Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 998 results Viewing the COVID divide through tensions in one rural community AP reporter Tim Sullivan found a small town on the Minnesota prairie to explore the political chasms exposed by COVID February 8, 2022 Reporting trauma: Jessica Ravitz on farmer suicides Ravitz made time and space for a daughter and son to talk about their father's death in hopes of helping others February 3, 2022 When writing sparks writing Earlier this month, we posted a short “One Great Moment” piece on a dazzling line of dialog from the new-this-season Netflix movie “A Boy Called Christmas.” Dame Maggie Smith is… January 28, 2022 An obit gets honest and goes viral “A plus-sized Jewish redneck lady died in El Paso on Saturday.” That’s the first line of the unforgettable obit of Renay Mandel Corren, who died in December at age 84.… January 25, 2022 How Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker exposed the “troubled teen industry” Aviv scoured court records, social media and personal journals to reveal the abuses of a system of unregulated Christian boarding schools January 6, 2022 How an “immersionist” held up the story of one homeless child as “a mirror to America” Pulitzer-winner Andrea Elliott of The New York Times followed a homeless child named Dasani for eight years, from newspaper project to book December 10, 2021 A profile of one family divided by vaccine politics reflects the divide of a nation Peter Jamison of The Washington Post immerses into the emotional chasm of a family struggling with divergent views and a sudden death November 23, 2021 “It smelled like margarine and white bread, marriage and cramped flats.” Writing, at its best, is a visual art. It makes readers see. It paints scenes and action and characters in their minds. Brain science studies indicate that people actually hear… November 12, 2021 Immersing into the lives of children damaged by gun violence, and laws that don’t stop it For the past five years, John Woodrow Cox has worked to master the art of helping children talk about a fraught but rarely covered subject — the long-term physical and… November 5, 2021 “That’s what writing is, after all the nonsense…” Some book purists may cringe at this, but one test of a great book, to me, is how many pages are dogeared by the time I finish. Those are the… November 4, 2021 Previous 1 … 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 … 100 Next
