What I'm Reading in Grad School

I'm in grad school; I read a lot. Here, some ideas, quotations, articles, and random items I've come across.

Nov 30, 2009 12:15pm

Reducing stress

If only I had time to actually exercise…
Nov 29, 2009 4:37pm

Mmmm, concentration

Nov 10, 2009 1:43pm
“ I believe journalism can lead to a moment of real human connection between the reader and a world that they would not otherwise know. And with luck it will be a lasting connection. I always tell the people I write about that I’m writing about their world, but that it will be my story. So the truth will be my truth, not necessarily the truth that they believe. ” - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc on truth and journalism.  From The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft, by Robert S. Boynton
Nov 10, 2009 1:37pm
“ I find myself feeling crabby and frustrated, which is a sign that I’m either hungry or need to write. I try to start writing, but I’ll read books and magazines — anything to keep me from writing. The way I know that I’m really ready to write is that I get incredibly tired and I have to sleep. I make sure to read my notes right before I go to sleep so that I’ll wake up with them fresh in my mind. Then I sleep — sometimes fourteen hours straight — and wake up early. That’s when I know I’m going to write. ” - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc on how she knows she’s ready to write.  From The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft, by Robert S. Boynton
Nov 6, 2009 6:24pm
(via natkg)

(via natkg)
Nov 1, 2009 4:42pm

Christopher Walken reads Lady Gaga's "Poker Face." Amazing.

Nov 1, 2009 2:27pm
“ The hero was born of time: his gestation required at least a generation. As the saying went, he had “stood the test of time.” A maker of tradition, he was himself made by tradition… The hero was always somehow ranked among the ancients… The celebrity, on the contrary, is always a contemporary… The passage of time, which creates and establishes the hero, destroys the celebrity… The newspapers make him, and they unmake him — not by murder but by suffocation or starvation. No one is more forgotten than the last generation’s celebrity. ” - Daniel J. Boorstin, “From Hero to Celebrity: The Human Pseudo-Event”
Oct 31, 2009 6:54pm
“ Shakespeare, in the familiar lines, divided great men into three classes: those born great, those who achieved greatness, and those who had greatness thrust upon them. It never occurred to him to mention those who hired public relations experts and press secretaries to make themselves look great. Now it is hard even to remember the time when the “Hall of Fame” was only a metaphor, whose inhabitants were selected by the inscrutable processes of history instead of by an ad hoc committee appointed to select the best-known names from the media. ” - Daniel J. Boorstin, “From Hero to Celebrity: The human pseudo-event”
Oct 31, 2009 11:42am
Happy Halloween.

Happy Halloween.
Oct 30, 2009 9:48pm
“ It will be my earnest aim that The New York Times give the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is parliamentary in good society, and give it as early, if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other reliable medium; to give the news impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of any party, sect or interest involved; to make the columns of The New York Times a forum for the consideration of all questions of public importance, and to that end to invite intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion. ” - Adolph Ochs on his newspaper policies, originally printed in the New York Times on August 19, 1896.  From Michael Schudson’s Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers.
Page 1 of 4