Poor Columbus, another perfectly respectable city with a towering inferiority complex. To understand why, you need only glance at the WashPost story on the highway shootings.
It’s datelined Chicago. Columbus lies nearly at the halfway point between the two cities.
Jeff said on December 3, 2003 at 7:46 pm
. . .and i know i’ve mentioned this before on Nancy’s site, but just a couple years ago, the New York Times Magazine did a profile (long one, too) on a noted architect who designed a Versailles in New Albany, Ohio just outside of Columbus for our local hero Les Wexner, of Limited/Victoria’s Secret/A&F fame, and godfather of Easton. It noted that Wexner’s new house was “two and a half hours south of Cleveland.”
Or, ten minutes outside America’s 14th largest metro area, passing Baltimore. What we need, Nancy, are good crime novels/dramas set in Columbus — just don’t write one with a sniper in it, if you would. Then we’ll hear about “the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just two and a half hours north of Columbus.”
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Jeff said on December 3, 2003 at 7:46 pm
. . .and i know i’ve mentioned this before on Nancy’s site, but just a couple years ago, the New York Times Magazine did a profile (long one, too) on a noted architect who designed a Versailles in New Albany, Ohio just outside of Columbus for our local hero Les Wexner, of Limited/Victoria’s Secret/A&F fame, and godfather of Easton. It noted that Wexner’s new house was “two and a half hours south of Cleveland.”
Or, ten minutes outside America’s 14th largest metro area, passing Baltimore. What we need, Nancy, are good crime novels/dramas set in Columbus — just don’t write one with a sniper in it, if you would. Then we’ll hear about “the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just two and a half hours north of Columbus.”
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Nance said on December 3, 2003 at 8:05 pm
I can recommend one, although it’s too literary and plotless to be a real genre novel: “The Right Man for the Job,” by Mike Magnuson. He’s a Cheesehead, but he got his MFA in C’lumps, so it gets to be the setting for his first novel. A fun read for anyone who knows the city, and anyone else, too.
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deb said on December 4, 2003 at 8:38 am
when i lived in michigan city, our community suffered from the same ugly-stepchild syndrome. references always seemed to need a qualifier to pinpoint its location. the worst indignity appeared in editor & publisher, the trade mag for the fourth estate, which ran a story about a recent slew of promotions at our paper. inexplicably, the story’s dateline was “gary, indiana.” i actually heard from one of my old j-school profs about that one.
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