A bookworm journalist blogs on literature and life
From the monthly archives:
Welcome to my second edition of J-School Journal. I hate that name, so instead of formalizing my feature with a name I’m just going to commit to writing a post about journalism and journalism school on Friday, without worrying that it has a snazzy button or name (unless I come up with something cool later [...]
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This week’s edition of Weekly Geeks is all about classic literature. Ali from wordcoupia posted four questions, asking us to answer two. So, here goes: 1. How do you feel about classic literature? Are you intimidated by it? Love it? Not sure because you never actually tried it? Don’t get why anyone reads anything else? [...]
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Last year (wow it seems weird to write that), I read and reviewed Not Quite What I Was Planning, a book of six-word memoirs edited by SMITH Magazine. The concept of the book comes from an urban legend that Ernest Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in six words. Based on that [...]
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PC World recently published a list of 100 of their favorite blogs. I went through it yesterday and a lot of them seemed fun. I know everyone’s Google Readers and Feeds are overflowing, but here are a few more I think you should consider (that don’t take any time to keep up with): passive aggressive [...]
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Two weeks ago a friend and I were browsing the selection at Magers & Quinn, a well-known used bookstore in the Twin Cities, when I found It’s All Greek To Me by John Mole hidden away in the travel essays section. I’ve always had a thing for Greece, so I picked the book up to [...]
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It’s been a very slow reading week. I can’t seem to focus on much of anything — I’ve been trying to read Saturday by Ian McEwan, but (even though I recognize it’s a lovely book) I just can’t get into it. But I want to read. I want to read a lot, I just can’t [...]
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One of my 2009 goals was to blog more about journalism, and since the BIP Week 2 project was to brainstorm a new feature, I thought a journalism-related post would be perfect. Hence, J-School Journal, a weekly post about life as a journalism grad student. It still needs a better name, but anyway… This week [...]
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When I was little, I used to be able to sit down and read straight through a book in a single afternoon. As I’ve gotten older this has happened less and less often. I’m too busy with school and work and friends or too distracted by tv and movies to plow through a book that [...]
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Lots of blogging advice sites and such constantly say that “content is king” — good content is what keeps readers coming back to read more of your blog. People start blogs with lots of content ideas, but as the weeks go by sometimes we start to lose steam (at least, I know I do). That’s [...]
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I finally got to visit all of the participants for Week 1 of the Blog Improvement Project, and I have to say that I was totally inspired by all of the great goals. There were 42 bloggers who participated, and after going through them I came across a number of similar goals: Leave more comments. [...]
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