Search results for “writing+the+book” Showing 1153 results What happens when a superstar novelist is asked to profile a superstar actress? Ann Patchett writes about Reese Witherspoon: No celebrity dirt, a storytelling structure, lots of dialog about books and houses and feminism July 28, 2020 How to become a “five-tool” storyteller Major League Baseball, that beloved summer sport, returns to a shortened season later this month. Or at least it is scheduled to, but as with all things in the time… July 14, 2020 Four questions mine for bottomless wisdom During the 15 years that Chip Scanlan taught writing workshops at the Poynter Institute, he wrote a popular column called “Chip on Your Shoulder.” Searching Poynter’s archives takes some work,… July 10, 2020 Navigating ethics, culture and safety to immerse in immigration and Covid At first glance, there are few frills or fireworks in “Tatiana’s Luck,” Hannah Dreier ‘s profile of an immigrant living in a crowded New Jersey house stalked by COVID-19. In the… July 8, 2020 “His conversation is so delightfully sauced …” —Robin Wall Kimmerer from an essay in "Braiding Sweetgrass" July 1, 2020 “Words are living things. They have personality, point of view, agenda.” —Mads Mikkelsen as TV character Hannibal Lecter June 16, 2020 How F. Scott Fitzgerald guided the hand and aspirations of a newspaper journalist Early in my career, while working in Minnesota as a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, I fell in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald, the city’s most famous native… June 4, 2020 Reading (Stephen King) to learn to write Now for something fun and funky, or at least distracting, but these days I’m sure we could all use fun and funky, or at least distracting. A starter’s guide to… June 3, 2020 A day-in-the-life profile of a grocery store during the coronavirus shutdown With a cell phone, an eye for evocative detail and 50 pages of notes, Brittny Mejia of the Los Angeles Times turned a day at a grocery store into a… June 2, 2020 “… the only true medicine I could provide.” —Dr. Jesse Charles, from his time volunteering at Brooklyn Hospital Center during coronavirus May 29, 2020 Previous 1 … 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 … 116 Next
