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Mar.05.2013
Creative Nonfiction, Winter 2013
This is one of those issues I just couldn’t stay interested in. Still, I’m glad I made it to the back pages and a roundtable discussion between Chris Jones, Thomas Lake and Ben Montgomery, roughly on the state of journalism today.
What with the urge to beat...
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Mar.05.2013
EDITOR'S NOTE: New America Media editor Andrew Lam has made his name as a journalist, but in his newest book, his past as a Vietnamese refugee reverberates through short stories about characters who fled Vietnam and made new lives in the Bay Area. NAM reporter Anna Challet spoke with him...
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Feb.23.2013
I anticipated my second round of chemotherapy with no small amount of anxiety. I had spent the first round sleepless and in pain, an experience I did not want to repeat.
It appears that I am tolerating the toxic stew a bit better today, which began at dawn with radiation followed by 10 hours...
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Jan.10.2013
Corrections and apologies are hard, but as writers there is a simple fact that at some point in our careers we will get something wrong. Being able to acknowledge and take ownership of a mistake is a fairly important aspect of this art and profession.
I learned this in a rather difficult way when I...
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Jan.05.2013
Newsweek hasn't been a news weekly for a while now. In this devoted reader's mind, it's been a journalistic sham since Tina Brown took over and the magazine had to carry the blogger baggage of The Daily Beast.
In this final edition, Brown does give credit to Christopher Dickey for...
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Jan.05.2013
Newsweek hasn't been a news weekly for a while now. In this devoted reader's mind, it's been a journalistic sham since Tina Brown took over and the magazine had to carry the blogger baggage of The Daily Beast.
In this final edition, Brown does give credit to Christopher Dickey for...
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Nov.09.2012
Let’s say you don’t want to take my journalism school professor’s advice and, instead, want to write an article–or two or three–as your WNFIN challenge project even if you don’t have a paying assignment yet. Today, Zachary Petit, managing editor of Writer’s Digest magazine and author of the...
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Nov.02.2012
The WNFIN challenge focuses on finishing a nonfiction project in 30 days. A deadline like this often means you have to write fast. As a magazine journalist and a blogger with five blogs, I know all about writing fast to meet deadlines. However, it’s not enough to write fast; you also have to...
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Oct.20.2012
Friday Night Lights, by Buzz Bissinger
image via gothamist.com
Having previously read After Friday Night Lights, I felt compelled by Bissinger’s years-after revisiting of Permian High School’s might-have-been superstar, Boobie Miles, and Odessa, Texas’, obsession with high school football, to...
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Oct.15.2012
Recently I found myself on the verge of crossing over from ambivalence into guilt due to the amount of time and creative energy devoted this year to online journalism and other forms of prose-writing as opposed to a more luxurious immersion into the rich flow of poem-making. There were actually at...
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