Wednesday, March 04, 2009

The Wednesday Web Browser: "Our" Professor Matteson, Essay on John Balaban, and Suspicious Signs for Freelancers

The new issue of Harvard magazine includes this excellent profile of John Matteson and his book, Eden's Outcasts, a double biography of Louisa May Alcott and her father, Bronson Alcott. (Before he became an English professor and Pulitzer prize-winning author, Matteson was a lawyer, and he is a Harvard Law School graduate. (Please do not confuse him with the Professor John Matteson involved in this story.)
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John Griswold (alias "Oronte Churm") has published a moving essay about a mentor, writer John Balaban, in War, Literature & the Arts.
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And in the realm of freelancing, Michelle Rafter offers signs that a magazine is in trouble.

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