I should, I suppose, be heartened by the prospect of a book mogul acquiring my hometown paper. The reason I migrated to D.C. from New York in 2000, after all, was to work as an editor for the Washington Post’s Book World, which was then one of just a handful of intact standalone review sections in a major newspaper. And now that Book World, like so many general-interest review sections, has gone the way of all flesh, it could well fall to Jeff Bezos, who made his first several tens of millions in the book retailing business, to revive literary journalism in the less-literary-than-ever precincts of Washington in the Boehner era.
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