WRITERS LIFEGUARD: Anne and Me, We Disagree

By Jules Older Anne Lam­ott is my favorite writer who writes about writ­ing. “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lam­ott is my favorite book about writ­ing. “Word by Word” by Anne Lam­ott is my favorite audio­book about writ­ing. But I’ve got a bone to pick with Anne Lam­ott. It’s because of some­thing she said at the beginning […]

Print May Be on the Way Out, but Content is Here to Stay

By Mark May­field Thirty-two years ago I was a senior in col­lege, and edi­tor of my cam­pus news­pa­per. I wrote edi­to­ri­als and columns on an old man­ual type­writer, with car­bon sheets placed between cheap yel­low pulp paper. Sound famil­iar? Any­one of my gen­er­a­tion can remem­ber a time before com­put­ers, before VCRs/DVRS, before cell phones and, of […]

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        Is there life – or work – after news­pa­pers? A lot of us are in the process of find­ing out. Because it’s gen­er­ally a some­what lonely endeavor, it struck me, in Jan­u­ary 2010, that it might be com­fort­ing – and pos­si­bly very pro­duc­tive – to go through it together.

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