Search results for “writing+the+book” Showing 1150 results For Halloween week, supernatural podcasts and the haunting of Joan Didion A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure November 3, 2017 The Joan Didion documentary: a nephew’s loving portrait of “a cool customer” The Netflix film is touching but not sentimental, revealing her ability to be a seemingly dispassionate observer -- as a reporter and also a grieving widow November 2, 2017 This American Afterlife: Aaron Mahnke and the spooky podcast (and TV show) “Lore” The creator of the hugely popular true-life scary stories talks about his love for the supernatural and getting listeners to follow him down dark tunnels October 31, 2017 Nikole Hannah-Jones on reporting about racial inequality: “What drives me is rage” At the Power of Storytelling conference, the writer talks about Charlottesville and entrenched racism that reaches back 400 years in America October 26, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Ted Genoways and his year-long embed on a family farm In the book "This Blessed Earth," the writer and his wife, photographer Mary Anne Andrei, give voice to the Americans who provide the food we eat October 19, 2017 “The private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive …” —John Hersey, "Hiroshima" October 11, 2017 Ellen Barry and “How to Get Away with Murder in Small-Town India” The New York Times foreign correspondent talks about her sensational last story from India, in which she uses first person to unparalleled effect October 3, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Texas journalist Krys Boyd and the art of the radio interview The longtime host of "Think" talks about preparing for her daily show, and how radio is a form of oral storytelling -- "I think it’s stronger than ever" September 26, 2017 Notable Narrative: The Cincinnati Enquirer’s stunning “Seven Days of Heroin” A writer and editor talk about wrangling 60 staffers and a deluge of copy -- and creating a riveting portrait of the human face of the opioid epidemic September 25, 2017 “If the history of the earth’s tides should one day be written by some observer of the universe, it would no doubt be said that they reached their greatest grandeur and power in the younger days of Earth, and that they slowly grew feebler and less imposing until one day they ceased to be.” —Rachel Carson, "The Sea Around Us" September 13, 2017 Previous 1 … 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 … 115 Next
