If so, we readers need to know that The Times decided against running the story and why".
I found this strangely endearing to hear – as if we, the readers, were starting from the same page as the author, which was comforting.
We probably no longer require insights about Joe the Plumber and Falcon Heene (of the helium-balloon hoax); but, if we do, readers of "Talk Show" will find them.
If we, as readers, feel sadly confined to the edge of the music and glamour that are intrinsic to the subject, straining for a glimpse of the beauty that remains just out of sight, we know how Kirstein must have felt.
Yet, if we want readers to pay for our content, it has to be a differentiated product.
And if we readers, writers, critics, academics don't respect the lives of women who are not snipers or heroine addicts, what does it say about us, men and women of this contemporary and domestic culture?
If we all become readers of the same literature will we all then be "urban," no matter where we live?
What if we began asking readers to 'give us a picture' of what they 'see' as they read?
We hope that, if we get the readers when they're students, they'll collect us for ever.
If we think our readers would find it interesting, we'll get back to you with some suggestions.
