{"id":329,"date":"2006-06-13T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2006-06-13T05:52:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-13T13:52:53","slug":"ive-got-mail-narratives-full-circle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"I’ve Got Mail: Narratives, Full Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received an email today from Carl Abernathy, proprietor of Cahl’s Juke Joint<\/strong><\/a>: A rock, blues and jazz blog that features reviews and meditations on an eclectic <\/span>mix of music. When I first discovered Carl’s blog I remembered being intrigued right away that someone so into music and with such diverse musical tastes would list books by John McPhee and Tracy Kidder among his favorites — both authors are masters of the narrative nonfiction genre — but I had forgotten that Carl works days as a college newspaper adviser. Guess I’m not the only one to mix passions for music and narrative tales. Carl writes:<\/p>\n

I like the Nieman narrative writing site, too. I’ve been using bits and pieces from some of the stories in seminars.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, one of my former students sent me a link to another site that features narrative writing: http:\/\/www.gangrey.com\/
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\nI don’t like all of the work featured on the site, but it’s a nice resource, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gangrey, “Prolonging the slow death of newspapers,” is a blog with postings by Ben that contain links to stories in various newspapers. As Carl said, some are better than others, but it’s a great way to serendipitously sample the fare in papers around the country. Thanks, Carl.<\/p>\n

Most blogs have an About Me link, but no such link for Ben on Gangrey. I did find a link, however, referring to a story on which he had been working, a story, it turns out, that he wrote for the St. Petersburg Times Online\/Tampa Bay<\/em>. I couldn’t tell if he was on staff or a freelancer, but now that I had his full name, Ben Montgomery, I googled him. Guess where his bio blurb<\/strong><\/a> showed up! On Neiman’s Narrative Digest<\/em>. And that brings us full circle to my post from yesterday<\/a> that precipitated Carl’s email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received an email today from Carl Abernathy, proprietor of Cahl’s Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog that features reviews and meditations on an eclectic mix of music. When I first discovered Carl’s blog I remembered being intrigued right away that someone so into music and with such diverse musical tastes would list … Continue reading “I’ve Got Mail: Narratives, Full Circle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ive-got-mail","category-reading-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}