Elmore Leonard on writing
Elmore Leonard’s 10 tips on writing came up in a talk today. It’s […]
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Hot Tuna and a Hippopotamus
It’s Ash Wednesday. Over breakfast, my children looked blankly at me as I […]
Portrait of the artist at 47
A professor in class today said, “the young look ahead, the old look […]
Life in the second global economy
Accumulated snow caused a Cantabrigian to get her mini-van stuck in the middle […]
Cookies, stumbled
I have no idea how my grandmother used to do what she did […]
The not-so-funny life of freelancers
Lauren Lipton, a novelist and freelancer, has posted two animated episodes of freelance […]
Maybe McLuhan was wrong
“The classified ads (and stock-market quotations) are the bedrock of the press. Should […]
RIP Tom Monahan
I had the great good fortune to work with Tom Monahan for six […]
The paradox of the Four Quartets
T.S. Eliot loads his Four Quartets with paradoxes. “In my beginning is my […]
Reporting in good conscience
Nieman Fellows spend a good chunk of our time on extra-curricular activities; to […]