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  • Senior Editor and Writer, ESPN
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Tom Junod: In memory of former Atlanta magazine editor-in-chief Lee Walburn

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By Tom Junod Verified
| Atlanta Magazine Verified
Photograph by Emmett Martin Lee Walburn was a proud man. He was proud of being a certain kind of man—a country man who succeeded in the city and then went back to the country. He was proud of being stubborn as a stone and weepy as a cloud. He was proud of his beard, which he trimmed but never changed. He was proud of the accolades he won as an editor of Atlanta magazine but not as proud as he was of the stories he published. He was proud of coddling his writers. He was proud of scaring his bosses.
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Our Week in Reviews: 5/9/26

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By Tom Junod Verified, Maria Semple
| Washington Independent Review of Books Verified
Delivery: A Novel by Christopher Hebert (Regal House Publishing). Reviewed by Randy Cepuch. “Somehow, his detours include visits with the girlfriend he seems to be losing, as well as with teammates eager to talk him out of skipping tomorrow’s game.
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Tom Junod on Finding the Right Trick

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By Tom Junod Verified
| Literary Hub Verified
This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Article continues after advertisement You have some tricks. You’re a magazine writer, after all—you have to write a lot of different kinds of stories, and sometimes tricks are what gets you to the end of them. Feeling too prissily self-conscious about the quality of your prose? Curse your f-ing head off, then remove all the blue language before you hand in the story. Feeling your story becoming impersonal?
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