Good profile in Sunday’s paper of Evan Smith, the New York-bred editor of Texas Monthly. Scary anecdote:
In 1994, when he briefly thought he would like to return to the East to work for another magazine, Mr. Smith and his future wife packed up to leave Austin. But first there were the magazines in the closet.
Over the years they had piled up
Month: January 2003
back from blog vacation, sam roe’s series
Happy new year! My blog vacation is ending with a vengeance, I promise you. (It was partly caused by a host snafu, joined with a forced but complicated switch from Berkeley to MySQL databasing on the backend of this site. Non-technical readers: I promise no more posts about Berkeley or MySQL for the rest of winter.)
If you’re (a) an environmentalist, (b) a car enthusiast, or (c) a policy wonk, you’ll be interested in Supercar: The tanking of an American dream, a series that just ran in the Chicago Tribune. It’s by my ol’ bud Sam Roe, who I sat next to at my old job. It’s all about how a project to build an 80-mpg family car got scuttled by government and industry intrigue. (Warning: like all Sam Roe stories, this one’s an epic. Read it in chunks, or be prepared to set aside a decent percentage of your day.)