Late Edition : A Love Story

by Greene, Bob

• ISBN13: 9780312376901
• ISBN10: 0312376901
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-25
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

In a warm, affectionate true-life tale, Bob Greene travels back to a place where'”when little more than a boy'”he had the grand good luck to find himself surrounded by 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. 'œIn some American cities,' Greene writes, 'œfamous 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: 'œI 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, Late Edition is a valentine to an era that was gleefully cocky and seemingly free from care, a story as bracing and welcome as the sound of a rolled-up paper thumping onto the front stoop just after dawn.

Author Biography

Award-winning journalist Bob Greene is a CNN contributor and a

New York Times bestselling author whose books include When We Get to Surf

City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship,

and Dreams; And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong

Friendship; Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen;

Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War; Hang Time:

Days and Dreams with Michael Jordan; Be True to Your School; and, with

his sister, D.G. Fulford, To Our Children’s Children: Preserving Family

Histories for Generations to Come.

 

As a magazine writer he has been lead columnist for Life and Esquire;

as a broadcast journalist he has served as contributing correspondent for

ABC News Nightline.  For thirty-one years he wrote a syndicated newspaper

column based in Chicago, first for the Sun-Times and later for the Tribune. 

His essays and reporting have been featured on National Public Radio’s All

Things Considered and on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times.

 

Readers may write to him in care of [e-mail].