Tag: Chicago Sun-Times
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Write It Long, But Well By Michael O. Allen It’s about newspapers and news writing: By all means, get rid of slipshod, encrusted and encumbered conventional political writing (even as I needlessly encumber my sentence). Does doing this necessarily lead to shorter news stories? Shorn of the “conventions that don’t add to your understanding of…
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John Schulian
“Lord, how they hated to see Moe Hill come to Waterloo. When he had a bat in his hands and a Wisconsin Rapids uniform on his back, a sense of dread rose from those Iowa townies like summer heat off two-lane blacktop.” —Twilight of the Long-ball Gods by John Schulian I was a teenage immigrant…