Search results for “so you want to write a book” Showing 1001 results The end of the line for the Lone Ranger? A how-to guide for narrative collaboration When The Roanoke Times “Age of Uncertainty” won Documentary Project of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, it wasn’t the narrative writing or the photography or the Web… November 24, 2009 The Moth’s Lea Thau on storytelling In some places, the spoken story is thriving. Last night in Boston, that 800-pound gorilla of live storytelling, the Moth, put on an event at the Tsai Performance Center. We decided… October 30, 2009 Tom Shroder, former Washington Post Magazine editor, on dinner plates and well-done narrative This week, I had a chance to talk by phone with Tom Shroder, who took a buyout from The Washington Post earlier this year. Shroder specializes in long-form narrative stories… October 28, 2009 How Twitter’s @longreads helps readers cozy up to digital narratives [First in an occasional series aimed at helping readers find other online resources that focus on narrative journalism.] Plenty of people are worried about the future of long-form journalism. Not… October 16, 2009 The Oregonian’s Shawn Levy on how to find the story At last weekend’s American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors conference, keynote speaker Shawn Levy spoke about "getting the story" and the connections between writing books and journalism. The film… September 28, 2009 Interview with Chris Jones: Building a mystery Excerpts from a September 2009 interview with Chris Jones on "The End of Mystery," in which a team of investigators recovers bodies and determines the cause of a helicopter crash off the coast of… September 12, 2009 Michael J. Mooney interview: Unseen lives Excerpts from an August 2009 interview with Michael J. Mooney, reporter for Florida’s New Times, whose stories won a slot in the Best American Crime Reporting and Best American Sports… August 31, 2009 Steve Luxenberg interview on Annie's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret Excerpts from a July 2009 interview with Steve Luxenberg on his memoir, which traces the discovery that his mother had an institutionalized sister whose existence she kept secret from her children for… July 31, 2009 Natural Narratives [Editor’s Note: These comments are adapted from a talk given by Michael Pollan at the 2006 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism.] Book by book, project by project, it’s usually hard… February 16, 2007 The Four Noble Truths of Religion Writing “Life means suffering.” According to the Buddha, that is the first of four “noble truths” that together define human existence. I’m not much of a Buddhist (I’m a lapsed Catholic… December 15, 2006 Previous 1 … 96 97 98 99 100 101 Next