Author “We were taken to the ‘Oh, My God, Corner,’ a position near the escalator. People arriving see the long line and say “Oh, my God!” and it’s an elf’s job to calm them down and explain that it will take no longer than an hour to see Santa.” It’s hard to cull just one sentence from Sedaris’ embedded reporting on being a helper at Santaland, a place he describes as “a real wonderland” with a path taking visitors… December 20, 2017 A veteran freelancer on pitching The New York Times Magazine and more Reporter (and editor) Paul Tullis has been on both sides of the pitching process; here, he annotates his "Into the Wildfires" proposal December 19, 2017 Liana Aghajanian and the story of immigrants in America, one recipe at a time In her blog "Dining in Diaspora," the Detroit-based writer tries to document the complexity of Armenian identity through the lens of food December 14, 2017 “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.” Why is it great? A few weeks ago I went to an exhibit of Andrew Wyeth’s paintings in Seattle (a strange experience for someone who lives half an hour from… December 13, 2017 Jack Hitt on the birth of live-action TV news in “What Goes Up” For Epic magazine, Hitt writes about a daredevil helicopter pilot for a Phoenix station who "kept breaking the fourth wall of journalism by beating the cops" December 12, 2017 Poetry finds a (calming) home in the hurly-burly of 21st century New York The Poets House is a hidden literary gem in the city where an "old-fashioned" art and nonfiction thrive — and marginalized voices can learn to freely speak December 7, 2017 “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” Why is it great? This gorgeous definition of poetry could easily apply to literary journalism. Some of the best stories aren’t about something we’ve never heard of, but illuminates something… December 6, 2017 Finding lessons for literary journalism in the poetry of Rust Belt chronicler Phil Levine His poems about his hometown, Detroit, were almost cinematic in a precision of detail that would embarrass the most economic writer December 5, 2017 The power of historical nonfiction: “Let me tell you what happened right on this spot a long time ago” A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure December 1, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Bridget Huber and “The Living Disappeared” of Argentina The California Sunday piece unpacks loss and resilience in the aftermath of the country's military dictatorship through the story of one family November 30, 2017 Previous 1 … 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 … 240 Next
