Tuesday, March 3, 2020

"Former Esquire editor Tyler Cabot launches The Chronicles of Now, a startup that uses fictional pieces to explain news from a fresh perspective"

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From The Wrap, March 2:

Fictionalized news co-exists with facts and additional resources on ‘The Chronicles of Now’
Tyler Cabot’s “The Chronicles of Now” launched Monday, promising readers “short fiction torn from today’s headlines” and delivering a selection of work by Carmen Maria Machado, Thomas Mallon and more.

Cabot, who spent a decade at “Esquire” as Senior Features and Fiction Editor and is currently self-funding the project, told TheWrap he came up with the idea to publish fiction around current events because “there is so much news happening now — so many headlines — and the cycle moves so fast that we don’t really have time to absorb what’s happening.”...
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MarketWatch has already stolen a march on CoN with Feb. 27's "What’s next for the stock market? Here are the potential headlines a month from now".

If interested see also:
Michael Crichton On Speculation By (and in) the Media