Search results for “writing+the+book” Showing 1163 results Roy Peter Clark on the search for the “embedded narrative” Not long ago, I came out of a theater in Tampa, Florida, and heard someone calling my name. It was Adan Martinez, a young college student who had just performed… May 21, 2019 Reflections on the challenges and triumphs of masculinity in changing times EDITOR’S NOTE: Authentic profiles are among the most rewarding, challenging and essential of journalistic art forms, requiring an alchemy of relationship, grit and elegance. The most successful often involve a… May 17, 2019 On trial for the Ghost Ship warehouse fire: Was an accused villain miscast as the bad guy? When Elizabeth Weil thought of profiling Max Harris, one of two people facing criminal charges for Oakland’s deadly Ghost Ship fire, she figured another reporter must already be on the… May 14, 2019 How The New York Times tracked public data to produce “Killing Khashoggi” Before humans learned to write, they documented their lives through images with technologies fashioned from materials at hand. To create the renowned galleries of animals — objects of fascination, dreams… May 9, 2019 From a caress of love to a fist of fear In her 20 years traveling the world as a freelance writer, Rachel Louise Snyder has covered a hurricane in Honduras, a tsunami in Indonesia, and the forced sterilization of women… May 7, 2019 Foreshadow forward; echo back. How writers harness the power of the callback In his “New in Town” standup comedy special, John Mulaney tells how, when he was 10, he was in love with his babysitter, who he thought was much older. But as… May 2, 2019 Going public with the private pain of suicide Modern society works hard to find ways to talk about subjects that have long been taboo, and that left sufferers isolated and shrouded in shame. Things like mental illness, abortion,… April 24, 2019 About a bear: The story behind the story of “The Loneliest Polar Bear” “The Loneliest Polar Bear” wasn’t just a heart-tugging news story. It was a suspenseful, multi-thousand word saga about an abandoned newborn polar bear. It was rationed into five chapters that… April 19, 2019 Avoiding false judgments in journalism about Trump’s evangelical supporters Ever since Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in the summer of 2015, I have grown accustomed to the constant drumbeat of stories that pose the same question: How can… April 12, 2019 Probing dark corners and dark souls “The Trials of Whiteboy Rick,” the Atavist Magazine story, by Evan Hughes, of a baby-faced young white man who rose to the top of Detroit’s mostly black cocaine world. “I’ll… April 5, 2019 Previous 1 … 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 … 117 Next
