A summer reading list, of sorts
April 27, 2008 | 10:46 pm
It looks like I’ll be teaching two sections of the Journalistic Essay at Bridgewater State next fall (which is very exciting for me). I’m totally revamping my syllabus and putting together a new reading list.
If you’re interested in seeing what I’ll be teaching (it’s a work in progress) you can take a look here. And please use the comments to let me know if you have any recommendations; I’m typically looking for feature-length nonfiction articles of 3,000-10,000 words written in a narrative style.
(And yes, I realize I wrote one of the articles on the list — I typically teach something I wrote so I can tell the students how each bit of information was reported, and let them know what I would have done differently).
As a reminder, you can see some of the work my students did last Fall at this site. I plan to make more use of that site next year, so add it to your RSS feed if you’re interested.
Tags: Journalism, Teaching, Writing
Victims of Gary Zerola wrote:
April 28, 2008 at 5:34 pm
12+ Victims
Gary Zerola has raped well over a DOZEN females:
4 rape victims of Gary Zerola testified under oath about what happened to them. I have heard of at least 3 other victims that have come forward and told police similar stories. Below are blogs about 5 more victims. So far that is 12 women who all claim they are victims of Gary Zerola. There are many many more blogs posted by other victims of Zerola. Think about it. He is clearly a serial rapist and needs to be put away.
“4 years ago Gary Z managed to gain the trust of my family through business ties he has with my father and then drugged and raped my sister as soon as he had a minute alone with her. Luckily he never got his hands on me. This loser behind being put away is the best news I’ve ever heard! I can only hope that his fellow inmates teach him what it feels like to be manhandled.â€
-RT
Boston Herald
“a similar situation happened to me with gary, but i never reported it, and i was also 18 years old.â€
-a girl
Boston Herald
“Gary Zerola raped two friends of mine about 9 years ago. The last thing they remember was Gary buying them drinks at West St. Bar. They woke up naked next to Gary in the morning. Gary made sure he put enough drugs in their drinks so they wouldn’t remember how they got there. They do know that they were raped. Neither of them had ever blacked out before in their lives. Read the blogs on Gary Zerola…. other’s have similar storiesâ€
- Florida International University Beacon
you’ll get what’s coming to you
Apr. 2, 2008 at 10:35 PM
Posted by BURN IN HELL GARY
these girls are absolutely telling the truth. how do i know? i’m in the same boat. i hope gary is miserable and tainted for the rest of his life, just like the girls he abused.
-Boston Magazine
†Boston magazine has found reference in court documents to prosecutors’ allegations of a fourth incident, involving a young woman who claims her friends had to whisk her away from Zerola after he allegedly drugged her, though no charges were ever brought.â€
-Boston Magazine
stathis is one bad mutha wrote:
April 30, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I’ve always thought this was one of the best newspaper articles (is that a journalistic essay?) that I’ve ever read. “Richard Nixon’s Long Journey Ends” by David Von Drehle. It took me a while to find it because I read it a LONG TIME AGO. Anywho, it stuck with me. Enjoy.
stathis is one bad mutha wrote:
April 30, 2008 at 1:05 pm
too busy giving my 2 cents to add the link…here it is.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A99301-1994Apr28.html