![]() ![]() ![]() That’s what I practice, so that is what I will teach. It encompasses books and magazine-story telling that cannot be accomplished on a computer screen. Call it what you will-long form, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism-this is the form that is increasingly explaining the truth of our age. What I teach is literary journalism-it straddles literature and journalism. Why did you become a journalism professor? Maybe that’s the right experience for them. Maybe for others it is better to join the staff of a cargo ship, or fight in a war, or travel around the world. But going to school is an individual decision and not right for everyone. Yet, for both creative writing and for journalism, school gives you a period of time to do nothing but practice your craft, and the opportunity to be in a community of people all chasing after the same dream, and all taking it very seriously-which can seriously help a writer shape her craft. I have a MFA in creative writing, and there’s certainly no requirement that a novelist go to school to learn how to write. I don’t think there’s any requirement that journalists should go to school. ![]() What’s the use of journalism school for would-be journalists. Selections from interview with Sarah Hart in April, 2008: ![]()
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