Roy Christopher
As seen in:
Medium,
CorranCast,
behance.net,
The MIT Press,
Substack,
Boing Boing,
Vulture,
Literary Hub,
PopMatters,
LitReactor
Covers:
music, media, culture, hip-hop, skateboarding
Doesn't Cover:
politics
Interview
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Yes.
Why did you become a journalist?
One of the things I have found when teaching writing to others is that students have the most difficulty coming up with something to write about. More than any other part of the writing process, topic selection stumps them, more than the challenge of the initial blank page, or coming up with titles, thesis statements, headlines, leads, or anything else. I tell them to find something they already like, that they want to know more about, and that they want to tell people about.
That impulse, that desire to tell others about something cool, is the core reason I do just about everything I do. It's the reason I'm a writer. It's the reason I'm a teacher. It's the reason I made zines. It's the reason I made websites. It's the reason I'm writing this right now.
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Give them something they can't get anywhere else.
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
On my bike or my skateboard.
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Thrasher
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