Night After Night

Writing, a blog, and a newsletter. By Steve Smith.

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  • Making a list, checking it twice.

    Digging in deep, really deep, to compile year-end lists is both exhilarating and exhausting, illuminating and intimidating. Crucial challenge: Recall the impact of things that happened many months ago, then balance against impact of things that just happened. — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) December 12, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js And you also want to try to ignore the

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  • How I became a professional journalist (hint: you’re looking at it).

    A thread from Twitter, begun as a simple response to someone else's tweet on Thursday… Jobs I did before full-time professional* journalism: BabysitterFloor cleaning/maintenanceBusboyDishwasherKitchen prepRecord store clerkRadio program hostPublicist (* but also wrote for my college paper and freelanced for alt-weeklies mag long before that…) https://t.co/WrBpsT9mXm — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) July 12, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js After

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  • Tweetview: Jennifer Koh plays Chris Cerrone with the Detroit Symphony.

    THREE MINUTES until @DetroitSymphony live webcast of two new pieces, Roshanne Etezady's 'Diamond Rain' and @chriscerrone Violin Concerto (with the fabulous @JenniferKoh1), plus Tchaikovsky's 'Pathétique,' all conducted by @PeterOundjian here: https://t.co/78LDdjtX9F #DSOLive pic.twitter.com/GH8g0Yb7yf — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) May 26, 2018 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js That was a very fine spoken introduction @PeterOundjian just offered… informative, optimistic, funny when

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