Search results for “roy peter clark” Showing 100 results In good writing, clarity is job one After 40-some years of practicing journalism, I decided there was much I still had to learn about the craft. So I became a teacher. Any of you who have gone… January 30, 2020 The 1619 project: Tracing steps backwards to find a way forward How a USA Today team helped a woman search her ancestral roots in Angola, home to the first Africans sold into slavery in what would become the U.S. November 26, 2019 Some warbly thoughts on “voice” Defining a writer’s “voice” has always stumped me. It came up again recently, when a journalism professor put me on speaker phone with her class of college freshmen, who had… November 22, 2019 If it was good enough for Jane Austen … My mother’s reverence for education, a solid grounding in middle-school grammar, and a long career in old-school journalism has chiseled me into one of those people who honors language, and… September 13, 2019 Romancing the moon in the reality of time When it came time to write about the 50th anniversary of man’s first walk on the moon, Charles P. Pierce jettisoned sentimentality like a booster rocket.The opening of Pierce’s July… August 16, 2019 Foreshadow forward; echo back. How writers harness the power of the callback The art of the callback in comedy, film, literature and journalism: When repetition isn't redundancy, but theme and structure May 2, 2019 A nutcracker suite: How top journalists interpret the dance of the nut graf Perspectives from more than 20 top journalists on what the "nut graf" really means February 1, 2019 Rebecca Solnit’s long and winding road through the tangled tale of politics The opening paragraph of Rebecca Solnit’s new LitHub essay, “Why the President Must Be Impeached,” is a single sentence, 88 words long. It is one of the shortest paragraphs in… September 4, 2018 “I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.” —Ecclesiastes 9:11, King James Version March 1, 2018 The making of binge-worthy serial narratives, from “S-Town” to “Framed” Podcasts and print alike are reinvigorating a form of storytelling that Dickens and Homer used to hook readers: "to be continued..." April 4, 2017 Previous 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
