Hits and Misses
Autumn, 1992: Time Smackdown
As a naive Columbia College senior sensing the Real World lurking some ten months away, I sent my resume to the kind folks at Time Magazine. With this letter, Time Magazine Smackdown, they brutally crushed my hopes.
1996: Second Article Ever
I was working at Newsweek and free-lancing for the now defunct monthly magazine, Internet World. This article, Pawns Call King a Rook, on a dispute between two of the Net’s earliest online chess services, has been republished on a chess enthusiast’s site. It was my second big piece.
October 22, 2001: I meet a hero
They don’t pay you much in this line of business. And you stand right next to lawyers and politicians in the lineup of public villains. But there’s at least one benefit: you get to meet your heroes. I’ve interviewed Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, Berkeley Breathed and Alan Moore - four of the artists who helped usher me through my teenage years. Back in 2001, I published the Alan Moore conversation in two parts: his reflections on the film “From Hell” went to Newsweek.com, where they are now buried behind our paid archives wall; and excerpts from his more general ruminations about his comics went to ComicBookResources.com.