End of Days
The last threads of faith are scattering from my frayed talis. Slick-haired weatherman just told me tomorrow, mother nature’s gonna kick my ass. So I looked it up on weather.gov. 45 and breezy.
So let me get this straight….
a car barrels through scuffling pedestrians in Manhattan. A man breaks both kneecaps. The driver speeds away. Next […]
A Brief One
Keep your eyes open. This is the essence of journalistic preparedness. At Columbia News Service, a Spring-semester class that puts assignments on a news wire run under the auspices of the New York times, and which goes out to over 400 newspapers nationally, we have five articles to write over the course of the semester. […]
Starting Hard
February 7, 2008
Writing the long form is a different animal. Material is gathered in the same ways – conducting interviews, pounding the pavement in hope of the random pickup, doing historical research – but the process is entirely different.
Quotes are molded to fit the form, ideas are fleshed out in lengthy, luxurious strokes of thought. […]