David Foster Wallace, ‘trashy’ newspapers, snark, and D.C. fiction: Now playing at SolomonScandals.com

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By David Rothman

The Solomon Scandals blog is for my posts that don’t quite fit the regular TeleRead site, now a group blog. No DRM angles. Few e-book ones. Amd no anti-eBabel rants.

For those who do care, here’s a sampling of topics discussed in connection with my just-published Washington newspaper novel:

–The IRS as fodder for David Foster Wallace and me. That’s the Other David, Infinite Jest‘s late author, in the photo. Yes, the IRS does show up in Scandals, as the main tenant of a rickety building Solomon built next to a sewage plant on the Potomac River.

–The trash factor: A big reason why newspapers are in trouble? Actually this and the Rocky Mountain News post might have fit TeleRead.

–Closing of the Rocky Mountain News. A video I found.

–A snarky critique of modern humor? What would Saul Alinsky have thought? Or Lewis Carroll?

–Washington novels: A few uppity observations, plus a guide to D.C. fiction guides.

–Lorain, Ohio: The real Marseilles, sort of—and Toni Morrison’s old town, on top of that.

–The Solomon Scandals: A BRIEF video introduction.

–Washington’s growing power over the rest of us: ‘Solomonic’ in the wrong way?

–Will politicians grow more crooked if newspapers dwindle in number and influence?

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