Seattle P-I Book Critic Running Out Of Unemployment...Now
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer shut down March 17, 2009 to be replaced by an online-only site with much fewer staff.
The former book critic, John Douglas Marshall, hasn’t yet found gainful employment.
He wrote in the Atlantic last Friday that he’s cashed his last unemployment check. Nearly 3 years of unemployment, 400 applications, three in-person interviews.
It’s not a happy story. He’s been freelancing and applying for jobs. He’s clearly a qualified, intelligent human being, like so many of the jobless.
And
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