TODAY, FEBRUARY 17th:
THE APACHE CHIEF, GERONIMO DIED AT 79 ON THIS DAY IN 1909. The teaching of history needs a definite reboot when “Geronimo” is simply something you shout when cannonballing into the pool.
one who yawns, a yawn it is not!
Before the Bedonkohe leader led the Apaches to defend their homeland against the encroaching United States, Geronimo was a mere child born into the harsh realities of the 19th century. The fourth of eight children, he helped his parents work their two acres of land, planting beans, corn, melons, and pumpkins.
The latest from the New York Times bestselling author of BEE SEASON
THE DARINGLY INVENTIVE “FEAST YOUR EYES” NOW IN PAPERBACK. A historic novel framed as the catalogue notes from a photography show at MOMA, FEAST YOUR EYES tells the life story of Lillian Preston, a young photographer who rejects college and marriage to move to New York City in 1955. Targeted with an obscenity charge after a small gallery exhibits partially nude photographs of her with daughter Samantha, Lillian must contend with national notoriety that changes her life and career as she continues to pursue career legitimacy and recognition.
The New Yorker found it to be “a searching consideration of the way that the identities and perceptions of a female artist shift over time,” while I found it to be a wholly original story of creative survival in Manhattan… and one I deeply related to.
By 1939, Newsweek was one of the “big three” American newsweeklies—along with Time and U.S. News & World Report
THE FIRST ISSUE OF NEWSWEEK WAS PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1933. Founded by a former foreign-news editor of Time, Thomas J.C. Martyn, it was called "News-Week," and featured images of FDR, Stalin and others from the week's news on its cover. Costing 10 cents a copy (or $4 a year), it soon became one of the “big three” American newsweeklies (with Time and U.S. News & World Report). In 2011, it merged with the Daily Beast (whose founder, Tina Brown, became its editor-in-chief) before ceasing its print edition and transitioning to an all-digital format on Dec. 31, 2012.
A higher-priced print edition has returned—less dependent on ad revenue for its survival
While always the underdog (Avis to Time’s Hertz—and buried by its competitor’s weekly readership of 20 million), Newsweek—much more than Time—brought civil rights and the anti-war movement into the mainstream; ran week-by-week recaps of Nixon’s misdeeds; put AIDS on the cover when only a few doctors had heard of it; and Osama bin Laden on its cover before 9/11. That risk-taking earned the magazine more National Magazine Awards than any other newsweekly. And with the print edition’s return in March 2014, that legacy is sure to continue.