From Marxism Today to the Mail on Sunday: Suzanne Moore on the life of a columnist
November 30th, 2010Posted by Joel Gunter in Events, Freelance, Newspapers
Columnist Suzanne Moore’s career has has taken her, somewhat improbably, from Marxism Today to the Mail on Sunday, via the Guardian, the Independent, the New Statesman, a stab at politics. This weekend gone Moore began writing for the Guardian anew. On Friday she was in Bristol to deliver the annual Benn Lecture.
I never applied to be a newspaper columnist, there’s no job application form, and it certainly wasn’t the family business … I’d always liked reading, but I came from the sort of family where it was seen as a sign of depression.
Listen to full lecture at this link.
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