County Highway
County Highway is a magazine in the form of a 19th century American broadsheet, founded by David Samuels and Walter Kirn.[1] The publisher of County Highway is Donald Rosenfeld.[2]
Overview[edit]
The masthead was designed by Lisa Orth, the first art director of Sub Pop Records who designed Nirvana's logo and the cover of the band's first album, Bleach. According to Airmail, the magazine is a defense of “the American voice,” described by Samuels as “a posture of amazement and receptivity to lunacy, and also a focus on hard facts."[3]
Approach[edit]
In an interview with Fox News, Walter Kirn explained that County Highway "aims to reverse the focus of mainstream journalism from big cities to small towns."[4] On a similar note, Kirn told the Montana Free Press that the magazine "treats everything the way small town or small city newspapers treat their places: without special status or metropolitan privilege."[5] In addition to cultural essays, investigations, and reported features County Highway also has a music section, as their editor's letter describes Americans as "a musical people".[6] According to publisher Donald Rosenfeld, County Highway will be the periodical representation of Pan American Books. which "will focus on books that the conglomerates tend to ignore."[2]
Distribution[edit]
County Highway is not distributed digitally. It is only available in print by mail subscription or at over 200 small business locations, almost entirely in the United States which include cafes, restaurants, feed stores, record stores, bakeries, bookshops and breweries[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "County Highway". County Highway. Retrieved 2023-07-19.
- ^ a b Alberge, Dalya (2023-10-01). "America's new print-only newspaper reinvents the art of reading slowly". The Observer. Guardian Media Group. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "David Samuels and Walter Kirn's Highway to Nowhere". airmail.news. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "County Highway magazine offers readers all-American news | Fox News Video". Fox News. 2023-08-02. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ Levenson, Max Savage (2023-08-09). "Writer/editor Walter Kirn on the launch of "County Highway" magazine". Montana Free Press. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "County Highway". County Highway. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
- ^ "Where to Find Us". County Highway. Archived from the original on 21 Jan 2024. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
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