A few years ago, I was teaching a digital journalism course at a local college. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how I’d update my syllabus to account for 2016. This reading list grew out of that. It has all the information I wish I could teach my former students, were I teaching this year: history, context, racial bias in the media, ethics, an examination of why people hate the press, and essays about the media’s role in a digital and contentious world.
The trouble with deciding to read one self-published book a month is that you can’t just go to Amazon and type in “self-published.” You also can’t plug “great self-published books” into Google; you’ll get pages and pages of of businesses trying to sell to self-published authors. So what do you do?
I tried an audiobook for the first time, and my life CHANGED.
For other first-timers, here’s a list of the things you’ll need before you press play.
You know how you can be a reader your whole life, but never stumble onto one of the greats for years? That happened to me with Graham Greene.
September is Post-Apocalyptic Survival Month, and the end is nigh. Thankfully there’s a lot of literature out there that will help you and your family get through end times.
I had expected to attend the reading, hear some poems, and, frankly, drink some beer outside. I did not expect to see a crowd of hundreds of people at a poetry reading on a Wednesday, nor was I prepared for Kooser, a quiet Nebraskan in a baseball cap, to leave me feeling emotionally pummeled after reading an hour’s worth of poetry.