The dilettantes

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  • Author: Hingston, Michael
    Summary:

    The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a news section run the only way self-taught journalists know how--sloppily. Alex and Tracy are two of The Peak's editors, staring down graduation and struggling to keep the paper relevant to an increasingly indifferent student body. But trouble looms large when a big-money free daily comes to the west-coast campus, threatening to swallow what remains of their readership whole. It'll take the scoop of a lifetime to save their beloved campus rag. An exposé about the mysterious filmed-on-campus viral video? Some good old-fashioned libel? Or what about that fallen Hollywood star, the one who's just announced he's returning to Simon Fraser University to finish his degree?

    Contents:
    • Front Cover; Simon Fraser University Campus Map; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Epigraph; Jsut; Unconfirmed Sources; Comic Sans; Big Lipton; What Colour is a Sunset?; Clubs Days Sign-up Sheet-Final; Those Squiggles Are What We Call Punctuation; The Worst Thing Ever; Style Guide; A Tale of Tutorials; No Soap Radio; 'Back to School' for Troubled Holtz; Stet/Sic; The Board Meeting; Collected Poems; FPA 137 Syllabus, Spring 2009; Triple Nope; Irregularities on the Campaign Trail; Nerves; Method Acting; One Hundred Beers; Claude's Interlude.
    Genre: Canadian fiction, Humorous fiction
    Original Publisher: Calgary, Alberta , Freehand Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781554811823

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    1554811821

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    9781460402504

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    1460402502

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Abstract

The Peak: a university student newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a news section run the only way self-taught journalists know how--sloppily. Alex and Tracy are two of The Peak's editors, staring down graduation and struggling to keep the paper relevant to an increasingly indifferent student body. But trouble looms large when a big-money free daily comes to the west-coast campus, threatening to swallow what remains of their readership whole. It'll take the scoop of a lifetime to save their beloved campus rag. An exposé about the mysterious filmed-on-campus viral video? Some good old-fashioned libel? Or what about that fallen Hollywood star, the one who's just announced he's returning to Simon Fraser University to finish his degree?

Genre
Canadian fiction
Humorous fiction
Publisher (Source)

Calgary, Alberta

Freehand Books

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