Now check this out: I was old enough to know that I couldn’t eat the mud pies, and I knew I couldn’t turn the stove on, but I distinctly remember thinking, “Oh, I’ll solve those problems later.”
— Afi from Ohio, answering my question about a making a mess for [...]
There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American.
— Jill Lepore, The New Yorker.
For the record, I don’t [...]
He dresses every day in a jacket and tie and reports to a 22nd-floor office in a nondescript building near Columbus Circle, where his neighbors are lawyers or investment firms. His office looks as if it belongs to the kind of C.P.A. who still uses ledgers and a hand-cranked adding machine. There are an old [...]
You’ve got to read and understand the cultural forces that journalism comes from, the great traditions that it partakes of, the political and social philosophy and, at the center, good writing.
— Howard Ziff, journalist and professor emeritus
of the UMass journalism department
I’ve just started reading Charles J. Shield’s biography of Kurt Vonnegut, “And So It Goes,” and I came across this passage describing Vonnegut’s time writing for the The Cornell Daily Sun:
He was gaining a reputation for his positions in print, and writing for the Sun was more gratifying than any of [...]
“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 [...]
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