Magazine

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Few people have thought as hard or as well about magazines as Jeff Jarvis does. He describes Magazine as an elegy, and it's a beautiful one, but it's so much more-a love letter to the heyday of a glorious form, a roundhouse punch thrown at those who failed as its custodians, an elegant and insightful history of a medium, and a vivid, funny, unsparing memoir. It's a pleasure to read him, and a privilege to learn from him. * Mark Harris, journalist and author of Mike Nichols: A Life (2021) * A starter, lover, student, and doubter of magazines, Jeff Jarvis is here to explain to us-in beautiful and entertaining prose-what the magazine was when it was great, and how the internet undid it, by wiring us together in a different way, and giving everyone a printing press. The call that magazines once answered is still heard, he argues. It is to 'set the idea of community free from geography.' * Jay Rosen, Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University, USA * Having devoted a chunk of my life to writing for and editing magazines, I wondered whether Jeff Jarvis's smart little chronicle, Magazine, would feel like nostalgia or PTSD.

He opened so well, it ceased to matter. * The Common Reader *