Hank Stuever on Joan Didion: “Nobody parallel parks a Winnebago-size sentence like her.”
BTW: Hank is putting notes from is Popular Culture Journalism Class at the University of Montana on his blog. This is worth adding to your RSS feeds if you have any interest in writing. Great stuff.
John Temple is running a series describing how journalists are reinventing themselves. If the installments that follow are half as inspiring and entertaining as ME Sprengelmeyer’s opener, it’s going to be a fun ride. Give ’em hell, ME.
I’ll be among the participants in A Public Conversation on Web Journalism next Wednesday, April 1, at the University of Tennessee. Jack Lail has the details on his Random Mumblings blog.
I’ve been very impressed with the progress UT’s j-school has made in the past few years. Jim Stovall managed to round up an impressive group of folks for next week’s event, and he’s also the driving force behind and effort to create the Intercollegiate College News Network (ICONN). Can’t wait to see what’s next …