“Whither goest thou America in thy shiny car at night?”
— Jack Kerouac’s notebook,
on display at the New York Public Library
Lutz had given them unambiguous orders. They were going to be alone on the farm, those men in their truck, and they were to shoot every animal they saw. Three teams of deputies had been sent out to watch the farm’s perimeter: One patrolled the southern exposure, on Fred Polk’s farm; a second would [...]
On Sunday, Rosie and I attended a lecture by Peter Turnley, a legendary photojournalist whose career looks like something out of a Hollywood flick about a news photog — this guy has made pictures at nearly every major world event of the last 30 years.
I was scribbling notes as he [...]
Back at Redd’s in Carlstadt, they’re not just hoping for a Giants win, they’re betting on one.
“Well, I’ll tell you right now, we have this little board here, we have ‘Red’s Picks: Giants 31, New England 27,’” Palsi told NJ.com. “I’ll go along with that.”
You heard it here first, folks.
The [...]
We need to hew very closely to traditional journalistic values and totally disregard traditional forms.
— BuzzFeed‘s Ben Smith, as told to Atlantic Wire.
Another great future-of-news read:
→ “David Skok: Aggregation is deep in journalism’s DNA” | NiemanLab
How do you get witnesses, detectives, family members and so on to talk to you?
I’m unfailingly courteous. You show people respect and they’ll give you the goddamned world. We’re walking into their lives, very often on the worst day of their lives. They don’t owe us anything. One thing I say is “I’m terribly [...]
Kirsten was first introduced to Jack in the fall of 2008 by her boyfriend at the time, who jumped up from their table at Rao’s Coffee in Amherst, Mass., to greet his friend, who was dressed uncharacteristically in a suit that hung from his lean frame.
Jack, it turned out, was on his way to [...]
The paradox of this film is that it is both unremittingly bleak and rigorously humane. Mr. Herzog, interviewing killers, survivors, witnesses and officials in law enforcement and corrections, is polite even when asking uncomfortable questions, and the seriousness of his intentions allows humor and absurdity to bubble up amid all the pain. [...]
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