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MORT PERSKY

on the art of the newspaper column.

Photograph by Ralph Schoenstein

John Avlon, Jesse Angelo, and Errol Louis
Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columnists
Overlook Press, September 2011. 432 pp.

A mere 60 years ago, at the front end of my love-hate affair with the published word, I went to work for a “real” newspaper, the first one willing to pay an almost salary-like sum for my dubious services. The paper was the Herald in Augusta, Georgia. It subscribed to a feature service called NEA, which sold columns and other stories in a one-price package deal that the Herald and many other papers seemed to find irresistible. Unlike its à la carte rivals, whose wares were typesetter-ready, NEA delivered its viands neatly laid out on printed pages that looked attractive to editors.

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