Category: Blog Stuff
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This week, the New York Times Magazine became ‘Book Review and Magazine’
100 years ago this week, the New York Times combined their previously-separate Magazine and Book Review sections into one larger section on Sundays. If any history buffs or NYT aficionados know why they made this change, please feel free to comment below or send me a message. The Times didn’t seem to explain why anywhere else in the Sunday, June 27, […]
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SundayMagazine.org will take three weeks off, because NYT Sunday Magazine did the same in February-March 1920
On February 21, 1920, New York Times readers were greeted with this message: The magazine’s hiatus didn’t last too long, only three weeks, returning on March 7. Albeit in a diminished form, as the editors warned, with fewer articles than before. Coming exactly 100 years ago to the week that America’s second-largest newspaper chain McClatchy filed […]
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SundayMagazine.org will take four months off, because NYT Sunday Magazine did the same in late 1918
Earlier this month, I noticed that the New York Times issues 100 years ago to the week no longer seemed to include a Sunday magazine section. Since the whole premise of this website is to analyze those magazine articles with some historical context and/or contemporary commentary, this presented a problem for me and my readers. Skipping ahead […]
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My column in the Daily Beast: “Not Much Passes the 100-Year Test. Will Trump?”
In my time running SundayMagazine.org, it’s become increasingly apparent to me and my readers just how few of the most prominent people, places, and things from 100 years ago are still well remembered tgoday. What does this insight reveal about who and what from this era might still be well remembered 100 years from now? My prediction: despite how […]
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How much WWI took over everyone’s lives
American entry into World War I “started” 100 years ago plus a few months ago, in April 1917. One thing that’s really striking to me is just how much it overtook everything about people’s lives. In working on this week’s entries for Sunday Magazine, here were the magazine headlines from New York Times Sunday Magazine […]
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Sunday Magazine has resumed after a nearly five-year hiatus!
David Friedman created this website in March 2010 and ran it until September 2011 until he had a child and couldn’t keep this up with his busy schedule anymore. I’m not David Friedman. I’m Jesse Rifkin and I have David’s permission to take over this blog for a while, posting every week with interesting articles […]
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SundayMagazine.org Is Going On Hiatus
Hi, everyone. I’m afraid I have some bad news: SundayMagazine.org is going on hiatus. The time requirements to maintain all my projects and take care of my new child have spread me a little too thin, so I had to pick something to take a break from, and SundayMagazine lost the coin toss. If anyone […]
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Important Note About SundayMagazine.org’s Future
I have two important notes about this blog’s future. 1) Due to a minor change in the RSS feed, some of you who read this blog via RSS may need to resubscribe. If you are currently subscribed to the feed at http://feeds.feedburner.com/sundaymagazine please redirect your RSS Reader to http://atomic-temporary-205698352.wpcomstaging.com/feed or just click here. The old […]
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SundayMagazine on Slate.com
I wrote a piece about SundayMagazine for Slate.com that just went online today. If you’re discovering this site for the first time via Slate, welcome! A good place to start is with my roundup of favorite articles from 1910. If you’re a regular reader who’s never read Slate, start with my article!
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Mixing things up a little
Based on feedback I’ve received from readers, I’m going to experiment a little bit over the next few weeks with the timing of posts. When an issue of the Sunday Magazine has several especially interesting or long articles, or when there are just a lot of articles to publish that week, I will post some […]
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