Search results for “nieman” Showing 1728 results Five great weekend reads: 2014 CRMA winners The City & Regional Magazine Association announced its latest winners this week. The annual prizes are administered by the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. Five great stories for… May 23, 2014 “Why’s this so good?” No. 92: David Foster Wallace and the view from the Midwest David Foster Wallace grew up in the Midwest but it was not really his home. Yet in September 2001, he was teaching at Illinois State University and living in Bloomington.… May 20, 2014 What we’re watching: Scholars talking literary journalism This year’s International Association for Literary Journalism Studies* started today in Paris, and you can follow along via #IALJS9 or watch the events live. The full conference program is here. Ten recommended panels or presentations:“Hearing Their Voices:… May 15, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic Tom Wolfe and I met twice, in his Upper East Side home, and to answer the inevitable question, no: He never wore a white suit. Dark blazer, dark pants, no hat.… May 13, 2014 #crowdsourced: great examples of the write-around Last week, a student asked for notable examples of the write-around, that subgenre in which the journalist had limited to no access with the story subject. The most famous examples… May 9, 2014 National Magazine Award winners + bonus reads Five stories that you must stop and read, right now: last night’s winners in the National Magazine Awards for feature writing, reporting, essays, multimedia and fiction (you don’t need us… May 6, 2014 Ariel Levy’s personal and impossibly painful New Yorker essay “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” Levy’s narrative voice is by turn darkly comic, confessional and challenging. May 6, 2014 “Why’s this (sentence) so good?” Editor’s note: This is the inaugural installment of our “Why’s this (sentence) so good?” series, in which a writer analyzes a favorite line from a piece of journalistic storytelling. As… April 28, 2014 In praise of the sentence The first chapter of How to Write a Sentence (and How to Read One), by Stanley Fish, begins with this paragraph:In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a… April 25, 2014 Writing the Book: Profiling the Sabine River My story might interest other small-timers with big ambitions. Believe it or not, a four-part series in a local newspaper launched my career as an author. My first book, Running… April 22, 2014 Previous 1 … 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 … 173 Next
