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Daniel Akst

Daniel Akst - Dan Akst is a journalist, essayist and novelist who wrote three books. His novel, The Webster Chronicle, is based on the lives of Cotton and Increase Mather. More

Dan Akst is a journalist, novelist and essayist whose work has appeared frequently in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Wilson Quarterly, and many other publications.

The death of newspapers (why we should care edition)

By Daniel Akst
Jun 10 2009, 3:58 PM ET Comment


Read it and weep, as the saying goes.




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