#spymagazine

Recently LongLeaf Style Magazine published its final issue and, for whatever reason, they asked yours truly to write a piece for its fond farewell. LongLeaf was a pretty darn good magazine published by The Anniston Star, a daily newspaper, in Anniston, Alabama, about an hour from Birmingham. For the assignment I wrote this piece, The Death of the Newsstand. The article essentially functioned as my eulogy for the good old American Newsstand, which I had the displeasure to watch die a slow, painful, gruesome death.

I won't spoil the piece with too much detail here, but I had the idea after my favorite newsstand in Birmingham, Alabama, was closed and converted into a yogurt shop (I think even that business has already closed), and after a short and sad visit to a joint calling itself a newsstand in Alys Beach, Florida, a couple of summer ago.