Don Marquis
don marquis was a great man he was one of the few who recognize talent even in cockroaches and went out of his way to publish worthy scribes the fresh paper in the typewriter and the crumbs of food nearby glad to find someone else of equal stature
what was your name anyway fella yr pal archie
Wed Aug 09 2000 at 22:22:59
Donald Robert Perry Marquis, 1878-1937. An American newspaperman, poet, and playwright, early on an assistant editor to Joel Chandler Harris. While struggling with the task of writing the daily Sun Dial column for the New York Sun, he was inspired to create Archy the cockroach. The idea was that every night, Archy (who possessed the transmigrated soul of a free versepoet) would in a passionate desire to express himself hurl himself headfirst at the keys of Marquis typewriter, battering himself nearly senseless in the name of literature till he staggered back to his nest in the early hours in the morning.
Executive Editor, New Orleans Magazine & Louisiana Life Magazine
Errol Laborde holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of New Orleans and is the Editor in Chief of Renaissance Publishing. In that capacity he serves as Editor/Associate Publisher of
New Orleans Magazine and Editor/ Publisher of
Louisiana Life Magazine. Errol is also a producer and a regular panelist on Informed Sources, a weekly news discussion program broadcast on public television station WYES-TV, Channel 12. Errol is a three-time winner of the Alex Waller Award, the highest award given in print journalism by the New Orleans Press Club. Errol’s most recent books are Krewe: The Early Carnival from Comus to Zulu and Marched the Day God, a history of the Rex organization. In his free time he enjoys playing tennis and traveling with his wife Peggy to anywhere they can get away to, but some of his favorite spots are the Caribbean and historic locations around Louisiana. You can reach Errol at
Unfit magazines use Thinkerbeat Reader to “chart… the authors that we thought
did really well with a story submission.” But these are not stories they bought – six days ago they tweeted out a link to the list of stories they rejected. The page had names, titles, and a rating between one and five stars. One problem: none of the authors had given them permission to do so.
SFWA issued a statement on Facebook warning about the practices in March.
Nine months later, Longshot Press is now trying to discredit SFWA in its post “A Clear Bias at the SFWA”.
Why does the SFWA post fake news? Why do they exhibit so much bias? There are a number of cases, but let’s begin with a solid example.