At once experiential and professional, hands-on and intellectual, The Writing Life will explore how a journalist/writer lives, what s/he does each day, the books s/he reads and writes, the interactions with editors and publishers, the travel, the solitary laptop hours, the joys, the pains, the hopes, the disappointments...the ambitions, the doubts, the thrills, the deep satisfactions. Encompassing content as diverse as Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, essays by Joan Didion, Stanley Crouch, and E.B. White, and Kerouac's letters, The Writing Life will do what it discovers, as the course itself will become an online version of the very thing it celebrates. Incorporating a component of the evolving online writing life, this new course will be taught by a longtime newspaper reporter/magazine writer/book author who has himself lived a writing life for more than 25 years. Frequent papers will grow out of intense online discussion and a wide variety of fascinating, inspiring reading. Part of the Certificate of Journalism (offered online) but open to all.