Search results for “writing the book” Showing 1161 results Think it’s a new thing, journalists being called enemies of the people? Read on Two journalist heroes are featured in this week’s posts. One of them, literary sportswriter Frank Deford, died this week, and I’m not sure we’ll see his like again. Read the… June 2, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Phoebe Zerwick and “The Last Days of Darryl Hunt” On her first weekend at The Winston-Salem Journal in 1987, Phoebe Zerwick’s new coworkers took her to a famous crime scene: the place where a man named Darryl Hunt had… May 30, 2017 A darkness runs through it: a journalist gunned down, a small town’s secrets A darkness runs through this week’s post. Most disturbing is the interview with yet another Mexican journalist who was later gunned down for being brave enough to write about the vicious… May 26, 2017 Fake news and true facts, and the licenses taken in pursuit of narrative A decade or so ago, shortly after I became book editor of the Los Angeles Times, I wrote a piece defending the liberties of memoirists. This was in the wake… May 18, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Josh O’Kane and “The Ballad of Fogarty’s Cove” The word “lament” is a sadly beautiful thing, its layers and meanings distinct, yet entwined. In music, it is a song of loss, of missing someone or something that is… May 9, 2017 How Michelle Garcia told the story of Juárez, a city lost to violence, through its dogs The Al Jazeera America piece, reported with Mexican reporter Ignacio Alvarado Alvarez, haunts with its indelible portrait of pets paying the price when a terrorized place goes feral May 2, 2017 5(ish) Questions: David Grann and “Killers of the Flower Moon” Sometimes the idea for a book springs from what you don’t know.David Grann had never heard of the “Osage Murders” until a historian he was talking to mentioned the series… April 18, 2017 Haven’t read those Pulitzer winners yet? Here’s some great storytelling in this year’s batch This week, journalists had their version of the Oscars (minus the red carpet and catty remarks about who-wore-what). The Pulitzer announcements are always an electric moment in a newsroom. Back in… April 14, 2017 Why’s This So Good? Hunter S. Thompson and “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” It’s hard, I know, to make a case for gonzo journalism in an age when reality is beset by exaggeration, even lies. And yet I’ve found myself drawn back to… April 13, 2017 Annotation Tuesday! Kent Russell and “They Burn Witches Here” Some people are made for what they do. Steph Curry was made to play basketball. Dave Chappelle to deliver jokes. You get that feeling with Kent Russell and his writing.… April 11, 2017 Previous 1 … 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 … 117 Next
