Following up on book recommendations that appeared in this space on Dec. 17, here are more ideas from friends whose opinions on what to read are worth sharing:
Newspaper writing teaches humility. "It ain t art, and you ain t Hemingway," more than one city editor has growled at a straining-to-rise cub. A newspaper is a factory; it employs mechanics and craftspeople, but whatever art its employees produce is produced on their own time.