![]() ![]() To me, the beat generation really did start in San Francisco, not New York City. My uncle was one of the only Asian beatniks in the beatnik scene in the fifties here. LS : So what originally brought you to San Francisco? I grew up reading The New Yorker magazine, and I always used to marvel that there was never a typo, but now there are. My third rule is the hardest of all: No typos. There are occasions of repetition, and you have to minimize it. I’ve empirically evolved my own style, trying to desperately capture the fun part of being in a live interview, which is talking back and forth. Second, every word must earn its keep, but if you remove too much, you risk damaging the style. I have my own rules of editing, which are very simple. Like in the first paragraph, the 4 W’s and the H: who, when, where, why, and how. I took a journalism class, and they really teach you useful stuff. ![]() At least that’s another avenue to make a living, but it does kinda require training. ![]() ![]() Actually, back then I don’t think UC Berkeley had a journalism department. I was trying to continue my stupid English major at UC Berkeley, and I didn’t know that the only thing you can do with that degree is be a member of academia. I went to one year of grad school at state college, which people don’t know. ![]()
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