who are regular readers of this blog may have noticed that I've been referencing Smithsonian magazine in recent posts. The reason...

In the early 90s, when I was working at the U.S. General Accounting Office, I sometimes brought a bag lunch from home and took it down to th...