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New in the Reader: the Mid-Week Read
Tomorrow: Alexander Theroux on his father – a decent life led by an “ordinary man”
Theroux wrote Holman around 2020 to tell the news that he was the father of a young child.
This coming Friday at 2 pm, the Weekend Read will be Margot Sheehan's "Lost Roads of San Diego."
We are running these examples of long-form journalism to help make up for the loss of the Reader's physical edition, which was once large enough to hold whole oceans of print. These stories will feature all the original illustrations and photos (plus easy-to-read typography), and will include new background information about the authors.
But many of the best stories are shorter, and we will post less lengthy pieces for the Mid-Week Read on Wednesdays. (Do our readers have less time mid-week?)
Tomorrow's Mid-Week Read is by novelist Alexander Theroux on his father, also the father of writers Paul and Peter Theroux.
Alexander Theroux, author of the novel Darconville's Cat and the non-fiction Primary Colors and Secondary Colors, wrote for the Reader 1995-1997 and included in his Reader work a defense of [click on defense for link] charges of plagiarism published in the New York Times.
Other stories Theroux wrote for the Reader:
A wanderer in a wasteland (Anza Borrego desert)
Oceanside's Prince of Peace Abbey
Richard Henry Dana in San Diego
Letters between Theroux and editor Jim Holman included:
From Theroux:
"I know you didn't like the monastery article finding it incomplete and preferring the autobiographical part to the actual presentation of the place; the fact is it's a small monastery of silent and, I thought, uncharacteristically melancholy men.... Please know that you don't have to accept any of these long pieces, Jim, not at all. I'm quite sure I could sell the TJ piece to National Geographic (for $9000, I have no doubt)...." Dec. 3, 1995
"I want badly, very badly to please you with my work...." Dec. 19, 1995
"....Are you ever going to let me write for the Reader again?" June 23, 1997
From Holman:
"I'm not mad at you. I admire your work. But the kind of work you do does not lend itself easily to what I need – very precise facticity, immersion in local trivia...." June 27, 1997
Theroux wrote Holman around 2020 to tell the news that he was the father of a young child (he would have been about 80 at that time) and did we have any writing he could do. Holman wrote back that our writer compensation was far lower than it had been in the 1990s.
^^^^^^
Last week's Weekend Read author, Laura McNeal, wrote a number of notable stories for the Reader. A few of the best:
What happened? A pioneer family's tragedy
The death of Judy Huscher
My life as a mammal
Diary of an orange grove
Here's something you might be interested in.
New in the Reader: the Mid-Week Read
Tomorrow: Alexander Theroux on his father – a decent life led by an “ordinary man”
New in the Reader: the Mid-Week Read
Tomorrow: Alexander Theroux on his father – a decent life led by an “ordinary man”
Theroux wrote Holman around 2020 to tell the news that he was the father of a young child.
This coming Friday at 2 pm, the Weekend Read will be Margot Sheehan's "Lost Roads of San Diego."
We are running these examples of long-form journalism to help make up for the loss of the Reader's physical edition, which was once large enough to hold whole oceans of print. These stories will feature all the original illustrations and photos (plus easy-to-read typography), and will include new background information about the authors.
But many of the best stories are shorter, and we will post less lengthy pieces for the Mid-Week Read on Wednesdays. (Do our readers have less time mid-week?)
Tomorrow's Mid-Week Read is by novelist Alexander Theroux on his father, also the father of writers Paul and Peter Theroux.
Alexander Theroux, author of the novel Darconville's Cat and the non-fiction Primary Colors and Secondary Colors, wrote for the Reader 1995-1997 and included in his Reader work a defense of [click on defense for link] charges of plagiarism published in the New York Times.
Other stories Theroux wrote for the Reader:
A wanderer in a wasteland (Anza Borrego desert)
Oceanside's Prince of Peace Abbey
Richard Henry Dana in San Diego
Letters between Theroux and editor Jim Holman included:
From Theroux:
"I know you didn't like the monastery article finding it incomplete and preferring the autobiographical part to the actual presentation of the place; the fact is it's a small monastery of silent and, I thought, uncharacteristically melancholy men.... Please know that you don't have to accept any of these long pieces, Jim, not at all. I'm quite sure I could sell the TJ piece to National Geographic (for $9000, I have no doubt)...." Dec. 3, 1995
"I want badly, very badly to please you with my work...." Dec. 19, 1995
"....Are you ever going to let me write for the Reader again?" June 23, 1997
From Holman:
"I'm not mad at you. I admire your work. But the kind of work you do does not lend itself easily to what I need – very precise facticity, immersion in local trivia...." June 27, 1997
Theroux wrote Holman around 2020 to tell the news that he was the father of a young child (he would have been about 80 at that time) and did we have any writing he could do. Holman wrote back that our writer compensation was far lower than it had been in the 1990s.
^^^^^^
Last week's Weekend Read author, Laura McNeal, wrote a number of notable stories for the Reader. A few of the best:
What happened? A pioneer family's tragedy
The death of Judy Huscher
My life as a mammal
Diary of an orange grove