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Amy Ellis Nutt: “Our Stories Choose Us”

Amy Ellis Nutt Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt is the author of three non-fiction books, including the recently released “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.” The book…
Geraldine Brooks: “You might aspire to art but it better start as craft”

Geraldine Brooks: “You might aspire to art but it better start as craft”

Geraldine BrooksAustralian-born Geraldine Brooks was a prize-winning journalist before becoming a critically acclaimed novelist. Brooks, a Columbia Journalism School graduate and a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who covered…
Ari Daniel: "It's so important to show stories that have hopeful threads."

Ari Daniel: “It’s so important to show stories that have hopeful threads.”

If you heard a story last week on NPR’s “Here and Now” about a new kind of nuclear reactor or perhaps remember a recent piece on PRI’s “The World” about…

Jessica Stern on Memoir, Denial and Terror

Jessica Stern / Photo by Joel Benjamin Jessica Stern, a Harvard lecturer and fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, is known…
5 Questions for Tyler Hicks

5 Questions for Tyler Hicks

Some of the most compelling, controversial images of conflict and terror in recent memory — a woman hiding with her children, motionless on a restaurant floor, a man carrying a boy’s body along…
5 Questions for David Finkel

5 Questions for David Finkel

David Finkel describes his “deliberate” reporting process at the Nieman FoundationIn selecting David Finkel for one of its “genius” grants in 2012, the MacArthur Foundation described him as “a journalist whose…
5 Questions for Jill Lepore

5 Questions for Jill Lepore

No wonder Jill Lepore describes herself as a “code-switcher.” She’s both a prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Her most…