December 2010
2 posts
The Situation vs. The Story
“If the world worked well, we’d be out of a job,” a journalist colleague once said to me. More likely we’ll be subsumed into advertising, entertainment, propaganda or writing history. Nonetheless he was betting that terrible situations would continue to provide stories for reporters: war, economic and natural disasters, fraud and abuse, disease and poverty.
Reading student documentary...
Steve Martin IS HERE, but you're not in the room →
Steve Martin is a comedian, actor, playwright, novelist — and yes, a favorite figure in our living rooms as a TV Host of award ceremonies and Saturday Night Live. He’s also an art collector whose latest novel about the art world was discussed and then interrupted at the 92nd St Y last week as he describes in today’s New York Times Week in Review.
What he’s too nice to...
