Today we said goodbye to Bess Kalb, beloved daughter, sister, and former reader of serious books.
Dr. Cohen, a former reader at Yale, is a member of the independent consultants association — despite a claim on the IvyWise Web site that runs afoul of an association admonition.
Nor can they quite forgive themselves for their own moments of middle-class embarrassment, the "cursed vanity" that made them shrink from their neighbors' glances at the strange, scarecrow-thin young man — the former "reader of Kant" and "pride of A.P. chemistry" — who, before he left for India, couldn't even hold down a job at Subway.
Bon Appétit's circulation was forecast to bloom as it absorbed former readers of Gourmet, and other magazines began eyeing Gourmet's list of more than 900,000 subscribers.
This bold experiment is aimed at winning over people who have never picked up the newspaper-reading habit and winning back former readers who have abandoned print.
"My girlfriend and I are putting in an enclosed vegetable garden today at our home in Joshua Tree, California", Babcock reassures concerned former readers, "near our outdoor shower and compost toilet".
With its archive deleted, JAG's internet presence is now confined to the occasional mournful tweet from one of its former readers, but the problems it identified on the right are more glaring than ever.
He encourages the green-conscious former readers among us to substitute the classics of the canon for skeet during weekend shooting practice (this bullet's for you, Jane Austen!), and notes that smearing a copy of "Lassie" with lard will coerce your pooch to down that dog-eared copy (at least someone is still gulping up literature).
Let us know what you think (and please don't swear... ) A former readers' editor of the Guardian, writing about the first appearance of the C-word on the paper's front page (in a story quoting Jeremy Clarkson), suggested that the British have "a propensity for profanity and lewdness" and pointed out that even David Cameron had publicly called someone a "twat".
Among the squad for The Paris Review on that sunless season opener in April were a literary agent or two, some former readers of the magazine, and Karen Maine and Benjamin Platt, two interns, who, having just concluded their stints, found themselves competing against each other for the same, very few publishing jobs.
This seems to me pretty brave, because it risks alienating former readers who have just gotten comfy with her last work; and there is indeed something wonderful about encountering baffled responses to the book on Amazon, like this one: "I loved 'On Beauty' but could not get into this book… the writing style is so difficult it makes it not worth the effort".
