The Art of Journalism No. 1 (Translator) Issue no. 156 Fall 2000 “Who the fuck do you think wrote the Book of Revelation? A bunch of stone-sober clerics?”
Peter Matthiessen’s Notebook July 12th, 2017 Peter traveled with universal notebooks, taking notes on the right-hand pages, leaving the left blank until he used them for his first run at usable copy—usually in the evening after a day of reporting.
There’s the Great Man August 2nd, 2016 Befriending George Plimpton.George’s questions were like trampolines, a technology he admired. They bounced you higher—to the next question. This was particularly true when he was talking about writers and writing.“Did you know that the great C…
Jim Harrison, 1937–2016 March 29th, 2016 The arts are our wild edge, the wilderness areas of the imagination …—Claude Lévi-StraussJim Harrison gained international renown as a storyteller of literary genius, but through all the novels and novellas and films that made him a celebrity, he…