The Byte and Bits of Language: A Survey of Language Structure [microform] | Collections | The Huntington

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Diamond, Susan
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2 items: 56-pp. transcript of interview by Marshall Berges with Susan Diamond, 6/9/1980 ; 44-pp. transcript of same interview with some notations and corrections [?], also dated 6/9/1980. Subjects include: Diamond describes the type of articles she writes, her writing routine and methods ; her goal - "to write to the person who is not reading the Wall St. Journal and might not understand it (if they did)" ; memories of her childhood and family group ; "the most athletic thing (the family) did was go for picnics on the river bank -- with books" (p. 11) ; English major at Radcliffe ; University of Iowa for Masters ; Brandeis University for Ph. D. - she did not complete it ; joins New Yorker (p. 22) ; disliked New York, zeroed in on Los Angeles to relocate to - she felt Los Angeles was where everything was happening (p. 28) ; freelance work with Business Week, Time, People and Money magazine ; her strengths and weaknesses as a journalist (p. 31 +) ; her career as a writer of long feature stories, which often don't fit a daily newspaper format ; her thoughts on writing long for readers who often don't have time for "long" ; the (painful) editing process ; more.
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