Author “Why’s this so good?” No. 92: David Foster Wallace and the view from the Midwest David Foster Wallace grew up in the Midwest but it was not really his home. Yet in September 2001, he was teaching at Illinois State University and living in Bloomington.… May 20, 2014 Two writers, one tough subject Two notable narratives for your consideration this week, both on the loss of a loved one, to cancer:In “The Day I Started Lying to Ruth,” a long reported essay in New… May 16, 2014 What we’re watching: Scholars talking literary journalism This year’s International Association for Literary Journalism Studies* started today in Paris, and you can follow along via #IALJS9 or watch the events live. The full conference program is here. Ten recommended panels or presentations:“Hearing Their Voices:… May 15, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic Tom Wolfe and I met twice, in his Upper East Side home, and to answer the inevitable question, no: He never wore a white suit. Dark blazer, dark pants, no hat.… May 13, 2014 #crowdsourced: great examples of the write-around Last week, a student asked for notable examples of the write-around, that subgenre in which the journalist had limited to no access with the story subject. The most famous examples… May 9, 2014 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 New Niemans! May is bittersweet for the Nieman Foundation, as we send one class of fellows back into the world and welcome another, for a year of study at Harvard. Here, courtesy… 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 Previous 1 … 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 … 245 Next
