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Steve Chawkins

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Steve Chawkins has been a writer and editor at newspapers in Colorado, New Mexico and California. He retired in 2015 after 21 years at the Los Angeles Times.

“He watched a mouse saunter up the electric cord leading to the nonfunctioning clock over the hotel bar and asked the Chinese waitress in German whether it was a tiger.”

This vivid, funny, terrific sentence could have been drawn from Lewis Carroll, but it’s from the middle of a deadline story on the frustrations of two “peace commissions” that were unable to keep…
March 1, 2017
The art of the obituary: It's a dying one

The art of the obituary: It’s a dying one

Forget making little dolls out of corn cobs or embroidering samplers with snippets of homey wisdom on them: If it’s a dying art you’re after, look to the news obituary.[pq]Obit…
February 21, 2017