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 The Art of Column Writing: Insider Secrets from Art Buchwald, Dave Barry, Arianna Huffington, Pete Hamill and Other Great Columnists $18.95 With The Art of Column Writing, Suzette Martinez Standring has kicked a last second field goal to win the Super Bowl or, if you prefer baseball, hit a home run in the bottom of the 9th inning of Game 7 to win the World Series. Drawing from the experiences of literary behemoths like Pete Hamill, Dave Barry, and the late, great Art Buchwald, Suzette weaves their expert analysis into a delightful outline for current and fledgling column writers to follow. The information she includes is monumental in scope; there is nothing left out. In fact, you could safely (and properly) conclude that The Art of Column Writing is as important a guide to writers as a wiring schematic is to a Marine Corps jet mechanic. Suzette's approach is funny, insightful, thought provoking, and dead on accurate. And when you couple her own dazzling, syndicated commentary with lessons gleaned from the literary mountaintop, you are rewarded with what is clearly one of the very best How To books ever written. The most remarkable, indeed, encouraging, side of this story is that while Suzette's The Art of Column Writing is an unqualified marvel, it is also being used as a text book by teachers in writing classes across America. Hey, talk about 20/20 foresight.  Evolution of a Columnist $24.99 Evolution Of A Columnist is an anthology the published columns, journal entries, poetry and more of Edward Flattau, and span some 40 years ranging from the 1970s down to the modern day. Short pieces (each only a few pages long) reflect the often biting insights of the only nationally syndicated environmental columnist who has been continually writing for newspaper op-ed pages over the past four decades. A strongly dedicated and passionate compilation that reflects the evolution of environmentalism in America despite severe opposition from business interests, Evolution Of A Columnist (also available in a hardcover edition - 1413403557, $34.99) will prove of especially interest for environmental activists and students of journalism.  The Columnist $14.00 Frank exhibits knowledge of the haunts of Buffalo and back rooms of Washington in writing this mildly entertaining novel about an amoral right of center columnist clawing his pen hand through the boudoirs and dinner parties to the heights of Washington journalism. Sprinkling JB Priestly and Satchel Paige quotes and an opaque high tone writing style, the narrator takes on a George Will flavor in obscure rhetoric describing his miserable every day life; he even becomes a commentator on a Sunday talk show to complete the circle. As it was bound to happen, ruination befalls the priapic little twit; jealousy abounds, dreams are lost, columns cancelled, divorces, abandonments, and a less than sanguine ending. At the end, one question: was this a revenge book? |
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