Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 1011 results "Why’s this so good?" No. 67: Dan P. Lee and Travis the killer chimp It was a sideshow story whose horror was so extravagant that it bordered on vulgarity: On Feb. 16, 2009, a 14-year-old male chimpanzee named Travis, who had been raised from… December 4, 2012 Eli Saslow on detail, dignity, nut grafs, patience, reporting v. writing, and what’s in his notebook Our latest Notable Narrative is an Eli Saslow story called “Life of a salesman,” about a swimming-pool salesman struggling in a terrible economy. Yesterday, we listed some of the story’s… November 23, 2012 Politics & storytelling, a sampler: Thompson, McGinniss, Sullivan, Lepore, Bowden, Bellow Why hasn’t anybody Hunter S. Thompsonized this election? Or have they, and we missed it? Esquire’s Charlie Pierce approacheth –In the interest of keeping you abreast of news that hasn't… November 6, 2012 "The Power of Storytelling," Part 3: Starlee Kine on story forms, Mike Sager on suspending disbelief and Alex Tizon on writing your own story In Part 2 of our recap of Romania's "Power of Storytelling" conference on narrative journalism, Pulitzer winner Jacqui Banaszynski wrote a short essay about why she and eight other North American… October 31, 2012 "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 Previous 1 … 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 … 102 Next
