James Lileks

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James Lileks
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
Websitelileks.com

James Lileks is an American

Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is the creator of The Gallery of Regrettable Foods website.[1]

Career

Columnist

Lileks began his writing career as a columnist for the

Newhouse News Service and thence The Washington Post for a period in the early 1990s. In the mid-1990s, Lileks returned to the Twin Cities for a job with the Star Tribune
, retaining his Newhouse column until late 2006. The Star Tribune discontinued Lileks's column in 2007, eventually naming him editor of the now defunct community website buzz.mn.

Lileks also writes a regular column (Athwart) for National Review.[2]

Lileks is currently a columnist for the StarTribue (his column at StarTribune).

Radio personality

Lileks's first foray into radio came in 1987, while he was a writer with City Pages. He became a regular guest on the Geoff Charles show, an afternoon talk show on KSTP. When Charles left the Twin Cities, Lileks filled the slot and served as an afternoon-drive host on KSTP for a time in the late 1980s. In the mid-1990s, after returning from Washington DC, Lileks reappeared on KSTP with a new program, The Diner – a show set in a fictional 1950s-era diner. The show lasted several years on weekday evenings and then a few more as a weekend-evening program before leaving the air in the late 1990s. As of October 23, 2013, The Diner was revived on Ricochet.com.

In late 2006, The Diner was revived in

Northern Alliance Radio Network
program.

Lileks has also been a monologist for the public affairs program

PBS
television stations.

Website

Lileks's blog, the Daily Bleat,[4] began in 1997. The Bleat covers many topics in his personal life (including his daughter Natalie (referred to as "Gnat" until she became old enough to object) and the family dog, Scout), politics from a conservative viewpoint, and cultural points of interest ranging from art and architecture to movies and music (one perennial topic is the Minnesota State Fair). Lileks's website also hosts a vast repository of vintage advertisements and other ephemera from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Other work

Lileks is a regular contributor to the social networking and blogging network Ricochet.com, and co-hosts the site's flagship podcast with Rob Long and Peter Robinson.[5]

Star Tribune controversy and resolution

On May 7, 2007, Lileks announced that his home paper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, was ending his column in the interest of budget cuts and putting him on a straight local-news beat.[6]

The move, which was forced by cuts in other parts of the Star Tribune's newsroom, drew criticism from many,[7][8] Mike Argento, president of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, said in reaction to the news:[9]

It's just a reflection of the sad state of the newspaper industry. Many of the people running newspapers don't have a vision. They're concerned with dollars and cents, and the bottom line. They should look at the future, not just slash and burn.

On June 5, 2007, the Star Tribune changed course and announced Lileks would serve as editor of buzz.mn, a community website.[10] Buzz.mn ceased publication of new content in July 2009.

Bibliography

Fiction

Columns

Humor

References

  1. ^ https://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html The Gallery of Regrettable Foods
  2. ^ "Magazine Review: National Review".
  3. ^ "About Hugh Hewitt - The Hugh Hewitt Show". The Hugh Hewitt Show.
  4. ^ "The Bleat".
  5. ^ Visitor. "James Lileks". Ricochet.com. Retrieved October 17, 2012.
  6. ^ "LILEKS (James) :: The Bleat".
  7. ^ "Beliefnet Columnists". Beliefnet.
  8. ^ "Lileks could use a hand". Hot Air. May 7, 2007.
  9. ^ Astor, Dave (May 7, 2007). "NSNC Prez Criticizes 'Star Tribune' Attempt to Reassign Columnists". Editor & Publisher. Retrieved March 26, 2015.
  10. ^ Ladies and gentlemen, I has a bucket., The Bleat, June 5, 2007.
  11. ^ "Spiderman 3 | RiffTrax". Archived from the original on April 8, 2008. Retrieved April 8, 2008.

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