Art and Letters Daily ezine folds

[astro]

From The Juice

Belly up, but not forgotten: The Internet’s best index of high-brow articles on culture — Arts & Letters Daily, a place where intellect mattered — has folded, done in by the bankruptcy filing of Lingua Franca and its parent company, University Business LLC.

I suppose, given the economic climate of the Internet, that the end of Arts & Letters Daily should not have been surprising. But it’s a sad shock just the same.

Arts & Letters Daily

The magazine Lingua Franca and its parent company University Business LLC filed for bankruptcy earlier this year (Trustee, Robert L. Geltzer, of Tendler, Biggins & Geltzer, 1556 Third Avenue, Suite 505, New York, NY 101128). We understand that the assets of University Business, including this Website, are to be auctioned in New York City on October 24, 2002. For further information, we suggest contacting the Trustee.

Since the filing, Arts & Letters Daily has been kept afloat by the goodwill of its editors, Tran Huu Dung and Denis Dutton, and it is now time for them to move on. They will continue to supply content on other similar sites with which they are associated: SciTech Daily Review; Denis Dutton’s Philosophy & Literature site; Business Daily Review. Human Nature Review has fine science reporting, Arts Journal is our favorite for arts news, and Google News is invaluable for newspapers and magazines.

It’s a pity.

[Eve]

I’ve never heard of it, but still, what a shame. I hate it when publications go under—I’m even upset about the demise of Rosie, as there’s all those publishing people thrown out of work.

[knock_knock]

That sucks. I guess I’ll be spending more time on the dope now. (No offense, guys.)