Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 1003 results "Why’s this so good?" No. 64: David Grann and Sherlock Holmes There is a good reason tales of true crime make for great magazine writing. Or good procedural TV shows and movies. It's because the best stories of unsolved murders, missing… October 23, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 62: Ian Parker profiles Alec Baldwin As far as I can tell, the New Yorker staff writer Ian Parker has no Twitter feed, no website, no LinkedIn page and no TED profile. Even for that magazine, he's pretty… October 9, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 61: John McPhee and the archdruid The New Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s – by Tom Wolfe, Hunter Thompson, and others – made the biggest collective splash in recent American nonfiction, and certainly enlarged our… October 2, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 60: Jeanne Marie Laskas and the empire of ice For the past few years, GQ correspondent Jeanne Marie Laskas has explored the myriad behind-the-scenes lives that help make our first-world reality what it is today. To borrow a couple… September 25, 2012 “What’s on your syllabus?” Narrative professors on what stories and books they assign Every narrative journalist can point to a story or a book, or two, that changed their lives, and that made them want to tell true stories. What story does it for… September 20, 2012 Writing 9/11: Erin Sullivan on survivors, intros, collaboration, inspiration and the importance of working with what you have We chose Erin Sullivan’s story about a 9/11 survivor as our latest Notable Narrative for the usual reasons − interesting characters; strong, memorable writing − but also because it contained the watermark of a takeaway… September 14, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 58: Scott Anderson and the hunger warriors A tattered, stapled-together copy of Scott Anderson’s “The Hunger Warriors” now qualifies as one of my oldest and most treasured possessions. I distinctly remember snipping it out of the New… September 11, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 57: Joan Didion on dreamers gone astray In 1977, Joan Didion told The Paris Review that she always kept in mind one line of poetry, from T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: “at the still point of the turning world.” I don’t… September 4, 2012 The best of Storyboard: What’s that sound? The best stories – even the written ones – have audio. Maybe it’s a sensibility: voice or style, which Ben Yagoda explores in his craft book The Sound on the… August 30, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 56: Nora Ephron and the thing about breasts Nora Ephron was a writer of many gifts. She was fearless. She was blunt. She was dazzlingly perceptive. She was writing at the right time. Her connections were fascinating. She could… August 28, 2012 Previous 1 … 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 … 101 Next
