Articles Reading (Stephen King) to learn to write Now for something fun and funky, or at least distracting, but these days I’m sure we could all use fun and funky, or at least distracting. A starter’s guide to… June 3, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski A day-in-the-life profile of a grocery store during the coronavirus shutdown With a cell phone, an eye for evocative detail and 50 pages of notes, Brittny Mejia of the Los Angeles Times turned a day at a grocery store into a… June 2, 2020 Trevor Pyle “… the only true medicine I could provide.” —Dr. Jesse Charles, from his time volunteering at Brooklyn Hospital Center during coronavirus May 29, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski The news joins the rituals of mourning EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece is published in partnership with our friends at the Poynter InstituteI was half-way through an essay on how the experience of news — especially in the… May 28, 2020 Roy Peter Clark Reverse engineering your story or project A friend reached out this past week, asking if I would chat with a friend of his. The second friend — I’ll call her J — runs a non-profit news… May 26, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski “When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.” —Ernest Hemingway in "A Moveable Feast" May 20, 2020 Roy Peter Clark A displaced writer picks up a camera — and falls back in love with learning We’re all reinventing ourselves in this suddenly sideways world. So here’s my reinvention story, and the theme that goes with it: Do it for love.The micro of what I did… May 19, 2020 Roy Wenzl Journalism lives at the check-out counter The job I moved back to New Hampshire for was not Shift Supervisor at the local branch of a national drug store chain. Back in February, I folded up five… May 15, 2020 Hilary Niles “Execution is as important as vision.” —U.S. Senator Angus King of Maine May 13, 2020 Jacqui Banaszynski A poet’s distanced farewell to his students is an anthem for the times "... remember this: life is a mystery to be lived; not a problem to be solved." May 12, 2020 Gerald P. Costanzo Previous 1 … 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 … 247 Next