The venerable New York alt-weekly New York Press is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and is marking the occasion with an anniversary issue, which includes the names of several of the top writers who have graced the paper's pages over the years- John Strausbaugh, Russ Smith, Matt Taibbi, Armond White, Jim Knipfel, William Monahan, Amy Sohn, Matt Zoller Seitz, Tim Marchman and William Bryk, among many others.
Seeing all these names on the cover makes me nostalgiac for the days when the Press was must-read every week- and got me excited with the implication that all of those people would be contributing essays on the occasion of the anniversary. Except that... on the website, the only only two names on that list with pieces published are Smith and White, who double as the only two still with the paper. Now perhaps all of those people actually wrote things for the print edition and they're not online yet, but otherwise it seems like a bait-and-switch to me.
Here's a timeline of the paper's history. Happy birthday, NYP!
Uhh, yeah. It was boring. No reprints of some of that Departed scribe's essays from way back when? Who was that crazy Charles Bukowski wannabe, who put his stuff together in several books later? Honest, their 20th anniversary issue came off as written by a bunch of twelve year olds. Is the print edition withholding something interesting from the web site?
Posted by: Frederick Grossman at April 24, 2008 06:53 AM