The Novelty of Writing An Article That Will Appear In Print

The New York Sun is an online, mildly conservative-minded newspaper that also publishes a print edition. I bought a copy inside Grand Central Station a couple of months ago, and really loved turning the pages on my Westport-bound train. It reminded me of reading the Int’l Herald Tribune in Paris cafes bright and early, which I loved doing in the aughts. (The Trib‘s print edition stopped publishing on 10.14.13.)

The Sun‘s print version was revived last year by owner-publisher Dovid Efune.

I haven’t written a piece for print since the mid ’90s, so when editor Tom Teodorczuk asked for a pair of Cannes Film Festival articles (a “Cannes Then & Now” thang plus a wrap-up), I said sure.

The preview piece, which runs longish (25 or so paragraphs), will be online Friday. It’ll be stepped on, of course, but that’s part of the give-and-take. The print edition will appear next week. I’ll be in Cannes, of course, so I’m looking around for an hombre who can buy a couple of copies on my behalf.