{"id":576,"date":"2003-03-18T08:22:01","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T12:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2003-03-18T08:22:01","modified_gmt":"2003-03-18T12:22:01","slug":"a-social-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"A social trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This winter London is full of men called Ian who think they&#8217;re editing the <em>New Yorker<\/em>. In December, Ian Katz launched the <em>Guardian&#8217;s<\/em> page of little essays, <em>Short Cuts<\/em>. &#8220;Write as if you were doing something for <em>Talk of the Town&#8221;<\/em>, he said. So I <a title=\"You have to scroll down a little\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,3604,848368,00.html\">did<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Yesterday, I was rung up by Ian Irvine, from the <em>Independent on Sunday<\/em>. He wants me, esentially, to write <em>Guardian<\/em> pieces for him: long essays and profiles, and, of course, short pieces for a new section of elegant essays &#8220;We&#8217;re aiming to be just like the <em>New Yorker.<\/em>&#8220;, he said. Unfortunately, because the <em>Independent<\/em> is broke, they don&#8217;t distribute the new magazine outside London, so he is sending copies specially to North Essex. I was, and remain, flattered. I assured him I would send him everything I write in that style which the New York <em>New Yorker<\/em>  fails to publish.<\/p>\n\n<p>Looking for links for this entry, I discovered some wonderful news: Posy Simmonds&#8217; <em>Literary Life<\/em> cartoons are <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/posysimmonds\/archive\/0,12699,852391,00.html\">archived online.<\/a> Here&#8217;s one about <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/posysimmonds\/page\/0,12694,863875,00.html\">the war.<\/a>   And then there is <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/posysimmonds\/page\/0,12694,891018,00.html\">one<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\">New York Publishers.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This winter London is full of men called Ian who think they&#8217;re editing the New Yorker. In December, Ian Katz launched the Guardian&#8217;s page of little essays, Short Cuts. &#8220;Write as if you were doing something for Talk of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=576\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}