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From Esquire Classic: Gay Talese on Profiling Boxer Floyd Patterson

From Esquire Classic: Gay Talese on Profiling Boxer Floyd Patterson

To help celebrate Floyd Patterson’s birthday, let’s turn for a moment to Esquire Hall of Famer Gay Talese, who called Patterson a “writer’s dream.”Esquire Classic: You wrote more than thirty stories…
January 20, 2016

Jake Silverstein: “Immersing you in worlds not your own”

New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein on telling stories with virtual reality
January 19, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on "The Good Life"

Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on “The Good Life”

Anthony Ronzio (Credit: Gabor Degre | BDN)Over the past two years the Bangor Daily News, a small-town newspaper in central Maine, has made a name for itself by publishing ambitious…
January 12, 2016

Narrative Conferences and Workshops: Where to Hone Your Skills in 2016

Happy Narrative New Year! If you resolved to get better at narrative in 2016, or even just to figure out what it is, here’s a list of conferences and workshops…
January 6, 2016
In Search of the ‘Southern Voice’

In Search of the ‘Southern Voice’

When I was a child, my father would sometimes mention The Great Southern Novel he’d always wanted to write.I remember the protagonist as a poor, small-town man who’d somehow made…
December 16, 2015
Roger Lowenstein: “I don’t like the word simplify; I prefer the word explain”

Roger Lowenstein: “I don’t like the word simplify; I prefer the word explain”

Roger LowensteinRoger Lowenstein is the author of six nonfiction books, including his latest, American’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, he…
December 11, 2015

Erik Vance: “Scientists are quirky everywhere”

The National Association of Science Writers gave Erik Vance a 2015 Science in Society award for science reporting for his story “Why Nothing Works,” published in Discover magazine, saying his…
December 8, 2015

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 99: Renata Adler and ‘Reckless Disregard’

Complex litigation of the kind typically handled by large corporate law firms contains no shortage of absurdities; indeed, absurdity can sometimes seem to be its basic condition, despite the sobering…
December 3, 2015

Amy Ellis Nutt: “Our Stories Choose Us”

Amy Ellis Nutt Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt is the author of three non-fiction books, including the recently released “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.” The book…
November 12, 2015

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 97: Harry Crews and ‘Going Down in Valdez’

The scene could fit nicely into a Harry Crews novel: A legless man with a “beatific look of ecstasy on his thin, pale face” sits on a dolly outside the…
November 6, 2015