Stories
Journalism
Questions asked of people who did not volunteer to be interesting.
It clusters with documentary, sociology, and the public history that has to meet a deadline.
The ethic is checkable sentences. The temptation is a cleaner story than the notes support.
On an Interest Map, the line we most often letter beside journalism reads “a sentence someone can check.” It tends to meet documentary, and sociology.
Work that shares the table
A book that keeps it company
The Library Book, Susan Orlean. Read it beside journalism: A library as a public room full of private obsessions.