Author An alligator attack sparks a Facebook attack – and an invitation to reconsider meanness I sat on a bench with Wade Livingston the other day. We talked about an alligator attack, a woman who drowned, and the people who saw fit to condemn her for the audacity… September 13, 2018 “No matter how long we study them, the images are unfathomable. No matter how quickly we look away, they are unforgettable.” Why it’s good: There are endless memories and memorials marking yesterday, the 17th anniversary of 9/11. I find it impossible to post about something else, but impossible to choose the… September 12, 2018 Christopher Solomon on how he captured the controversial wolf man of Washington Before Christopher Solomon took on the case of the wolf researcher who ignited a political firestorm, the situation had sparked plenty of regional coverage. In particular, The Seattle Times, where… September 11, 2018 “Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” —Poet Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award September 5, 2018 Rebecca Solnit’s long and winding road through the tangled tale of politics The opening paragraph of Rebecca Solnit’s new LitHub essay, “Why the President Must Be Impeached,” is a single sentence, 88 words long. It is one of the shortest paragraphs in… September 4, 2018 “Do not despair of our present difficulties. We believe always in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here.” This photo released by Hanoi’s Vietnam News Agency shows Lt. Commander John S. McCain III as a prisoner of war in 1967.Coming at the end of his elegant posthumous valedictory… August 29, 2018 Erika Hayasaki on the reality of landing a big freelance story In the second of a two-parter, the former LA Times reporter scrutinizes the first pitch – and then the revision – that earned her a cover piece in Wired August 28, 2018 Parachute reporting in a foreign land: Getting it fast and getting it right To cover the Kilauea volcano, Simon Romero had to push past tourist brochures, myths and cliches to discover a more authentic Hawai'i August 23, 2018 “Words. Words upon the wind. What will endure, perhaps is what I have written. If so, it is enough.” Geraldine Brooks laid that line down in “Secret Chord,” her deeply researched and richly reimagined novel about the life of biblical King David, the psalm-writing, harp-playing, woman-lusting warrior. But they… August 22, 2018 Erika Hayasaki on how to leave the newsroom and kill it as a freelancer Journalist, professor, author, mother – How does she do it all? With passion, persistence, another paycheck and perspective: "I'm not just one story." August 21, 2018 Previous 1 … 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 … 245 Next
