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posted by ef at
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
a Few Stories and Profiles by Erik Hedegaard
from inside the pages of Rolling Stone
(with additional commentary and falderal provided by the author)
(the worth, details, and sports afield, etc., stuff is here)
2 Comments:
An interesting story you might appreciate:
While at college in Chicago, studying photography and creative writing, I came across a Rolling Stone cover story about the actresses in "The Sweetest Thing," by some guy named Erik Hedegaard.
The following week I went into my creative writing class, put the article in front of my professor and said, "I want to do that. I want to do what he did. Teach me."
She let me do an independent study my senior year where I tried to learn from (mimic, actually) the writer's style. In retrospect, I realize I failed miserably, but A for effort and all that.
So today, now in NYC as a grad student at Columbia's Journalism school, I was riding the 1 train to connect with the A train with my just-purchased copy of Rolling Stone. I was so happy to see that Mr. Hedegaard was at it again.
As always, I was completely sucked in, not even making an effort to hide my outbursts of laughter on the subway (weirder shit happens down there). Giggling over the altoid tangent, I looked up to see the doors close and the platform of my intended stop disappear.
It annoyed me for a second, but then came the "dent," so I bounced back.
Anyway...thanks for the push down my current direction, for the dent, and for continually holding up the mirror.
Needless to say, Kate rocks. Thanks for weighing in, Kate!
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