Search results for “writing the book” Showing 1142 results Golden nuggets from the rich river of narrative nonfiction Big Ideas from small sessions at the 2019 Power of Narrative Conference March 28, 2019 Grounding apocalyptic issues in reality without losing hope Q&A with Washington Post writer Dan Zak about his daring and emotional query about climate change, and finding some calm in the controversy March 21, 2019 “She stares at me, but it feels like she’s looking at who I used to be, her little girl with ponytails and a snaggletooth who swore she was a Powerpuff Girl.” —From the young adult novel "The Hate U Give," by Angie Thomas March 20, 2019 Wired’s executive editor seeks stories that reveal all faces of technology Rejections aren't personal: “70 percent of why pitches don't work has nothing to do with the writer” March 5, 2019 Raw first stories from the Appalachian Trail When I first discovered that Earl Shaffer — the first man acknowledged to have hiked the entire 2,200-mile Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine — lived nearby, I went through… February 28, 2019 Building a museum with jars of dirt, and building stories from the ground up One day last October, Cara Solomon sat alone in an empty field in Alabama, the unmarked site of a lynching. She wasn’t carrying a reporter’s notebook or thinking yet about… February 26, 2019 “I’m thinking longer term, in geologic time, doing just what I can each day and not putting it off because it won’t be brilliant.” —From Amy Liptrot, in her memoir "The Outrun" February 20, 2019 What the “Insect Apocalypse” reveals about faulty human memory Brooke Jarvis takes windshield wipers to environmental blindness February 19, 2019 Forget the chocolates. Tell a story instead I‘m not much on Valentine’s Day. I liked the grade school tradition of exchanging Valentine’s Day cards with classmates. (Is that just a U.S. thing?) Each of us was supposed… February 14, 2019 “I work like a watchmaker or an old-fashioned silversmith: one eye screwed up… ” —From the memoir "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by Amos Oz February 13, 2019 Previous 1 … 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 … 115 Next