Author Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer <a href="https://andreapitzer.com/bio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Andrea Pitzer</strong></a> is the author of three books of narrative nonfiction that explore untold histories. She was the editor of Nieman Storyboard from 2009-2012, June Editors’ Roundtable No. 2: The Seattle Times, a first pitch, and the Queen of Samoas We're fine-tuning our Editors’ Roundtable, moving toward more frequent postings and smaller groups of editors looking at each story. As part of those changes, today we highlight our second June… June 15, 2011 Afghanistan stories: Foreign Policy tells a bleak "Groom’s Tale" Our latest Notable Narrative, “A Groom’s Tale,” introduces us to Ozyr Khul, who is about to get married in Oqa, Afghanistan. Anna Badkhen, who wrote the story for Foreign Policy, has… June 9, 2011 Stephanie McCrummen on bare-bones writing, "working backwards" and editors' good ideas Yesterday, our Editors’ Roundtable dissected “Ala. tornado twists two families together” by Stephanie McCrummen, which follows the development of an unlikely connection in the aftermath of a tornado. Late last… June 7, 2011 June Editors’ Roundtable: The Washington Post finds order in chaos For the first Roundtable of the month, our editors looked at “Ala. tornado twists two families together” by Stephanie McCrummen from The Washington Post. The story, published early in May,… June 6, 2011 From research to story: more from the BIO 2011 conference A bevy of biographers gathered in May in Washington, D.C., at the second annual Compleat Biographer Conference to discuss how to chase down subjects and make their lives into great stories.… June 2, 2011 What we’re reading: a roundup of tornado stories The next Editors’ Roundtable, which will run on Monday, looks at a story on the tornado that hit Rainsville, Ala., earlier this month. Unfortunately, tragedy has struck again, and journalists… May 31, 2011 Esquire goes home with Philip Roth Our latest Notable Narrative turns cliché upside down to see what will fall out of its pockets. Maybe you can’t go home again, but Esquire’s Scott Raab wants to see… May 27, 2011 The power of place: Robert Caro on setting at the 2011 BIO Conference “Show, don’t tell” is a mantra of narrative writers everywhere, but even the most useful adage can lose meaning with repetition. Before a lunchtime audience of writers at the Second… May 24, 2011 Amy Ellis Nutt on writing a Pulitzer-winning story: tell "readers something they don’t know" The Star-Ledger's Amy Ellis Nutt won this year's Pulitzer Prize for feature writing with “The Wreck of the Lady Mary,” her five-chapter story on the sinking of a scallop boat off… May 20, 2011 What we’re watching: musical fracking, award-winning photojournalism, and documentaries from Cannes From a groovy explainer to a broken contortionist, here are some visual experiences worth a look.“My Water’s on Fire Tonight (The Fracking Song),” by David Holmes, Andrew Bean, Niel Bekker,… May 18, 2011 Previous 1 … 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 … 33 Next