Mark Kemp
As seen in:
The New York Times,
Bandcamp Daily,
Rolling Stone,
The Charlotte Observer,
Greensboro News & Record,
San Francisco Weekly,
Our State,
Creative Loafing Charlotte,
Acoustic Guitar
Covers:
North Carolina, music, culture, outdoors
Interview
What was your first job as a journalist?
Cop reporter
Have you ever used a typewriter?
All through college.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Stephen Colbert
Why did you become a journalist?
I had this crazy notion as a misfit teen that I wanted to be a cross between Woodward and Bernstein and Hunter S. Thompson.
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
The stories that came together in my book Dixie Lullaby.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Listen. Learn. Write.
What's your favorite drink?
Water
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Swimming
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
At the moment, The Atlantic.
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