Category Archives: Rants

Let’s See, Now… What Else Can We Outsource?

It was probably arrogant and short-sighted of me to think journalism would ever be spared from the outsourcing wave. I’m all for emerging economies, but this is beyond bullshit. A publisher in Pasadena hired two journalists in India to cover city council meetings via the web. It’s only costing him about $20k. I don’t like [...]

Maybe We Should Just Stop

Book and lit blog, BookFox (which I just discovered from my logs of links to this site) has a post about literary journals and their response times. I quote: I’ll have a tiny journal like Apple Valley Review reject my short shorts in less than a week, while a heavy hitter like Columbia Journal still [...]

Confessions of an Unpublished Mind

Now that things are under way at After the MFA, it’s only fair to come clean about something. Unless you count my high school literary journal — of which I happened to be editor-in-chief — I have never been published in a literary journal or magazine. Wait. Before you drop your laptop on the ground [...]