UNDERNEWS

Online report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.

January 18, 2015

Words & writing links

Words & writing news
 
ESSAYS ON WRITING
Post literate America
Words & meaning
The missing predicate in my life
SomeRulesForWriting L.L.C. (SRFW)!
A few thoughts about writing
Words and cruelty
The rise of "fuck"
What's a humanities?
Cliche challenge
Harder to read than Ulysses
Just words on words
 
 
OTHER
Pocket paradigms
Quotations
 
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ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

A truly independent journalist with his feet firmly grounded in the reality of neighborhoods and everyday people. -- Patrick Mazza, Progressive Populist

A truly original voice in American journalism: humorous and plain spoken and filled with common sense -- Jay Walljasper, Utne Reader

Inimitable -- Mother Jones Magazine

Sam's a cynical cat -- Marion Barry

Sam's one of the few independent voices left. The press today is either extreme or special interest or else just establishment, an extension of the corporate spirit -- Sen. Eugene McCarthy,

One of a small group of whites with whom many blacks would trust their political lives - Chuck Stone, Washingtonian.

A reputation for wit, intelligence and anger. -- Claude Lewis, Chicago Tribune

Smith is an island of reason and information in a sea of narcissistic blather. -- City Paper, Washington

Whatever the debate, the Review's sharp critiques encourage us to look out our window, notice and act upon what we see, and also to look further -- to the rest of the country and globe -- to see how the organized big world interacts with our more spontaneous small worlds. - Utne Reader

SAM SMITH'S BOOKS

  • Sam Smith's Great American Political Repair Manual
  • Why Bother? Getting a Life in a Locked Down Land
  • Shadows of Hope: A Freethinker's Guide to Politics in the Time of Clinton
  • Captive Capital: Colonial Life in Modern Washington

MULTITUDES: The unauthorized memoirs of Sam Smith

  • Introduction
  • Georgetown
  • Becoming
  • Friends: A Quaker education
  • Summer
  • Harvard: Magna cum probation
  • The canaries in Studio A
  • Suspect
  • Hooligan Navy days
  • Seeds
  • How the trouble began
  • Fire
  • Place
  • DC Diary: 1970s
  • DC Diary: 1980s
  • DC Diary: 1990s
  • DC Diary: The new century
  • Going Green
  • The loneliest mile in town
  • Rebel

SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES OF OUR PRINT EDITIONS

THE IDLER 1964-1967

DC GAZETTE 1966-1985

PROGRESSIVE REVIEW 1985-2003

SAM'S MUSIC

  • Sam played in bands - piano and vocals - for some 40 years. This link is to some of these band performances. (They begin after Songs From DC and Freeport)
  • Some songs about DC written by Sam Smith
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