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Article: What we lost when Lingua Franca fell. (Magazines).(Brief Article)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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In the early summer of 1995, in a cramped, cluttered newsstand in Greenwich Village, I purchased my first copy of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life. The headline grabbed me: "Inventing Wills: How an Ex-Jesuit, Sometime Professor Became America's Heavyweight Know-It-All." I was intrigued that Lingua Franca's writer, Adam Begley, had somehow convinced the brilliant and irascible Garry Wills, who rarely grants interviews, to cooperate with a full-length profile. Begley's piece was startlingly powerful and intimate, filled with witty asides and shrewd assessments of Wills and his work. Rarely had I seen writing that was so edgy and compelling.
I had just ...
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