Exploring the art and craft of story
By Jessica Wapner • February 21, 2019
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By Jill U. Adams • February 20, 2019
By Ben Goldfarb • February 19, 2019
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A defense of the summary nut as it is used in variations by Ken Burns, the Beatles and Shakespeare
When a summary nut beeps like the back-up horn on a truck or blinds like a searchlight, it can ruin the magic of a narrative
A dead-tree dinosaur writes from the edge of extinction
How Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian turned 544 days in an Iranian prison into a story about love, journalism and a broken homeland
Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker uses the narrative of one child in one school to reveal the widespread costs of "separate and unequal"
Ten twinkling takeaways from a panel with Craig Welch and Brooke Jarvis
From "The Overstory," by novelist Richard Powers
How a ProPublica Illinois team used private records and an innovative collaboration with their sources to produce an investigative narrative
A writer learns to see beyond the obvious to the creative
When you're stuck as deadline looms, here are ways to get on with it
