Search results for “writing the book” Showing 1142 results Annotation Tuesday: the Porn Star and Mike Sager I’ve been thinking about Mike Sager’s story, “The Devil and John Holmes,” for a long time. I first read his chronicle of the famous porn star and the Wonderland murders… November 25, 2014 5 Questions for Tyler Hicks Some of the most compelling, controversial images of conflict and terror in recent memory — a woman hiding with her children, motionless on a restaurant floor, a man carrying a boy’s body along… November 12, 2014 Annotation Tuesday: Jonathan Goldstein and The Little Mermaid Annotation Tuesday ventures into a new medium today with our first annotation of a radio story. It’s a natural fit. The human voice is, of course, the original storytelling instrument.… November 4, 2014 “Serial” podcast producers talk storytelling, structure and if they know whodunnit The true-crime outline may sound familiar; the storytelling is not October 30, 2014 5 Questions for David Finkel David Finkel describes his “deliberate” reporting process at the Nieman FoundationIn selecting David Finkel for one of its “genius” grants in 2012, the MacArthur Foundation described him as “a journalist whose… October 22, 2014 Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and “If He Hollers Let Him Go” Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and I met recently in her Brooklyn apartment to talk about “If He Hollers Let Him Go.” Her story, which is and isn’t about comedian Dave Chappelle, ran in… October 7, 2014 5 Questions for Jill Lepore No wonder Jill Lepore describes herself as a “code-switcher.” She’s both a prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Her most… October 6, 2014 Pearls before Breakfast, Reprised Almost anyone who loves narrative journalism or music or social experiments or who simply believes that children are wiser than adults knows the Gene Weingarten story “Pearls Before Breakfast.”In this… September 30, 2014 “The problem of being labelled a confessionalist” If you’ve read Meghan Daum’s terrific essay in the Sept. 29 New Yorker on her decision to remain childless (one of Storyboard’s most recent weekend picks), you’ll want to take a… September 29, 2014 Required Reading, Session Two Welcome to the second session of our discussion with narrative instructors about the stories they’re assigning students this fall. If you missed Monday’s recommendations from Alex Kotlowitz, Doug Foster and… September 9, 2014 Previous 1 … 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 … 115 Next
