to be or not to be a journalist(a)

Da esq.: Rebecca West, 1930; Martha Gellhorn, 1940; Emma Goldman, 1935; Mary McCarthy, 1980; Susan Sontag, 1989.

[O seguinte artigo é sobre um livro que aparenta ter muito interesse sobre mulheres jornalistas.]

'Journalistas: 100 Years of the Best Writing and Reporting by Women Journalists,' edited by Eleanor Mills with Kira Cochrane
Review by JILL ABRAMSON
"Journalistas" is an anthology that bills itself as the best writing by women journalists over the past 100 years. I first picked up the volume with annoyance - I hated the title and still do. And I'm not a fan of anthologies. Reading them is often like feasting on a meal of hors d'oeuvres. Such collections tend to dilute the narrative drive that makes much journalism compelling in the first place. And the idea of isolating "the best writing" from women journalists seemed dutiful. I have never been fully persuaded that women do really speak and write in an entirely different voice from men, so the idea of segregating them in a book did not thrill me.
But most of the pieces collected by Eleanor Mills (an editor at The Sunday Times of London) and Kira Cochrane (a novelist and former journalist) are so marvelous that I quickly cast aside my doubts. Continue reading...


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Rejeitados
[Este outro artigo é uma autêntica comédia, ou não falasse num jornal britânico que enviou para editoras britânicas obras de autores conhecidos camufladas, para serem analisadas sobre as potencialidades de serem editadas e muitas foram recusadas. Irónico, hein!]

Rejected by the Publishers The Sunday Times of London sent to publishers typed manuscripts that appeared to be the works of aspiring novelists but were actually from prize-winning novels.


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'The Brooklyn Follies, by Paul Auster Paul Auster has packed his novel full of dizzying reversals, masked agents of fortune and other toys from ye olde fiction shoppe.