Day: October 13, 2008

NewSouth author Mark Ethridge recently visited Virginia Commonwealth University as a guest lecturer during the school’s annual Mass Communications Week. Ethridge delivered the Turpin Lecture on Wednesday, October 9, where he talked about journalism and about his novel, Grievances. Students and faculty heard Mark describe how he wanted to create a novel that provided a behind-the-scenes look at the newspaper industry. Mark also talked about the state of print journalism and how he incorporated those ideas into his novel …