Newspaper writing teaches humility. "It ain t art, and you ain t Hemingway," more than one city editor has growled at a straining-to-rise cub. A newspaper is a factory; it employs mechanics and craftspeople, but whatever art its employees produce is produced on their own time.
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Reading Portis for the first time required a significant adjustment to all my previously gathered knowledge of what a person can or should put in a novel if they want it to be good.