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Writers

Jonathan Dee

Arts

John Hersey: The Art of Fiction No. 92

“My mother kept scrapbooks of everything any of her children did all their lives, and among my scrapbooks are newspapers that I wrote on the typewriter at the age of six, The Hersey Family News, with ads offering my older brothers for various kinds of hard labor at very low wages.”

John Hersey, Jonathan Dee The Paris Review Jun 1986 50min Permalink

Media

All the News That’s Fit to Print Out

On the volunteer “Wikipedians” who devote their free time to editing Wikipedia.

Jonathan Dee New York Times Magazine Jul 2007 20min Permalink

Arts Media

Tween on the Screen

How Dennis from Head of the Class grew up to be the Aaron Sorkin of tween television.

Jonathan Dee New York Times Magazine Apr 2007 Permalink