Strictly Q&A

From a Kickstarter about avocados to conviction as an American spy

From a Kickstarter about avocados to conviction as an American spy

How Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian turned 544 days in an Iranian prison into a story about love, journalism and a broken homeland
A writer Instagrams his way back to love ... or something close to it

A writer Instagrams his way back to love … or something close to it

Conversation with Tyrone Beason: How a Seattle Times reporter chronicled his relationship with the streets, and learned to tell a story with his phone
A "final" phone call from the wildfires inspires an unusual, intimate story written under the fire of deadline

A “final” phone call from the wildfires inspires an unusual, intimate story written under the fire of deadline

A conversation with Corina Knoll of The Los Angeles Times: She broke with convention and just wrote it "how I felt it should be told"
A conversation with Tommy Tomlinson: Getting naked in print and public

A conversation with Tommy Tomlinson: Getting naked in print and public

A writer who tells intimate stories of others turns his notebook on himself in a searing memoir that undresses his own and America's obesity
A conversation with Alexandra Petri on conjugating gender and politics

A conversation with Alexandra Petri on conjugating gender and politics

 I‘ve always thought writing should be learned by osmosis. Like if you read enough good books you shouldn’t need to know the exact rules about dangling participles. But I’m a…
Parachute reporting in a foreign land: Getting it fast and getting it right

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
Q&A: How a letter, honesty and patience won the trust of a shamed school cop

Q&A: How a letter, honesty and patience won the trust of a shamed school cop

Washington Post narrative writer Eli Saslow answers an essential question: "How'd he get that guy to talk to him?"
Q&A: Greg Bishop on a quarterback, a suicide and a search for answers

Q&A: Greg Bishop on a quarterback, a suicide and a search for answers

The Sports Illustrated senior writer uses intimate reporting and intricate outlining to weave personal tragedy with societal controversy

Take Two: Avi Selk on spiders, aggregation and writing fast

In the second of a two-parter, the Washington Post reporter describes his process for finding fresh stories from previously published work
Avi Selk eulogizes the long life and too-soon death of Spider 16, and what she taught us

Avi Selk eulogizes the long life and too-soon death of Spider 16, and what she taught us

In his elegiac profile, the Washington Post general assignment reporter talks about finding gems in previously published work, and doing it all on deadline