Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 998 results Bowie and Thoreau — now there’s a pair to draw to Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,… June 17, 2016 Please: No dancing on the grave of beautiful storytelling (It’s not dead and never will be) “The best way to tell stories in this world, where so much information is coming at us, actually is video. It conveys so much more information in a much quicker… June 15, 2016 5 Questions with: Ben Montgomery on Michael Brick and “Everyone Leaves Behind a Name” Perhaps as much as any modern journalist, Michael Brick brought the style of Ben Hecht’s “A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago” into the 21st century newsroom. Hecht made the… May 10, 2016 From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on “Missing” Tiffany Whitton was last seen on video surveillance footage from a Marietta, Georgia, Walmart one night in September 2013. The video shows the twenty-six-year-old woman intoxicated and shoplifting; with her… May 6, 2016 The Power of Oral History as Journalism First-person reports about Bill Cosby and Chernobyl bring new attention to an old form of storytelling May 5, 2016 Annotation Tuesday! Jesse Katz goes “Inside the San Quentin Marathon” For many of his 30-plus years in the journalism business, Jesse Katz has been covering crime. Back in the early 1990s, his former employer The Los Angeles Times assigned him… April 26, 2016 Annotation Tuesday! Jill Lepore and “The Prodigal Daughter” The historian and New Yorker writer on breaking her rule against writing personal essays and why journalists must use history with caution April 12, 2016 Esquire Classic: Colum McCann, Bitcoin and the Winklevoss twins The last time most of us heard of the Winklevoss twins—hell, the first time we heard of them—was in David Fincher’s acerbic 2010 movie, The Social Network. You remember: Tyler… March 30, 2016 Journalism and Art: Complementary and Collaborative Storytelling As journalists use art to bring stories off the page, artists adopt reporting techniques to address social issues March 28, 2016 Esquire Classic: Elizabeth Kaye and great profile writing Esquire has long been fascinated by men in power—and by the frailties and anxieties that lie just beneath their polished facades. Beginning in the late eighties, contributing editor Elizabeth Kaye… March 23, 2016 Previous 1 … 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 … 100 Next
