Mailer, who started the country's first alt-weekly with Daniel Wolf and Edwin Fancher in 1955, died early Saturday in Manhattan. He was 84. After he finished his third novel, Mailer put up $10,000 to launch the new weekly and came up with the name, the Voice reports. "Though Mailer wanted the paper to be 'outrageous' and 'give a little speed to that moral and sexual revolution which is yet to come upon us,' his partners, he said, were more interested in making it a successful, established venture," according to the Voice. He soon started writing a column in the paper, only to quit the paper four months later because he said there were typographical errors in his column. For more reflections on Mailer from around the world, visit Google News.
The Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation released yesterday hidden-camera videos and 258 pages of documents from its nearly two-year investigation into the Weekly's classified department, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The MBI says the videos, which show ad reps talking about how to best word escort ads, helped convince a grand jury to indict the paper and three of its employees for allegedly knowingly selling ads to prostitutes for sex services, according to Local 6 News.
Nicholas Gurewitch's The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories is a collection of the best of his weekly strips, which appear in a handful of alt-weeklies across the country. The hardcover collection will be released later this month by Dark Horse Comics. To celebrate the occasion, Gurewitch talks to New York about, among other things, his comic vision, Gary Larson, and the one strip he regrets publishing. "It's the beginning of a race. And the second frame shows the racers just standing there after the gun had gone off. And the third frame reveals that the runners are not running at all but are, uh, defecating, and on the banner it says 'Poo,'" he says. "I thought that was very, very funny at the time, but now I'm undecided whether it has widespread appeal."
Novoselic, best known for being Nirvana's bassist, began what will be a weekly blog column yesterday with a post on the origins of the title "Smells Like Teen Spirit," anarchy, and the WTO riots of 1999. Weekly web editor Chris Kornelis tells AAN News that he approached Novoselic with the idea, and it developed from there. "Expect his columns to focus heavily on politics, culture, and music -- but really, he's going to be writing about whatever is on his mind," Kornelis says in an email. "We feel very fortunate to have his perspective on our daily website."
AAN is now accepting applications for the 2007-08 membership year. Alternative newspapers that are interested in applying for membership in the association can download an application here (PDF file). Applications must be received in the AAN office in Washington, D.C. by Dec. 31 to be eligible. As papers that have run the gauntlet know, the AAN membership process is rigorous. To learn more about how the association determines whether a paper qualifies for membership, we encourage potential applicants to read our membership guidelines -- there is a short version and a long version (Word doc). For questions about the process, papers should contact Debra Silvestrin at 202-289-8484 or debra (at) aan.org.
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