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« Il faut que tu écrives comme si personne n'allait te lire; écrire pour toi, être authentique, avec tes tripes, sans nuance, ça doit te ressembler sinon ton œuvre aura le goût du commun et l'attrait du banal. Ce sont approximativement les paroles d'un éditeur à son écrivain. Alors que je suis avachie dans mon divan un dimanche pluvieux d'octobre devant un film, cette phrase résonne en moi comme un pistolet de starter qui donne le départ...
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This collection of more than a hundred anecdotes and essays from the legendary journalist, New York Times columnist, and author of the bestselling memoir Growing Up offers wise and sharply witty reflections on an extraordinary array of topics, ranging from youth, wealth, the media, and the joy of anger to the difference between "dinner" and "supper."
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For half a century Sarah Josepha Hale was the most influential woman in America. As editor of Godey's Lady's Book, Hale was the leading cultural arbiter for the growing nation. Women (and many men) turned to her for advice on what to read, what to cook, how to behave, and-most important-what to think. Twenty years before the declaration of women's rights in Seneca Falls, NY, Sarah Josepha Hale used her powerful pen to promote women's right to an education,...
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En 1989, les étudiants de Pékin occupent la place Tiananmen jusqu'au 4 juin, jour o la contestation s'est terminée dans un bain de sang...
Dans une vie, il est des épisodes qui laissent une empreinte plus forte que les autres. Après une rupture sentimentale, j'ai cherché à vivre quelque chose de différent. Je suis donc parti en Chine pour y apprendre le mandarin. C'était en 1989. Je suis resté 11 mois à Pékin et j'ai vécu de l'intérieur...
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La guerre sans merci que les terroristes intégristes ont mené entre 1993 et 1997 contre les journalistes s'est soldée par un bilan effarant que nul autre pays que l'Algérie n'a connu à ce jour : près d'une centaine de journalistes et travailleurs des médias assassinés.
Depuis l'attentat meurtrier commis contre le journaliste et écrivain Tahar Djaout le 26 mai 1993, les terroristes ont mis en application, de manière systématique, un programme...
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Des conversations avec Stanislavski inspirent à Georgette Leblanc les représentations de La Tragédie de Macbeth et de Pelléas et Mélisande à l'abbaye de Saint-Wandrille, sa résidence d'été. Femme d'énergie, elle sert le théâtre de Maeterlinck avec un dévouement absolu à Paris et dans les grandes capitales européennes.
Leur dialogue amoureux et intellectuel continue, exigeant et rude, jusqu'à la rupture en 1918. Le Prix Nobel lui avait...
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As National Public Radio's senior foreign correspondent, Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth, insightful reportage, and for her independent take on what she sees. One of only sixteen un-embedded American journalists who stayed in Baghdad's now-legendary Palestine Hotel throughout the American invasion of Iraq, she was at the very center of the storm....
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A harrowing and unforgettable look at reporting in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries to be a journalist. In 2017, Mexico edged out Iraq and Syria as the deadliest country in the world in which to be a reporter, with at least fourteen journalists killed over the course of the year. The following year another ten journalists were murdered, joining the almost 150 reporters who have been killed since the mid-2000s in a wave of violence...
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The BBC's Top Gear automotive programme and Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson's outspoken, non-politically correct comments on a variety of topics are what make him most well-known. Jeremy Clarkson typically attracts both supporters and opponents because of his outspoken style. Public outcry has frequently been sparked by Clarkson's opinionated but hilarious tongue-in-cheek writing and presenting manner. His acts, both personally and in his capacity...
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Southern California in the late 1950's has the look and feel of a midsummer morning; bright and still. For two young brothers, the wide world is full of promise. Together they set out to explore it as one, ever alert to the sound of their mother's whistle calling them home. But by late afternoon, dark clouds gather on the horizon and the storm soon breaks. That storm is the war in Vietnam, and its fury sweeps away all the noble lies of the social...
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Le quotidien d'un voyageur journaliste dans un pays qui s'ouvre au monde : le Japon du XIXe siècle.
Rudyard Kipling fait escale au Japon – à la fin du XIXe siècle - entre un long séjour professionnel en Inde et l'Amérique qu'il ne connait pas encore. Cette étape est une découverte surprenante et ses écrits par ces quelque onze lettres racontent avec malice son quotidien de voyageur journaliste dans un pays qui s'ouvre au monde. Voici...
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Read between the front lines: The stories of three Canadian female journalists stationed in England and France during the First World War. Europe: 1914–18. Beatrice Nasmyth, a writer for the Vancouver Province, covered the war's impact on women, from the munitions factories to the kitchens of London's tenements. Mary MacLeod Moore, a writer for Saturday Night Magazine, managed the successful wartime political campaign of Canadian Roberta MacAdams...
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Janine di Giovanni has spent most of her career-more than twenty years-in war zones recording events on behalf of the voiceless. From Sarajevo to East Timor, from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, she has been under siege and under fire.
Along the way she meets Bruno, a French reporter whose spirit and audacity are a match for her own. Their love affair spans nearly a decade and a dozen armed conflicts before they settle in Paris to...
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A first-hand chronicle of Wolseley's expedition to end Riel's Red River Rebellion by a remarkable trio embedded on the mission.
In the spring of 1870, two reporters set off from Toronto to cover one of the biggest stories in Canadian history: Colonel Garnet Wolseley's 1870 expedition to Red River. Over the course of six months, the Daily Telegraph's Robert Cunningham and the Globe's Molyneux St. John brought readers along as they paddled and portaged...
356) Exit Interview
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When David Westin became president of ABC News in March 1997, the division was treading water. "It looked like all the really important news was behind us," he writes. Hardly. For the next thirteen years, Westin would preside over ABC News during some of the most important and perplexing events in its history:
• President Clinton's impeachment
• The tied 2000 presidential election
• The 9/11 attacks
• Conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan
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It's 2008. Jim Axelrod-once among the most watched correspondents on network news and the first television reporter to broadcast from Saddam International Airport in 2003-is covering the final stages of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. He's forty-five years old and thirty pounds overweight. He's drinking too much, sleeping too little, and scarcely seeing his family. He's just figured out that the industry that pulled him up the...
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Since its founding in 1945, the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan (FCCJ) has been a haven for working journalists. From its origins at "No. 1 Shimbun Alley" in the ruins of Tokyo immediately after World War II, the club quickly took on a life of its own. At times it became like a miniature United Nations, meeting the needs of hundreds of foreign journalists from around the world, who used it as a working press center as well as a social oasis....
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What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan, Jacobo Timerman, Natan Sharansky, and Václav Havel to worldwide attention in his role as the father of modern human rights.
Starting as an office boy at Simon & Schuster in 1946, Bernstein moved to...
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Spending 2004-2005 in New Orleans investigating the city's legendary past, both in the archives and its living culture in the street, this account combines personal memoir, historical research, and on-the-ground reporting to trace a suspenseful arc through the last year New Orleans was whole. The perspectives of daily life and the passage of seasons in the antediluvian city are darkly comic, irreverent, passionate, and angry. Fully revealing the city's...
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