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So you want to write book? A long journey from newspaper reporter to book author

So you want to write book? A long journey from newspaper reporter to book author

In "The Diary of a Misfit," Casey Parks' had to let go of some journalistic boundaries to write about being queer in the religious, rural South
September 6, 2022
The Pitch: Landing a "definitive narrative" in The Atavist Magazine

The Pitch: Landing a “definitive narrative” in The Atavist Magazine

Editor Seyward Darby: "I definitely want people who are willing to strip a story down to its basics and figure out how to build it back up."
August 18, 2022
Four years of reporting follows new threads in a previously reported crime story

Four years of reporting follows new threads in a previously reported crime story

Katia Savchuk spent a year pre-reporting before she pitched The Atavist on a nuanced story of crime and mental illness
August 17, 2022
Not just SayWhat, but SezWho?

Not just SayWhat, but SezWho?

For a time in the early 1990s, I wrote narrative journalism for a business magazine. One of my better efforts recounted the fight for control of an investment bank. Someone…
August 12, 2022
Unlearning old-school lessons from a J-school education

Unlearning old-school lessons from a J-school education

Two months into my just-the-facts-ma’am, inverted pyramid life as a novice reporter assigned to cover every commission had that ever been formed anywhere in any municipality on Earth at any…
August 11, 2022
Do Not Erase! the magic that happens on deadline

Do Not Erase! the magic that happens on deadline

A fave recent story find: a tight little feature in the Boston Globe: ‘Please do not erase’: A treasured whiteboard at Boston’s Children Hospital has not been touched for 15…
August 2, 2022
How Rolling Stone revisited a mass tragedy to 'humanize the horrendous'

How Rolling Stone revisited a mass tragedy to ‘humanize the horrendous’

In the first half of 2021, Matt Sullivan and his family took refuge in Miami from the pandemic in New York City, and to finish his first book, “Can’t Knock…
July 26, 2022
Shaping a historic narrative: The Jan. 6 hearings as story craft

Shaping a historic narrative: The Jan. 6 hearings as story craft

Much attention has been rightly paid to the congressional hearings into events before, during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. By any account, it qualifies…
July 21, 2022
Raise your glasses to four lessons all writers can learn by judging craft beer

Raise your glasses to four lessons all writers can learn by judging craft beer

Maybe not 99, but at least a few dozen bottles of beer are along the wall. We take one down, pass it around, make sure the barcode on the bottle…
July 15, 2022
So you want to write a book? The risks and rewards of memoir

So you want to write a book? The risks and rewards of memoir

For well over a decade, my memoir was a perennial backburner project. I would vow to carve out time to write each week, but work or life always took precedence.…
July 6, 2022