Bill Heyman
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Chicago radio and television station WGN got its callsign as an initialism for “World’s Greatest Newspaper,” referring to its owner The Chicago Tribune.
September 22, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Chicago radio and television station WGN got its callsign as an initialism for “World’s Greatest Newspaper,” referring to its owner The Chicago Tribune.
Northern Lights (Excelsior, Minnesota)
September 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Northern Lights (Excelsior, Minnesota)
2026 word of the year: semiquincentennial #America250
September 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
2026 word of the year: semiquincentennial #America250
“[I]n 2013 there were six, in 2014 there were six. And then the doors shut.”
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The Vanishing White Male Writer
It’s easy enough to trace the decline of young white men in American letters—just browse The New York Times’s “Notable Fiction” list.
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August 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
“[I]n 2013 there were six, in 2014 there were six. And then the doors shut.”
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
