- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Category Archives: Writers
Are Athletes Role Models?: An Interview with Frank Deford
February 16, 2008 – 4:13 pm
This is from our industrious intern, Josh Eboch. —JS
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To Be Frank
A moment of clarity in the murky world of professional sports
By Josh Eboch
Is it fair to hold athletes, by simple virtue of the size of their paychecks and their level of visibility, to proportionally high moral standards?
This month, Frank Deford, noted […]
Why We Write
December 19, 2007 – 3:07 pm
I met Mike Dunham in 2005. We were in New York City attending the Arts Journalism Institute for Classical Music at Columbia University. Mike had traveled a long way to get there. He’s the award-winning arts editor of the Anchorage Daily News in Anchorage, Alaska. There were 25 journalists in New York that year. Since […]
New Fiction Writing Group
October 2, 2007 – 9:27 am
Some days I like to kid myself into thinking that I’m a real writer. On those rare occasions, I need to kickstart my tale-telling ideas. There’s no better way to do that than elbow my way into a writers’ workshop. So I toddled along to the County Library’s inaugural Fiction Writing Group on Sept. 11, overseen […]
Bestselling Charleston Author Passes
September 17, 2007 – 8:20 am
Farewell to Robert Jordan, who died yesterday from the rare blood disease, amyloidosis. The local writer - real name James Rigney - made the big leagues with his Wheel of Time fantasy series. He was only 58 years old.
Jordan was an integral part of Charleston’s literary scene, instantly recognizable with his beard, hat and glasses. […]
Seeking Weekly Geekly 3.0
May 2, 2007 – 2:36 pm
Well, it’s bad news here on the columnist front. I’ve just heard from my Weekly Geekly columnist Holly Burns — she of the red unmistakably toffee hair, British accent, and peripatetic lifestyle (she recently moved from Charleston to San Francisco via Southeast Asia, if you didn’t know this already by following her insanely popular expat […]
