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Feb.25.2012
A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
image via thehemingwayproject.com
I hadn’t given this book a read in many years, and so after reading Hemingway’s Boat, I decided to take it on again. It’s funny, but it was as if I had never read it the first time. I think that...
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Feb.20.2012
I've commented infrequently on Atlantic Monthly, a magazine I've read for many more years than I wish to count. I've had my problems with Atlantic; the editors have often tackled important subjects in the magazine, but all too often they've done so with provocative articles...
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Feb.08.2012
The AP Stylebook, once the journalistic Bible for news writing-style and usage, has radically changed to fit modern times & mores-- or so it appears, given the second paragraph of the story in the screen-shot, reproduced in photo at right, as published in the Northwest Florida Daily News...
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Feb.04.2012
Pulphead, by John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Thematic strength isn’t something you usually find in a book of journalistic essays, but apparently Sullivan is drawn to strangeness wherever it rears its head. And in this world, strangeness is de rigueur. ...
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Jan.25.2012
I can't seem to quit writing about Harper's Magazine, especially since my old tried and true, NEWSWEEK, has corroded to crap right before my eyes. It's perhaps unfair to compare a weekly with a monthly, but Harper's always gives its readers something topical, but in a depth that NEWSWEEK has long...
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Jan.19.2012
If you haven't listened to Mike Lawson's podcast, What Some Would Call Lies, I recommend this week's episode, even though it's a fucking Debbie Downer (those were his words, by the way). It was about a city council meeting he had to cover when he worked at a newspaper, and it got me thinking...
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Jan.11.2012
The Broad Street Review has published my article on Janet Malcolm. It gives writers permission to post their pieces at their own blogs, but I thought it would be interesting to post my piece as I wrote it. BSR's editor, a vastly more experienced journalist than I, made substantial cuts...
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Dec.27.2011
Some books make you think that the biggest mistake one can make in life is being born. There's a bit of that here, but there is also an element of inexplicable fortitude and good fortune.
John and Robert Darnton, the one a successful journalist, the other a distinguished...
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Nov.12.2011
Two of the most perplexing questions in the Age of the Internet involve newspapers and that elusive profession/vocation called "journalism:" boiled down to its essence, the first question may be stated as "how do you make money in the former?" and the second, "how do you make a living doing the...
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Oct.08.2011
Play Their Hearts Out: A Coach, His Star Recruit, and the Youth Basketball Machine, by George Dohrmann
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There was a time when the second best avenue to writerly acclaim (the best being investigative journalism) was sports writing, and Dohrmann seems cut from that...
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