Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism
by Lillian Ross
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Read in April, 2007
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its really very charming. shes the "friend" in all those new yorker pieces "our friend from zanzibar writes. . . " and she writes about herself just the way she writes about all those other people she bumps into in her peripatetisms. she claims her effortless style is really effortless, and its hard not to believe her, even though i dont. the only minor clink is a sort of super niceness and kindness to all gods creatures great and small that might be a holdover survival strat...more
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I've been slowly reading this for the last three years. Who knows how long it will take me, but the little bits of it that I digest here and there I've found immensely valuable. Ms. Ross spent most of her career writing New Yorker profiles, and I adore so many of the "Talk of the Town" vignettes she shares in the book.
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