Haiku Journalism

I'll send an hour-long recording of Dan Barry addressing the Times Herald-Record last year to the first person who pulls off something like this (thanks, Craig): Scraps of news on throwaway newsprint, written by an obscure French figure from the previous century — you'd think you could safely consign these to the literary trash heap. But what if they happen to be marvelous, mocking scraps, written with style and concision? "They're leaving, those Laotian dancers who graced the fair at Marseille; they're leaving today aboard the Polynésien." Or this beauty of an epitaph: "There is no longer a God even for drunkards. Kersilie, of St.-Germain, who had mistaken the window for the door, is…