New Development

The following is a Facebook correspondence between Nick and Will from 9 September 2015.

Tom Wolfe

Nick:

Hey Mr. J, how are you doing? I've got a question for you, and an opportunity, I think. In short, I've been trying to crack my way into some form of journalism & I've managed to get a music column at this alt-monthly in Boston and my publisher said it's sort of a local gig but it can be a "you should be listening to this" deal too. And seeing as how I continue and enjoy following Arthur White and the blogs, I thought it might be cool to somehow project Arthur onto a major American city. Let me know what you think—and also, in the spirit of keeping myself busy writing, I'd love to contribute to the blogs if you guys want or need another voice there. Hope everything is going well in Traverse!

Will:

Hey Nick! Thanks for thinking of us! Sounds fantastic! Let me know how you'd like to proceed!

Nick:

You can tell me what you think about this, but my idea was to enter the world of Arthur White as a Tom Wolfe-esque character who emerges with stories about the days he followed them around. The column in Boston would be present-day obviously, but if I were to blog I imagine I would intertwine the philosophical nature of what you guys have already established with a sort of New Journalism style. Journalism of Big Ideas, I guess.

Will:

I love it!

Nick:

Awesome—I'm going to reread some of the blogs today and see if I can't get something going!