Reports Of Our Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

The Reader‘s archive is vast and varied, going back to 1971. Every day in Archive Dive, we’ll dig through and bring up some finds.

So OK, the paper was a fake, a gag gift for Howe, who was leaving Chicago for Detroit and who was considered essential to the whole operation. Obviously, the Reader somehow managed to go on. But it feels like that headline could have run at any time most of the current staff has worked here. It’s amazing sometimes to think that this paper still exists at all.