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Another travel, PS: an epilogue about Barb Page, and a gentle request…

November 18, 2011 by Hank Stuever 5 Comments

Ollie talks to us about Barb's last days. Photo by Mark Holm.

Back in May I wrote about the death of my good friend and mentor Barbara Kerr Page, with whom I had the pleasure of working with at The Albuquerque Tribune. If you missed that, it’s here.

Many of you who didn’t know Barb wrote very nice notes to me. Some of you had a Barb-like person in your own newsroom life — someone whose wit and stubborn dedication to accuracy and excellence left a lasting impression on everyone she or he worked with.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Albuquerque Tribune, Barb Page, Barbara Kerr Page, journalism, journalism scholarship, New Mexico State University, The Albuquerque Tribune

One-Man Book Club Backlog! Independence Day Clearance Sale Going On All Week!

June 28, 2010 by Hank Stuever 4 Comments

The members of the One-Man Book Club have been reading ’em faster than all the members (total: one) can get on here to blogscuss ’em. I’m going to try to clear out all the One-Man Book Club recent selections this week, and include some selections where the membership couldn’t finish the book. Ready? Chug!

n338168To start, here’s a book I liked very much and recommend to others: Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction, by Jake Silverstein, which came out in the spring. I dug it deeply, starting with the title and alluring jacket. But another journalist I know (someone who is really keen about innovation in nonfiction), said he dropped out after page 40 or thereabouts. So there’s that.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Albuquerque Tribune, American Voyeur, Austin, Austin Chronicle, Beg Borrow Steal, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, book reviews, Eileen Welsome, Entertainment Weekly, fiction, HeLa cancer cells, Jake Silverstein, journalism, Junot Diaz, Karen Valby, Marcos de Niza, Michael Greenberg, New Orleans, New York writers, Nothing Happened and Then It Did, One-Man Book Club, Peter Bognanni, Plutonium Experiment, Rebecca Skloot, Texas Monthly, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The House of Tomorrow, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Utopia Texas, Welcome to Utopia, West Texas, why are so many books about New York?

Quirky is not what you think it is

May 2, 2010 by Hank Stuever 6 Comments

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Sandia foothills, Albuquerque / Photo by Michael Wichita

People who know me best know about my New Mexico thing, which, unlike those people who occasionally go woo-woo and come back from vacation with a newfound Santa Fe jones, is legit and deep.

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Albuquerque, Albuquerque Tribune, Blake's Lotaburger, KayLynn Deveney, New Mexico, Santa Fe, White Sands

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