Rita Longo was the Associate Editor for the Summer 2003 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism. Hard Covers, Soft Coverage
Too much marketing, too little critical commentary: why some TV book shows should be tossed in the remainder bin
It’s 11 p.m. on a Sunday and four women are gossiping around a coffee table on the set of Mary Walsh: Open Book, a half-hour show launched in July 2002.Walsh and her guests, poet Susan Musgrave, columnist Jan Wong, and singer/songwriter Jann Arden, are having a hard time focusing on Mary Karr’s The Liars’ Club: […]
