Critical Mass
One reason reading for pleasure is particularly appealing these days is that it's so counter-culture, says
Jerome Weeks -- "so counter to our prevailing techno-bully-rapid-response-profit-margin mindset. It's seditious fun being idle, being un-productive." The former Dallas Morning News book critic writes in a farewell column that the Belo paper never published: "So yes, being a book columnist is one of the last, great gigs in the grumpy, panicked world of newspaperdom. But although print journalism and books are far from gone, this little corner of them is. Just now, there was room for my big feet on my desk because it's been cleared off."
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NOTE TO EX-DMN STAFFERS: I'm interested in posting your unpublished farewell pieces. Send them to
jromenesko@poynter.org.
