Submerge Yourself in Texas Monthly's New Editor
Texas Monthly Editor Jake Silverstein to read at BookPeople
By Kimberley Jones, 2:23PM, Thu. Jan. 15, 2009
Admittedly, when we pick up a fresh copy of Harper's Magazine, we tend to flip directly to the Harper's Index ("Minimum number of calls the FBI received in fall 2001 from Utah residents claiming to have seen Osama bin Laden: 20"). But Harper's has more deservedly built its reputation on decades of top-notch cultural and political reportage. Want proof? Check out the anthology Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine, about which our own Cindy Widner wrote back in November, "The selections are tightly and sometimes masterfully written, and many of their subjects guarantee fish-in-a-barrel satisfaction (who among us can resist "On the Great Ukranian Bride Hunt"?)."
Anthology contributor and newly appointed Texas Monthly editor Jake Silverstein will be at BookPeople on Jan. 20 at 7pm to talk up the book and to deliver "a behind the scenes look at a true reporter’s life." Jake's a hell of a conversationalist, too, so it's sure to be a fun evening.
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