Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 998 results Reporting and writing historical narrative: Author Adam Hochschild on accessible prose + scene/setting + character + plot Several years ago, Adam Hochschild, the acclaimed author of King Leopold’s Ghost and other nonfiction narratives, told a Vanderbilt University audience that academic writing doesn’t have to be boring. Scholars of history and science — theoretically… June 29, 2014 The sense of an ending Whether you spell them “ledes” or “leads,” opening lines get a lot of attention. And why wouldn’t they? Sitting at the keyboard, with all the tedious and sometimes annoying reporting… June 23, 2014 Inside the new storytelling collective Deca The new storytelling collective Deca launched late last week with a Kickstarter campaign and a debut title, “And the City Swallowed Them,” about the murder of a Canadian model in… June 16, 2014 Watch a story ‘come to life:’ The Big Roundtable’s new Open Rehearsal project Editor’s note: The Big Roundtable, a New York-based digital publisher of nonfiction, just launched the Open Rehearsal Project, which allows readers to “watch a story come to life.” The inaugural piece… June 12, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic Tom Wolfe and I met twice, in his Upper East Side home, and to answer the inevitable question, no: He never wore a white suit. Dark blazer, dark pants, no hat.… May 13, 2014 Keeping it simple: On plain language A few years ago an intern did a study of the writing that showed up in our newspaper. He ran our stories through a computer program that measured the reading… May 8, 2014 National Magazine Award winners + bonus reads Five stories that you must stop and read, right now: last night’s winners in the National Magazine Awards for feature writing, reporting, essays, multimedia and fiction (you don’t need us… May 6, 2014 In praise of the sentence The first chapter of How to Write a Sentence (and How to Read One), by Stanley Fish, begins with this paragraph:In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a… April 25, 2014 Notable Narrative: David Abel and the Richard family, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Our latest Notable Narrative, "For Richard family, loss and love," is a two-part series by David Abel* of the Boston Globe. Abel spent six months with the Richards, a family of… April 17, 2014 The 2014 Pulitzers: A gap year for features The Pulitzer judges’ decision* not to award a prize in Features Writing on Monday was disappointing but not unprecedented.** The last (and only other) gap occurred 10 years ago, when… April 15, 2014 Previous 1 … 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 … 100 Next
