Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 1006 results Raw first stories from the Appalachian Trail When I first discovered that Earl Shaffer — the first man acknowledged to have hiked the entire 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine — lived nearby, I went through… February 28, 2019 Building a museum with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up One day last October, Cara Solomon sat alone in an empty field in Alabama, the unmarked site of a lynching. She wasn’t carrying a reporter’s notebook or thinking yet about… February 26, 2019 What the “Insect Apocalypse” reveals about faulty human memory Brooke Jarvis takes windshield wipers to environmental blindness February 19, 2019 Forget the chocolates. Tell a story instead I‘m not much on Valentine’s Day. I liked the grade school tradition of exchanging Valentine’s Day cards with classmates. (Is that just a U.S. thing?) Each of us was supposed… February 14, 2019 For the love of analog in a digital world Every August when I was young, my mother would take me to the store to buy some back-to-school notebooks. Maybe some pencils. Sometimes even a plastic pencil sharpener.This was a… February 6, 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 A nut graf by any other name might taste sweeter ~ and be more digestible A defense of the summary nut as it is used in variations by Ken Burns, the Beatles and Shakespeare January 31, 2019 From a Kickstarter about avocados to conviction as an American spy How Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian turned 544 days in an Iranian prison into a story about love, journalism and a broken homeland January 22, 2019 Shining light on a “shadow” special-ed program in the Georgia public schools Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker uses the narrative of one child in one school to reveal the widespread costs of "separate and unequal" January 22, 2019 “There’s a story he’s waiting for, long before he comes across it.” —From "The Overstory," by novelist Richard Powers January 16, 2019 Previous 1 … 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 … 101 Next