| ...Having grown up in the shadow of the great curmudgeon, I know of no higher journalistic award. Excellent, AndyJackson. Good to hear there are other H. L. Mencken fans in FReeper World. Are you a journalist or live in Baltimore? For those not familiar the Bad Boy of Baltimore, I highly recommend The Impossible H. L. Mencken, a well-edited collection of Mencken's finest work by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. Reading Mencken, you begin to appreciate what real journalism is. But Mencken was not only a journalist; he was also the most respected literary critic of his time. |
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