I'm bored with snobbish writers

When I was in school, a English professor threw me out of his class when I told him he was wrong for bashing journalism. He saw it as pond scum; I saw it as viable work. He saw li-tri-chure--prounced just like that--as diamonds, while journalism and commercial fiction were relegated to the Rhinestone department of the five and dime.

In a recent post, River Jordan said, "my love for story, my love for reading, is more than a foundation. It's really my snob repellent and yes, I use it on myself ...