1. Worth thinking about the structure of David Carr's pieces.
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2. This Carr piece on Philip Seymour Hoffmann is a good example of a structure Carr often used:https://medium.com/@carr2n/the-wrestler-35b8b00ce82c …
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3. The article begins with an offhand anecdote, not a big bang but an observed moment, then it rambles.
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4. For most of the piece, Carr seems to be circling around the Hoffmann, storytelling with no necessary direction.
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5. But everything comes into focus in the last two paragraphs, about struggling with addiction, which have tremendous force.
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6.The Colombo strategy of interrogation: start casual, drop hints & then as the suspect (or reader) relaxes, push the inescapable conclusion
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7. Re-reading Carr's pieces last night, I was struck by how artful they were in their seemingly artlessness, crafty in deceptive casualness
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8. If I was teaching a J-school class, I'd have students think about those last paragraphs Carr built towards, why they came as surprises.
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9. Of course, the type of writing Carr did depended on trust. Trust the reader won't stop at first paragraph, won't scan, will take the time
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@theturner Yep. In quite a few Carr pieces, the nutgraff is the last paragraph. Completely violates conventions.
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