Articles From five minutes to finished Hang out at a journalism workshop, anywhere in the world, and inevitably the subject comes up: We’re being asked to produce more and more, in less and less time.It was… October 18, 2019 Jacqui Banaszynski Ditching “monkey mind” to find joy while writing Two days to deadline. You haven’t written a word — just scribbles and a few sad-faced glyphs in the margins of a skeletal outline. You’re surrounded by great raw material… October 16, 2019 Hope McLeod Lessons from biographer Robert Caro’s instructive mini-memoir “Working” If there were no Robert Caro, he could not easily be invented. Consider the job description: Commit your career to exhaustive research into the lives of two legendarily powerful men,… October 15, 2019 Don Nelson “The third is when you can make a basket without worrying about whether it is good enough.” —From "Deep River," a novel by Karl Marlantes October 11, 2019 Jacqui Banaszynski Stories that unfold — and pain that is measured — from the ground up You can almost smell the cedar-hewn totem poles and see them rise from the soil, so evocative is “We Didn’t Stand A Chance,” Joshua Hunt’s personal essay about opioid abuse… October 9, 2019 Trevor Pyle Subjectivity, hugs and craft: Podcasting as extreme narrative journalism The literary journalism movement unleashed by Capote, Didion, Mailer and Wolfe in the 1960s is reinventing itself in a remarkably powerful way October 8, 2019 Siobhan McHugh “How dare you…” —Climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, to the United Nations September 27, 2019 Tom Warhover “Life is too short to write something boring.” A conversation with Los Angeles native and magazine journalist Mary Melton, who profiled a famous photographer in 36 exposures, as in a roll of film September 26, 2019 Kim Cross The story in the music — and the music in how the story is written I fall to pieces every time I hear a recording of Patsy Cline singing “Crazy” or “Sweet Dreams” — or “I Fall to Pieces” — and it’s not just because… September 26, 2019 Chuck Haga “Problems that are not seen cannot be addressed.” —From "She Said," by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of The New York Times September 20, 2019 Jacqui Banaszynski Previous 1 … 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 … 252 Next
