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Geraldine Brooks: “You might aspire to art but it better start as craft”

Geraldine Brooks Australian-born Geraldine Brooks was a prize-winning journalist before becoming a critically acclaimed novelist. Brooks, a Columbia Journalism School graduate and a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who…
October 9, 2015

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and “The Things That Carried Him”

This story was published in May 2008, five years into Chris Jones’s career at Esquire. Jones was 35 at the time, and he says it was probably the best time…
September 29, 2015
How to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram

How to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram

Long-form narrative writer Neil Shea finds new storytelling possibilities in short posts on Instagram
September 23, 2015
Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

I’m standing halfway up Hrushevskoho Street on a frosty February morning in Kiev. It’s -13 degrees Celsius, and I’m chain-smoking with my friend and fixer Emine. It makes us feel…
September 16, 2015

Annotation Tuesday! (Back-to-School Edition) Josh Roiland and His ‘Literary Journalism in America’ Syllabus

Below is an annotated version of my syllabus for the class “Literary Journalism in America.” I’ve taught this class eight times: five as part of the SAGES program at Case…
August 25, 2015

E.L. Doctorow: “There is only narrative”

The late historical novelist visited the Nieman Foundation in 1977, where he explained why there might be less of a difference between fiction and non-fiction than journalists expect
August 7, 2015
The Narrative Appeal of Documentary Theater

The Narrative Appeal of Documentary Theater

Why journalists are turning to playwriting to express the 'dramatic truth' at the heart of their stories
July 29, 2015

From Mayborn: The Craft of Covering Race

In a conference themed around “The Great Divide,” stories that bridge societal, economic and cultural gaps, the first session at this year’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference exclusively on race admittedly…
July 21, 2015
From Mayborn: How Video Can Improve Narrative

From Mayborn: How Video Can Improve Narrative

Dan Barry said a 90-word wire report from rural Iowa was the spark of what became his 2014 story “The ‘Boys’ in the Bunkhouse.’”Thirty men with intellectual disabilities in a…
July 20, 2015
The Riveter: Longform Journalism by Women, for Women

The Riveter: Longform Journalism by Women, for Women

The Riveter’s second issue was published in summer 2014, and its third issue is set to publish this fall.The two journalism students didn’t let their awe at meeting Esquire writer…
July 20, 2015