Like a whole generation of city reporters, I was learning from Wayne Barrett long before I ever met him.
As an undergraduate at Harvard in the early 1980s, I co-edited a
student-run weekly magazine called What Is To Be Done that featured
culture and commentary modeled on the Village Voice. Ambitiously
churning out a stream of opinion articles, I took seriously the old
adage that good writers borrow but great writers steal, and closely
studied the style and swagger of the Voice’s great columnists.
I would pore over Nat Hentoff’s ringing defense of the First Amendment,
chuckle over Alex Cockburn’s slashing attacks on his colleagues in his
“Beat the Devil” media column and absorb the way Stanley Crouch taught
us to listen to jazz.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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