Zoë Lance.

  • Culture Connoisseur: What I Read In Print

    One of my favorite feelings comes about like this — I arrive home after a long day at work, look through the pile of mail on the dining room table and see a new issue of a magazine addressed to me. I love the accessibility that the Internet gives me when it comes to reading…

  • Link Party: 4/4-4/8

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. This 9-year-old reporter and her community news efforts make me so proud. 2. This is a stupendous feature on Yellowstone National Park and its wildlife. This is a must-read. 3. The work of professional taste testers. 4. Read about the guy who recorded, tamed and sold nature sounds to…

  • Undergrad Adventures: Reporting III

    To finish out my journalism minor, I decided to take Reporting III this quarter. This particular class is centered around how to be a beat reporter for a city, and what kinds of stories you should be looking for. You know that I’m into the arts and cultural criticism side of the business, so this was…

  • Culture Connoisseur: Joan Didion

    As an English major, I’ve read a lot of books. There have been books I thoroughly enjoyed (Infinite Jest or Absalom, Absalom! for example), books I thought were just okay (Animal Farm and Of Mice and Men) and books I really really really really disliked (Huckleberry Finn and The Fault in Our Stars). And although I can…

  • Undergraduate Adventures: Style Guide

    For the academic year, I’m the student newspaper’s copy editor. It’s actually quite a bit of work: after the editors take a look at submitted stories, I comb them over for inaccuracies and grammar errors. When the editors lay out the pages, I look at proofs to catch any last errors before the paper goes to print.…

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