Search results for “nieman” Showing 1735 results 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 The Music of Narrative: Songs from great literary journalism A story without sound lies too dead on the page. Imagine “Mrs. Kelly’s Monster,” by Jon Franklin, without the pop … pop … pop of the operating-room sensors. Or Tom… April 17, 2014 Notable Narrative: David Abel and the Richard family, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Our latest Notable Narrative, "For Richard family, loss and love," is a two-part series by David Abel* of the Boston Globe. Abel spent six months with the Richards, a family of… April 17, 2014 The 2014 Pulitzers: A gap year for features The Pulitzer judges’ decision* not to award a prize in Features Writing on Monday was disappointing but not unprecedented.** The last (and only other) gap occurred 10 years ago, when… April 15, 2014 Previous 1 … 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 … 174 Next
