Sublime

The trip was instant education—sufficient, at least, to enable me to tell my story to other generalists like myself.

By contrast there are now upwards of a billion literate people in the Western sphere. What are the odds that the greatest writer would have been born in 1564? The Bayesian priors aren’t very favorable.

of the New Journalism (which put a new emphasis on the voice and point of view of the reporter),

By high school Sam had decided that he just didn’t like school, which was odd for a person who would finish at the top of his class. He’d also decided that at least some of the fault lay not with him but with school.

trenchant,

These are all highly contestable statements.

Paul era il loro modello, l’immagine che può avere un ragazzino del grande reporter. Bello, ben piantato, sorriso aperto, stretta di mano decisa, in pratica il Mel Gibson di Un anno vissuto pericolosamente. Lavorava per «Forbes» e nel 1994 la

Alone in Cairo on February 27, 1989, he wrote: “It seems very remote now that I shall ever really amount to something in journalism.” Reading this, alone on the deck, I hoot with laughter. By Christmas of that same year, he would be dodging rifle fire on the streets of Timişoara, covering Romania’s revolution as the new star reporter in The Wall St

Knight Landesman,