a love letter to our journalistic comrades

dear comrade,

for the past year, we here at the sof have been fielding your post-graduate questions (and intermittenly attending wine and cheese soirees). we have shielded you from the internship storm. we have had cocktails to celebrate your mighty successes and late night IM conversations to quel your cover letter fears. we shop for freelancing books together and trade links to jes's freelance stories like they were baseball cards.

but the one question we can never seem to answer fully for you is: should i do what i love? or do what i do - to do what i love on the side?. mostly because we don't know either. which is why i marched myself over to the new york public library and set out to find this book.

even though i know katy mccoll is a fantastic writer for jane, i almost broke into hives over fear that sections like "when you don't know what you want to do" and "how to survive being an assistant" would be full of run-of-the-mill advice.

while it may not answer the question for which it was named (i'm still on the chapter for directors), mccoll speaks to you as if she's had her ear pressed against the door of the room where we hold our conversations. i give it three toots on the sof tug boat and hope you pop into a library to read it for yourself.

and just in case this book doesn't save my life, i plan to read this one next.

sincerely,
nicole s.