On the night table: James Turner

By: Posted: 12:52 PM CDT Saturday, Sep. 24, 2016 Last Modified: 1:00 PM CDT Thursday, Sep. 29, 2016 | Updates

Journalism instructor, Red River College Every year before classes start I re-read George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. This novella is such an amazing feat of journalism and observation. The characters and their (mostly) tiny lives writ large pop off the page. It inspires me every time — and also makes me miss full-time reporting a lot. I’ve also been enjoying National Post columnist Christie Blatchford’s new book, Life Sentence: Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting. It’s caustic in parts and hilarious in others, and less of a rant than I expected. I’ve read and re-read Joe Friesen’s The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw. It’s impeccable reporting and writing on a topic I’m fascinated with. My senior journalism students and I are studying it right now; it’s very much about Winnipeg’s not so-distant history, as well as Wolfe’s saga.

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Journalism instructor, Red River College

Every year before classes start I re-read George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London. This novella is such an amazing feat of journalism and observation. The characters and their (mostly) tiny lives writ large pop off the page. It inspires me every time — and also makes me miss full-time reporting a lot. I’ve also been enjoying National Post columnist Christie Blatchford’s new book, Life Sentence: Stories from Four Decades of Court Reporting. It’s caustic in parts and hilarious in others, and less of a rant than I expected. I’ve read and re-read Joe Friesen’s The Ballad of Danny Wolfe: Life of a Modern Outlaw. It’s impeccable reporting and writing on a topic I’m fascinated with. My senior journalism students and I are studying it right now; it’s very much about Winnipeg’s not so-distant history, as well as Wolfe’s saga.