Cate Lineberry's Smithsonian article about Nan Chrisholm's career is interesting enough, but weakly formulated. The finished product is, for all intents and purposes, a transcript of their interview. The article reads very much like an interview with a celebrity in a style magazine of some sort--connoting a lack of substance and also lacking in the interviewer's personal interpretation. Chrisholm's responses to the questions are thorough and informative but the article really suffers for the absence of the writer. Although I didn't appreciate the article from a format-reader's perspective, as a fellow business writer I picked up some tips on the types of questions I should be asking in my profile interview.
I'm not sure what's going on with the title of this article. It seems rather disconnected to the actual content of the article. It almost feels like the title is trying to imitate a personal advertisement for Chisholm, but if so, the joke falls flat. Again, more presence of the writer's perspective would have provided the opportunity to connect the title more closely to the content.
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