{"id":22,"date":"2006-06-29T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=22"},"modified":"2006-06-29T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T17:17:14","slug":"andree-seu-on-writing-and-faking-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Andree Seu on Writing and Faking It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[first posted August 16, 2003] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/articles\/7608\">This week\u2019s issue of World Magazine<\/a> includes another great essay by one of my favorite essayists\/columnists\/journalists (whichever label fits best) Andree Seu. She says, \u201cWriters know that you can find a source to say anything you want, so they move heaven and earth to scare up an expert who agrees with them.\u201d That and the pressures of marketing, whose goal is to turn a profit, makes some reporting and even fiction writing an exercise in building a pre-determined product. For some news sources, the stories they report are meant primarily to earn them money, not inform their readers. The right to know, if it exists, is subject to the desire for profit. She ends her essay expressing disappointment over the report that Tom Clancy doesn\u2019t write all of his novels. \u201cI keep wondering about the poor schmo who writes for Mr. Clancy and doesn&#8217;t get his name on the jacket,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago, Ms. Seu told me that she was preparing her essays for possible publication in book form. Whether that pans out, that is to say if it\u2019s in the cards she\u2019s been dealt (I love American gambling and gold rush metaphors), I hope she has a book of some sort published while I\u2019m still around to read it. I&#8217;m sure it will have more heart and thought than at least half of what&#8217;s published that year. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldmag.com\/products\/world_book_seu.cfm?\">That book or a precursor to it now exists<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[first posted August 16, 2003] This week\u2019s issue of World Magazine includes another great essay by one of my favorite essayists\/columnists\/journalists (whichever label fits best) Andree Seu. She says, \u201cWriters know that you can find a source to say anything you want, so they move heaven and earth to scare up an expert who agrees &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=22\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andree Seu on Writing and Faking It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}