Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 1006 results The power of historical nonfiction: “Let me tell you what happened right on this spot a long time ago” A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure December 1, 2017 Matthew Pearl and “Into the Shadows” (Filed under: You can’t make this stuff up) The historical novelist talks about his Boston Globe Magazine yarn and how he answered the question, "Who were America's first detectives?" November 28, 2017 How to get the attention of a senior editor at Smithsonian Magazine Jennie Rothenberg Gritz says of story pitches she accepts: "There has to be something surprising and narratively interesting there." November 14, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Holly Gleason and “Woman Walk the Line: How the Women of Country Music Changed Our Lives” The editor of the new anthology talks about the joys of being subversive and using country music to talk about female empowerment November 9, 2017 Jason Fagone on Landing “The Willy Wonka of Pot” in Grantland As we launch a series about the mystical art of pitching longform stories, the longtime freelancer does the coolest thing: He annotates one of his own October 10, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Abbie Gascho Landis and the surprising climate book “Immersion” The writer (and vet) talks about squeezing story from science, and how a book about mussels is also about our tender, tenacious humanity. September 14, 2017 Monica Hesse and “American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land” The Washington Post reporter talks about what it's like to juggle multiple projects (and genres), and the virtue of capturing the way people talk August 31, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Maud Newton and her science-meets-personal-essay “I, Rodent” The writer talks about her touching piece in The Awl, in which she intersperses disturbing facts about genetic engineering with her lifelong identification with mice August 10, 2017 On identity: men who created it, women who lost it, a writer who escaped it A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure July 21, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Steve Oney and “A Man’s World” (both the song and his new book) The writer talks about how ideas about masculinity have changed over his 40-year career, and how he eerily predicted the rise of Breitbart America July 18, 2017 Previous 1 … 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 … 101 Next
