Search results for “writing the book” Showing 1161 results Tom Shroder, former Washington Post Magazine editor, on dinner plates and well-done narrative This week, I had a chance to talk by phone with Tom Shroder, who took a buyout from The Washington Post earlier this year. Shroder specializes in long-form narrative stories… October 28, 2009 Tommy Tomlinson: making words work for a living 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… October 27, 2009 How Twitter’s @longreads helps readers cozy up to digital narratives [The first in an occasional series aimed at helping readers find other online resources that focus on narrative journalism.] Plenty of people are worried about the future of long-form journalism.… October 16, 2009 Narrative reporting and the danger of the single story Current Nieman fellow Hopewell Rugoho-Chin’ono recently pointed out this striking TED talk from July, in which Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie speaks on the danger of letting one narrative define… October 14, 2009 Interview with Mary Gaitskill: lessons from "Lost Cat" Today we offer the second installment of a two-part look at narrative nonfiction from Granta’s summer issue. I spoke with author Mary Gaitskill about “Lost Cat,” her memoir on the… October 6, 2009 The Oregonian’s Shawn Levy on how to find the story At last weekend’s American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors conference, keynote speaker Shawn Levy spoke about "getting the story" and the connections between writing books and journalism. The film… September 28, 2009 Interview with Chris Jones: Building a mystery Excerpts from a September 2009 interview with Chris Jones on "The End of Mystery," in which a team of investigators recovers bodies and determines the cause of a helicopter crash off the coast of… September 12, 2009 Michael J. Mooney interview: Unseen lives Excerpts from an August 2009 interview with Michael J. Mooney, reporter for Florida’s New Times, whose stories won a slot in the Best American Crime Reporting and Best American Sports… August 31, 2009 The Girl in the Window “The Girl in the Window” is the story of Dani, a child so removed from normal human community she has been labeled “feral.” In this St. Petersburg Times piece, Lane… November 7, 2008 Natural Narratives [Editor’s Note: These comments are adapted from a talk given by Michael Pollan at the 2006 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism.] Book by book, project by project, it’s usually hard… February 16, 2007 Previous 1 … 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 Next
