In Chapter 14 of 17 of his 2009 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, author Scott Gold shares shares how he decided to write non-fiction, after taking multiple non-fiction classes at Washington University, Gold embraces the format's artistic balance. Non-fiction fundamentals appeal most to Gold, namely its fact-based structure and the complementary broad creative license a writer uses to build upon that base. Scott Gold is a published author and writer living in New York City. His passion and love for food and culture was spurred from his childhood growing up in Louisiana. He graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis, where he majored in philosophy.
In Chapter 3 of 16 of his 2009 Capture Your Flag interview, Joe Stump leaves Eastern Michigan University to pursue a one-year sabbatical in Silicon Valley during the first Internet boom. There he builds hands-on programming and website architecture experience before returning to Eastern to finish his degree.
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Erik Michielsen: This is 2000. You are midway through your time at Eastern Michigan University and you popped out to take this opportunity and next thing you know you working, programming for a top 500 Media Metrix site.
Joe Stump: It was pretty insane. I went to collage. I was on scholarship at Eastern and they have this awesome thing where you can take a one-year sabbatical. I was looking at it as the worst-case scenario I get a year of experience and those were very lofty times. So, I went out there for a year and then paychecks became intermittent and so I ended up heading back. Actually Care2 is still around and doing really well, and profitable.
In Chapter 7 of 11, New York Magazine founder and new journalism pioneer Clay Felker mentors author and writer Rachel Lehmann-Haupt during her time at the Felker School of Journalism at UC-Berkeley. Haupt reflects on new journalism's influence on her career, starting with Tom Wolfe's famous essay and continuing with Gail Sheehy and Gay Talese. She continues by sharing story from Clay Felker's July 2008 funeral and memorial service, where Gloria Steinem shared how "[Clay] gave me the confidence that it was okay to get angry."
In Chapter 5 of 11 of her 2009 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, author and journalist Rachel Lehmann-Haupt shares why she chose to attend journalism school over MFA and PhD programs. Before graduate school, Lehmann-Haupt goes undercover investigating the 1990s San Francisco underground rave culture. Finding joy in taking real-world events and filtering them through her creative lens to create a story takes Lehmann-Haupt to Berkeley for her Masters in Journalism Studies.
In Chapter 4 of 11, journalist Rachel Lehmann-Haupt recounts writing influences from Tom Wolfe's new journalism writing and literary non-fiction from to Gay Talese to Electric Kool-Aid Test's Merry Pranksters. Lehmann-Haupt leaves post-Kenyon Collage publishing and reporting jobs to hone her new journalism interests at the University of California Berkeley's Felker School of Journalism.
In Chapter 3 of 11, Kenyon College senior thesis writing and abroad experiences shape author and journalist Rachel Lehmann-Haupt's career and open doors to first job at Harper Collins. Her modern literature focused thesis, written on Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway" and "Room of One's Own" hones a her interest in developing expertise around feminist and women's issues. Then, a college semester abroad in Nepal and an investigative piece on an ashram holy man influences her push away from academia into journalism and writing.
In Chapter 2 of 11 of her 2009 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, author Rachel Lehmann-Haupt traces influences shaping her first book "In Her Own Sweet Time" back to her artistic, writing, and scholar roots. Erica Jong joked Rachel found writing by getting "the curse". Rachel's influences and experiences span her father, New York Times Book Critic, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt reviewing children's books at the family dinner table, through her mother's writing career, to a great-grandfather who spoke 26 languages, a Scottish grandfather knighted as a scholar to a poet great-grandmother, Theresa Haupt.
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