County Highway
County Highway is a magazine in the form of a 19th century American broadsheet, founded by David Samuels and Walter Kirn.[1] The publisher of County Highway is Donald Rosenfeld.[2] The masthead was designed by Lisa Orth, the first art director of Sub Pop Records who designed Nirvana's logo and the cover of Bleach. According to Airmail, the magazine is a defense of “the American voice,” described by Samuels as “a posture of amazement and receptivity to lunacy, and also a focus on hard facts."[3]
In an interview with Fox News, Walter Kirn explained that County Highway "aims to reverse the focus of mainstream journalism from big cities to small towns."[4] On a similar note, Kirn told the Montana Free Press that the magazine "treats everything the way small town or small city newspapers treat their places: without special status or metropolitan privilege."[5] In addition to cultural essays, investigations, and reported features County Highway also has a music section, as their editor's letter describes Americans as "a musical people.[6] According to publisher Donald Rosenfeld, County Highway will be the periodical representation of Pan American Books. which "will focus on books that the conglomerates tend to ignore.[2]
References[edit]
- ^ "County Highway". County Highway. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
- ^ a b Alberge, Dalya (2023-10-01). "America's new print-only newspaper reinvents the art of reading slowly". The Observer. Guardian Media Group. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "David Samuels and Walter Kirn's Highway to Nowhere". airmail.news. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "County Highway magazine offers readers all-American news | Fox News Video". Fox News. 2023-08-02. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ Levenson, Max Savage (2023-08-09). "Writer/editor Walter Kirn on the launch of "County Highway" magazine". Montana Free Press. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "County Highway". County Highway. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
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