Search results for “writing the book” Showing 1161 results Telling true stories: Is it worth it? (Yes.) Editor's note: This is the second installment covering this year's "Power of Storytelling," an annual conference in Bucharest. For the setup, and to watch the first installment, in which Esquire's Chris… October 24, 2013 Full life, tight space? Consider narrative shorthand. An interesting writing move recently caught my eye in Rosalind Bentley's Atlanta Journal-Constitution profile of poet laureate Natasha Trethewey. For lack of a better name, I’ll call it the "narrative… October 17, 2013 Gay Talese explains why he wrote iconic Esquire profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” Why did it strike a chord with people? Talese has no idea October 8, 2013 Featured Fellow: Anne Hull Anne HullClass of 1995A longtime Washington Post reporter, Hull won the Pulitzer for Public Service in 2008, for reporting, with Dana Priest, that exposed substandard conditions at Walter Reed Army… September 26, 2013 Featured Fellow: J. Anthony Lukas J. Anthony LukasNieman Class of 1969Lukas, a two-time Pulitzer winner, is best known for his bestselling 1985 book Common Ground, about school busing and race relations in Boston. In braided… September 26, 2013 Featured Fellow: Julia Keller Julia KellerNieman Class of 1998A former Chicago Tribune reporter and cultural critic, Keller won the 2005 Pulitzer for feature writing, for her “gripping, meticulously reconstructed account of a deadly 10-second… September 24, 2013 Featured Fellow: Rick Bragg Rick BraggNieman Class of 1992Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, Bragg reported for the New York Times, mostly as a generalist. He wrote stories about a wide… September 23, 2013 Featured Fellow: Darcy Frey Darcy FreyNieman Class of 2011Frey wrote the 1994 book The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams, about inner-city basketball players hoping for athletic scholarships to college, and is a contributing… September 23, 2013 Featured Fellow: Susan Orlean Susan OrleanNieman Class of 2004The celebrated author has been a New Yorker staff writer since 1992, and she contributed to the magazine’s Talk of the Town section for five years… September 20, 2013 Featured Fellow: Tommy Tomlinson Tommy TomlinsonNieman Class of 2009Tomlinson spent 23 years as a local columnist at the Charlotte Observer, writing the kind of pieces that readers clipped for their scrapbooks and refrigerators. He… September 19, 2013 Previous 1 … 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 … 117 Next
