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Featured Fellow: Anne Hull

Featured Fellow: Anne Hull

Anne HullClass of 1995A longtime Washington Post reporter, Hull won the Pulitzer for Public Service in 2008, for reporting, with Dana Priest, that exposed substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army…
September 26, 2013
Featured Fellow: J.R. Moehringer

Featured Fellow: J.R. Moehringer

J.R. MoehringerNieman Class of 2001Here’s just some of the telling hardware Moehringer has taken home for his stories: Pulitzer Prize (2000) for feature writing; Pulitzer Prize finalist (1998) for feature…
September 18, 2013
Featured Fellow: Elizabeth Leland

Featured Fellow: Elizabeth Leland

Elizabeth LelandNieman Class of 1992A Charleston, S.C., native and a longtime Charlottean, Leland has written about the Carolinas way of life for more than 25 years. Charlotte Observer readers know and…
September 11, 2013
Featured Fellow: Cynthia Tucker

Featured Fellow: Cynthia Tucker

Cynthia TuckerNieman Class of 1989Tucker spent decades as an Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., and served as the editorial page editor. In 2011, she left the newspaper, to…
August 28, 2013

Annotation Tuesday! Sebastian Junger and the perfect storm

The magazine story behind Sebastian Junger‘s celebrated nonfiction book A Perfect Storm ran in Outside magazine in October 1994. “The Storm” (4,765 words) told the story of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat out of Gloucester,…
August 20, 2013

"Why’s this so good?" No. 82: Rebecca Solnit and "Detroit Arcadia"

If you’ve been following the recent reports out of Detroit, you know conditions there are dire. This is hardly new. For decades the dominant narrative about the city has been…
August 13, 2013
Collected wisdom: Orlean, Atkinson, Powers, Corchado, Britt, Merida, Bennett and more

Collected wisdom: Orlean, Atkinson, Powers, Corchado, Britt, Merida, Bennett and more

If you missed a post or two in our weeklong recap of this year's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, here's the roundup: On Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times' Kelley Benham and…
August 2, 2013
Skip Hollandsworth: National Magazine Award winner, screenwriter, tipmaster

Skip Hollandsworth: National Magazine Award winner, screenwriter, tipmaster

Mayborn Week continues: Skip Hollandsworth, a veteran writer for Texas Monthly, specializes in the kind of true-crime narrative yarns that are always bigger in Texas. In 2010, Hollandsworth won a National Magazine…
July 31, 2013
Kelley Benham and Tom French on "Never Let Go," book collaboration, first-person writing, memory and love

Kelley Benham and Tom French on "Never Let Go," book collaboration, first-person writing, memory and love

Tampa Bay Times reporter Kelley Benham went into labor four months early and delivered her daughter, Juniper, at 23 weeks: a baby who weighed 20 ounces and was no taller…
July 30, 2013
Inside 40 Towns: literary journalism, Dartmouth students and a professor who wanted more

Inside 40 Towns: literary journalism, Dartmouth students and a professor who wanted more

If you’ve been following 40 Towns, the new literary journalism magazine produced by Jeff Sharlet’s creative nonfiction students at Dartmouth, you’ve seen longform stories about ex-cons, a roadside motel, a…
July 23, 2013