Search results for “writing+the+book” Showing 1153 results How to get the attention of a senior editor at Smithsonian Magazine Jennie Rothenberg Gritz says of story pitches she accepts: "There has to be something surprising and narratively interesting there." November 14, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Holly Gleason and “Woman Walk the Line: How the Women of Country Music Changed Our Lives” The editor of the new anthology talks about the joys of being subversive and using country music to talk about female empowerment November 9, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Patsy Sims and “The Stories We Tell: Classic True Tales by America’s Greatest Women Journalists” The anthology, which includes Joan Didion and Lillian Ross, puts a deserved spotlight on female writers (and perhaps will give Gay Talese a few ideas when he's next asked about… November 7, 2017 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 Previous 1 … 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 … 116 Next
