Search results for “writing+the+book” Showing 1145 results Raw first stories from the Appalachian Trail When I first discovered that Earl Shaffer — the first man acknowledged to have hiked the entire 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine — lived nearby, I went through… February 28, 2019 Building a museum with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up One day last October, Cara Solomon sat alone in an empty field in Alabama, the unmarked site of a lynching. She wasn’t carrying a reporter’s notebook or thinking yet about… February 26, 2019 “I’m thinking longer term, in geologic time, doing just what I can each day and not putting it off because it won’t be brilliant.” —From Amy Liptrot, in her memoir "The Outrun" February 20, 2019 What the “Insect Apocalypse” reveals about faulty human memory Brooke Jarvis takes windshield wipers to environmental blindness February 19, 2019 Forget the chocolates. Tell a story instead I‘m not much on Valentine’s Day. I liked the grade school tradition of exchanging Valentine’s Day cards with classmates. (Is that just a U.S. thing?) Each of us was supposed… February 14, 2019 “I work like a watchmaker or an old-fashioned silversmith: one eye screwed up… ” —From the memoir "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz February 13, 2019 For the love of analog in a digital world Every August when I was young, my mother would take me to the store to buy some back-to-school notebooks. Maybe some pencils. Sometimes even a plastic pencil sharpener.This was a… February 6, 2019 A prescient voice speaks for the Earth Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” turns 70 this year. At a time when writing about ecological emergency is emotionally and politically fraught, the “Almanac” is a balm of wisdom… February 5, 2019 A nutcracker suite: How top journalists interpret the dance of the nut graf Perspectives from more than 20 top journalists on what the "nut graf" really means February 1, 2019 A nut graf by any other name might taste sweeter ~ and be more digestible A defense of the summary nut as it is used in variations by Ken Burns, the Beatles and Shakespeare January 31, 2019 Previous 1 … 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 … 115 Next
