Articles Remember His Name Smith writes in a folksy, manly voice—as if he were saying, “gather round, boys, and I’ll tell you a story about daring, heroism and doing the right thing, even when… September 17, 2006 Nell Lake Reliving the Morning of Death This narrative succeeds because of the clarity with which it sequences events and because of its evocative detail. Its wrenching emotional content springs from such detail: the mother’s instructions for… September 17, 2006 Nell Lake The Eye of the Storm This narrative of horror and escape is plainly and clearly told. Published the day after the 9/11 attacks on New York, it must have helped readers begin to hold the… September 17, 2006 Nell Lake Fighting for Life 50 Floors Up, With One Tool and Ingenuity The efficiency of this piece is remarkable. We thought the use of time and floor numbers a tight and evocative way of both structuring the piece and crystallizing a chaotic… September 17, 2006 Nell Lake At a Ground Zero Hotel, Room for Miracles This piece mixes humor and gravity in telling the story of a man who narrowly escaped from the Marriott World Trade Center, a hotel that collapsed when the Twin Towers… September 17, 2006 Nell Lake Sons of the Mothers Marilynn Rosenthal is on an obsessive quest for the truth. Trying to understand her son’s death, she even travels to the United Arab Emirates in search of the mother of… September 12, 2006 Nell Lake Enter the Therapy Zone Trost’s own daughter is doing well, she reports, after years of innovative and experimental treatments for her combination of learning and behavioral problems. In this piece Trost returns to that… August 31, 2006 Nell Lake My Dear Donor A woman on the verge of death is saved by a bone marrow transplant. She seeks out her donor after her recovery. They fall in love, and the rest is…… August 31, 2006 Nell Lake A New Orleans Home is Reborn, With Persistence This piece depends on its strong, admirable protagonist, Artie Folse, who refuses to say die. As other homes fester and are torn down around his, he gets to work and,… August 31, 2006 Nell Lake Writing for Their Lives As we read this series, we thought of Chip Scanlan’s discussion of using private records for insights into characters. This entire series is, in a sense, based on the private… August 31, 2006 Nell Lake Previous 1 … 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 … 246 Next
