Middle-to-highbrow journalism news, good and bad
The Washington Post announced this week that it would stop publishing Book World as a separate section, causing some consternation in the literary world -- though Post editors say they remain committed to publishing reviews and reportage about the world of letters. Meanwhile, Culture11, a would-be conservative competitor of Slate, abruptly folded.
The Week, a smart digest of stuff published elsewhere -- parasitical but useful and witty -- launched a new online opinion section, "The Bullpen," that's getting some attention. (Look on the right rail of the homepage.) And the conservative writer David Frum's latest venture, Newmajority.com, which aspires to be a sort of Talking Points Media for non-hidebound conservatives -- a place where the Right can hash out how to get its mojo back -- is up and running. It debuted, appropriately enough, on the day President Obama took office.
