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How Jim Dwyer found the words to write about 9/11

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By Roy Clark
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When I see the bylines of certain reporters, I will read whatever they write. Jim Dwyer of The New York Times is one of those. Jim became, in my mind, the prose-poet of 9/11, the journalist who has, with a special decency and power, managed to chronicle the lingering effects of a horrible day.
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The writing lesson hidden inside ‘The Odyssey’

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By Roy Clark
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Editor’s note: This essay was originally published in 2012 and has been lightly edited. With “The Odyssey” back in the cultural conversation ahead of Christopher Nolan’s star-studded adaptation, opening July 17, we’re revisiting one of Roy Peter Clark’s favorite writing lessons: “Get the name of the dog.” Our dog Rex, a Jack Russell terrier, turned 18 years old this week.
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Is this sentence in the Declaration of Independence really the greatest ever written?

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By Roy Clark
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I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and biographer of Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, Henry Kissinger and Benjamin Franklin. This timely text coincides with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, a milestone for a democratic form of government that suddenly seems fragile.
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