Author Julia Shipley @JuliaShipley3 After the fires: A surprising story of a haunted hero and the ashes of regret Lizzie Johnson of The San Francisco Chronicle revisits the headlines to ask about the aftermath. Not all endings are happily-ever-after. September 18, 2018 Feeding the world – and feeling despair A former farmer turns to writing to uncover the global crisis of farmer suicides – and plants the seeds of a response June 12, 2018 The Power of Narrative conference captures the #MeToo zeitgeist With writers like Roxane Gay, the Globe's Sacha Pfeiffer and The New York Times' Emily Steel, the yearly gathering focused on the uncomfortable truths of sexual abuse March 29, 2018 Eva Holland and “Get Schooled in the No-Nonsense Art of Survival” Writing for Outside magazine on an "Extreme Polar" camp, she decides to focus on fun -- and wonder -- instead of macho explorer suffering March 15, 2018 “If I were hauling 600 miles across the Arctic, I’d choose J. for stamina and his uncomplaining nature … “ —Leanne Shapton, The New York Times Magazine, March 20, 2016. March 14, 2018 The thing with feathers: Burkhard Bilger and his haute-couture “plumassier” In his profile of a fashion creative who works exclusively with feathers, The New Yorker reporter shows off his own plumage in the beautiful writing February 27, 2018 Finding the story in the parentheses and other adventures with Jeffrey Stern In this Vanity Fair piece, a freelancer takes readers on a wild ride in a bulletproof car with a Kurdish fighter turned savior February 15, 2018 Why’s This So Good? (The wonderful) Dan Barry and “The Lost Children of Tuam” The New York Times reporter writes, with his trademark humanity, of a terrible secret unearthed at an Irish "mother and baby" home January 15, 2018 “There is a time to write and a time to walk and a time to reflect and a time to act and I come unwillingly to this journal today, wanting to do something less reflective and feeling that I sometimes strip myself of my most reasonable attributes, bent over this machine.” —John Cheever, “The Journals of John Cheever,” 1991. January 10, 2018 “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.” —David Sedaris, "SantaLand Diaries" from "Holidays on Ice" December 20, 2017 Previous 1 2 3 Next
