Author Nell Lake Skye’s the Limit DeGregory chronicles the efforts of a 13-year-old devout Christian girl and her backstage mom to make the girl a pop star. DeGregory deftly writes for both believer and nonbeliever: Her… November 16, 2004 Mrs. Kelly’s Monster Franklin leads his readers through the grisly, tense terrain of brain surgery, moment by moment. We experience the story as if it were live reporting: Franklin tells it in present… November 16, 2004 The Hurt Between the Lines In this final installment of the Times race series, a reporter turns her attention to another journalistic effort to address race in America. The Akron Beacon Journal won a Pulitzer… November 16, 2004 Who Gets to Tell a Black Story? This piece is about the making of “The Corner,” a TV series about black drug addicts, told from their perspective. The script was based on a book by a white… November 16, 2004 Which Man’s Army Holmes spent a year reporting this story about two drill sergeants—one black and one white—in a company at Fort Knox, Ky. The piece chronicles their jockeying for power, advancement and… November 16, 2004 Lost in the Music Stabler’s series about a black music prodigy is well-reported and -written. We like the rich detail, the elegant descriptions, deft characterizations. What seems left out are more insights into why… November 16, 2004 Two Jobs and a Sense of Hope In this final, sad chapter of the series, a West African immigrant, Adama Camara, scrubs toilets and wipes tables for 16 hours a day. The world is a grimy, dreary,… November 16, 2004 Dreaming Against the Odds In this second installment of Hull’s series, you’ll find this small example of how even a newspaper article (the voice of which is usually straight and communitarian) can include irony:… November 16, 2004 The Exorcist in Love The subject of this profile is not like most of us. Is she crazy? A hustler? Or does she know things we can’t? We need the writer to make sense… November 16, 2004 Against All Odds Suskind won a 1995 Pulitzer for feature writing for this story and its sequel. He later published a book: “A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner… November 16, 2004 Previous 1 … 23 24 25 26 27 Next
