Author Keeping it simple: On plain language A few years ago an intern did a study of the writing that showed up in our newspaper. He ran our stories through a computer program that measured the reading… May 8, 2014 National Magazine Award winners + bonus reads Five stories that you must stop and read, right now: last night’s winners in the National Magazine Awards for feature writing, reporting, essays, multimedia and fiction (you don’t need us… May 6, 2014 Ariel Levy’s personal and impossibly painful New Yorker essay “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” Levy’s narrative voice is by turn darkly comic, confessional and challenging. May 6, 2014 “Why’s this (sentence) so good?” Editor’s note: This is the inaugural installment of our “Why’s this (sentence) so good?” series, in which a writer analyzes a favorite line from a piece of journalistic storytelling. As… April 28, 2014 In praise of the sentence The first chapter of How to Write a Sentence (and How to Read One), by Stanley Fish, begins with this paragraph:In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a… April 25, 2014 Writing the Book: Profiling the Sabine River My story might interest other small-timers with big ambitions. Believe it or not, a four-part series in a local newspaper launched my career as an author. My first book, Running… April 22, 2014 The Music of Narrative: Songs from great literary journalism A story without sound lies too dead on the page. Imagine “Mrs. Kelly’s Monster,” by Jon Franklin, without the pop … pop … pop of the operating-room sensors. Or Tom… April 17, 2014 Notable Narrative: David Abel and the Richard family, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Our latest Notable Narrative, "For Richard family, loss and love," is a two-part series by David Abel* of the Boston Globe. Abel spent six months with the Richards, a family of… April 17, 2014 The 2014 Pulitzers: A gap year for features The Pulitzer judges’ decision* not to award a prize in Features Writing on Monday was disappointing but not unprecedented.** The last (and only other) gap occurred 10 years ago, when… April 15, 2014 Narrative flashback: Kelly, Kirn, Guillermoprieto, Woo, Kaminer, Krulwich and Hart talk storytelling’s future and form Storyboard isn’t the only Nieman Foundation publication with a rich craft archive. Our venerable sister magazine Nieman Reports maintains a trove of material on narrative and storytelling, and we’ll be… April 10, 2014 Previous 1 … 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 … 240 Next
