Search results for “writing+the+book” Showing 1163 results Featured Fellow: Amy Ellis Nutt Amy Ellis NuttNieman Class of 2005A longtime enterprise writer at the Newark Star-Ledger, Nutt won the 2011 Pulitzer in feature writing for her narrative series “The Wreck of the Lady… August 29, 2013 Featured Fellow: Mary Schmich Mary SchmichNieman Class of 1996When the Pulitzer committee awarded Schmich the 2012 prize for commentary, jurors cited the strength of her “wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the character… August 27, 2013 Featured Fellow: Gene Weingarten Gene WeingartenNieman Class of 1988Weingarten, of the Washington Post, writes long and short and sad and funny hilarious, and “may be the best writer in American journalism,” as one profiler once… August 26, 2013 One anniversary, two new features It’s a big day at Lippmann House — the new class of Nieman Fellows arrived this morning, to begin their year at Harvard. And a special year it is. The Nieman Foundation… August 21, 2013 Annotation Tuesday! Sebastian Junger and the perfect storm The magazine story behind Sebastian Junger‘s celebrated nonfiction book A Perfect Storm ran in Outside magazine in October 1994. “The Storm” (4,765 words) told the story of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat out of Gloucester,… August 20, 2013 "Detroit: A love story:" Chuck Salter, Fast Company, and a layered, live-storytelling approach to the tale of a desperate city Fast Company's Chuck Salter recently came up with an innovative way to address the unfolding narrative that is Detroit. The city, long depressed, is now bankrupt. Unemployment stands at double the national rate;… August 16, 2013 "Why’s this so good?" No. 82: Rebecca Solnit and "Detroit Arcadia" If you’ve been following the recent reports out of Detroit, you know conditions there are dire. This is hardly new. For decades the dominant narrative about the city has been… August 13, 2013 "Why’s this so good?" No. 81: Lawrence Wright and the "bootleg preacher" I’m old enough to have practiced as a state prosecutor for a while, but I still laugh at fart jokes. Regardless of the flatulent punch line, Larry the Cable Guy’s… August 6, 2013 Collected wisdom: Orlean, Atkinson, Powers, Corchado, Britt, Merida, Bennett and more If you missed a post or two in our weeklong recap of this year's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, here's the roundup: On Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times' Kelley Benham and… August 2, 2013 Skip Hollandsworth on storytelling, listening, Hollywood, respect and the importance of getting out into the world No bullet-point tips list could compare with Skip Hollandworth’s Sunday sermonizing, which closed the 2013 Mayborn Conference. What follows is the Mayborn's video of Hollandsworth (followed by our selected excerpts)… August 1, 2013 Previous 1 … 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 … 117 Next
