Author All the narrative edification you need: our 2012 conference roundup It’s time for our annual almost-spring listing of 2012 writing events and conferences. From California to Texas and Boston, there are options to work on your writing or storytelling skills… February 21, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 31: Susan Orlean maps obsession Susan Orlean’s “Orchid Fever” first ran in The New Yorker on January 23, 1995. It had a second life as a book, and a third as a movie, in which… February 17, 2012 What we're reading: kung-fu college, the new immortals, and life in isolation Reflections on Tiananmen Square 20 years on. A look at the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons today. A father rolling through an infantile old age as part of… February 16, 2012 The essence of story, in a 358-word song When I was little, my mama worked the early shift at the seafood plant. She’d drop me off at my Aunt Janice’s house before dawn and they’d lay me down… February 14, 2012 Meg Kissinger on writing the tough stories Our February Editors’ Roundtable tackled “The law creates barriers to getting care for the mentally ill,” a story by Meg Kissinger of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Addressing the difficult question… February 8, 2012 February Editors’ Roundtable: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on patients’ rights Our February Roundtable looks at “Law creates barriers to getting care for mentally ill,” by Meg Kissinger. In her narrative, Kissinger touches on violence, mental health and 40 years of… February 7, 2012 Audio danger: NPR’s Kelly McEvers on trauma and the calculus of risk [The second installment in an ongoing series of posts by Julia Barton about audio narratives. –Ed.]The title of this series, “Audio danger,” is mostly tongue-in-cheek. But not in the case… February 3, 2012 Thomas Lake calls out Michael Jordan If character is destiny, you wouldn’t know it from reading our latest Notable Narrative. In “Did This Man Really Cut Michael Jordan?,” Thomas Lake introduces Clifton “Pop” Herring, the high… February 2, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 30: Sally Jenkins picks Kwame Brown The thing about being the first pick in the NBA draft – especially if you’re 19-year-old Kwame Brown, the youngest No. 1 pick ever – is that you become the subject of… January 31, 2012 Beth Macy on Edna Buchanan, sources in conflict, and stories too sad to tell Our January Editors’ Roundtable looked at “After the battle, Mike Sword’s war within,” a story by Roanoke Times reporter Beth Macy about the death of an Air Force veteran in Virginia after… January 27, 2012 Previous 1 … 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 … 245 Next
