Search results for “writing+the+book” Showing 1126 results The sense of an ending Whether you spell them “ledes” or “leads,” opening lines get a lot of attention. And why wouldn’t they? Sitting at the keyboard, with all the tedious and sometimes annoying reporting… June 23, 2014 “Why’s this (sentence) so good?” Jason Silverstein on Matt Taibbi on Goldman Sachs The sentence: The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.… June 18, 2014 Inside the new storytelling collective Deca The new storytelling collective Deca launched late last week with a Kickstarter campaign and a debut title, “And the City Swallowed Them,” about the murder of a Canadian model in… June 16, 2014 Watch a story ‘come to life:’ The Big Roundtable’s new Open Rehearsal project Editor’s note: The Big Roundtable, a New York-based digital publisher of nonfiction, just launched the Open Rehearsal Project, which allows readers to “watch a story come to life.” The inaugural piece… June 12, 2014 “Why’s this so good?” No. 93: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the case for reparations It’s hard to know where to begin when attempting to grapple with the sprawling legacy of racial discrimination and oppression in America. But Ta-Nehisi Coates knows there to start. “The Case For… June 3, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic Tom Wolfe and I met twice, in his Upper East Side home, and to answer the inevitable question, no: He never wore a white suit. Dark blazer, dark pants, no hat.… May 13, 2014 Keeping it simple: On plain language A few years ago an intern did a study of the writing that showed up in our newspaper. He ran our stories through a computer program that measured the reading… May 8, 2014 National Magazine Award winners + bonus reads Five stories that you must stop and read, right now: last night’s winners in the National Magazine Awards for feature writing, reporting, essays, multimedia and fiction (you don’t need us… May 6, 2014 Ariel Levy’s personal and impossibly painful New Yorker essay “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” Levy’s narrative voice is by turn darkly comic, confessional and challenging. May 6, 2014 In praise of the sentence The first chapter of How to Write a Sentence (and How to Read One), by Stanley Fish, begins with this paragraph:In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a… April 25, 2014 Previous 1 … 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 … 113 Next
