Search results for “roy peter clark” Showing 97 results 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 Top 10 Top 10 Lists — storytelling edition Because why not a list of lists? Ten* worth the storyteller's time:1) “130 years of must-read stories for digital journalists: five lessons from 1851-1981,” by Abraham Hyatt, editor of the… December 20, 2013 Best of Storyboard 2013 — reader favorites We’ve configured this year’s Best of Storyboard roundup by category* this year, as opposed to ranking them by readership, though we’ll say that in terms of pageviews the Gay Talese/Elon… December 19, 2013 Full life, tight space? Consider narrative shorthand. An interesting writing move recently caught my eye in Rosalind Bentley's Atlanta Journal-Constitution profile of poet laureate Natasha Trethewey. For lack of a better name, I’ll call it the "narrative… October 17, 2013 Previous 1 … 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next
