that change is inevitable in the newspaper industry. I’ve
read that Jeffrey Bezos is planning to keep The Washington Post separate from Amazon, and I
hope that’s true. I also know the damage Bezos has done to the
publishing and book selling industries. Reactions to the
purchase were discussed in a story in yesterday's
New York Times. This quote from book publisher Dennis Johnson nailed it for me:
"It’s
an old boring story — rich man buys a newspaper — but in this instance
it’s one of the richest men ever buying one of the most important
newspapers ever…This is the capper in the development of one of the most
powerful vertical monopolies in our history, which is also one of the
most controlling in matters of cultural concern.”
Worried yet? I am.
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the way it was...
...your characters to shut up and stop sniveling. As Alice Munro's story "Gravel,"in her Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Dear Life, makes clear, the less we tell readers what to feel and the more we leave
to their imagination, the greater the emotional impact. 
Lydia Davis, who won the Man Booker Prize last week, had this to say on the Booker Prize website about the length of some of her short stories:
... and the heat turned up, I’m happy to get to
work at five, while the world is still dark. Now, I want to be outdoors
when the birds break the silence of early morning, the air carries the
scent of damp earth and the deer are feeding at the top of Pond Hill. Occasionally I have a visitor at the back window.