September 2011
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"The Curse of Tom Wolfe"
This 2002 Columbia Journalism Review piece on the state of magazine writing—”The Curse of Tom Wolfe: What went wrong for the magazine story,” by Michael Shapiro—has been big conversation in my writing group this week. Magazine writing has become so predictable, so BORING, Shapiro argued.
He described his disappointment after reading National Magazine Award entries as one of the...
