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A Love Story
St. Martin's Press
July 2009
On Sale: July 7, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 0312375301
EAN: 9780312375300
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
A loving and laughter-filled trip back to a lost American
time when the newspaper business was the happiest game in
town.
In a warm, affectionate true-life tale, New York Times
bestselling author Bob Greene (When We Get to Surf City,
Duty, Once Upon a Town) travels back to a place where—when
little more than a boy—he had the grand good luck to find
himself surrounded by a brotherhood and sisterhood of
wayward misfits who, on the mezzanine of a Midwestern
building, put out a daily newspaper that didn't even know
it had already started to die. “In some American cities,” Greene writes, “famous
journalists at mighty and world-renowned papers changed the
course of history with their reporting.” But at the
Columbus Citizen-Journal, there was a willful rejection of
grandeur—these were overworked reporters and snazzy
sportswriters, nerve-frazzled editors and insult-spewing
photographers, who found pure joy in the fact that, each
morning, they awakened to realize: “I get to go down to the
paper again.” At least that is how it seemed in the eyes of the novice
copyboy who saw romance in every grungy pastepot, a
symphony in the song of every creaking typewriter. With
current-day developments in the American newspaper industry
so grim and dreary, Late Edition is a Valentine to an era
that was gleefully cocky and seemingly free from care, a
wonderful story as bracing and welcome as the sound of a
rolled-up paper thumping onto the front stoop just after
dawn.
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