new yorker The New Yorker at 100: What we can learn about editor-writer relationships Plus: National Magazine Award finalists, American Mosaic Journalism Prize, and more. February 14, 2025 Mark Armstrong David Grann Part 2: Craft wisdom and breaking into narrative nonfiction The renowned author shares insights on vetting story ideas, meticulous research and revision, the value of editors and pitching The New Yorker January 11, 2024 Katia Savchuk How Rachel Aviv of The New Yorker exposed the “troubled teen industry” Aviv scoured court records, social media and personal journals to reveal the abuses of a system of unregulated Christian boarding schools January 6, 2022 Chip Scanlan The New Yorker explores a dilemma in Ultra-Orthodox divorce: What about the children? Writer Larissa MacFarquhar is drawn to stories that help her sort out issues that have no clear solutions September 21, 2021 Carly Stern The New Yorker’s “Lost Giant of American Literature” and the prism of race In both the first novel by William Melvin Kelley and recent article by Kathryn Schulz, the story of blacks is told by whites April 5, 2018 Ebonye Gussine Wilkins Writing through a whiteout: David Grann and “The White Darkness” In his New Yorker piece on an explorer following Shackleton's footsteps in Antarctica, the reporter struggled through his own writing blizzard March 13, 2018 Steve Oney “Draft No. 4”: the legendary John McPhee’s “master class in the writer’s craft” Who *wouldn't* want to learn the secrets of one of the best literary journalists of the last 50 years? Do we see any hands at all? Didn't think so. December 21, 2017 David L. Ulin Susan Orlean: “My method of reporting is just to be there” Susan Orlean is storied for her stories. Since 1992 she’s been a staff writer at The New Yorker, and her 1998 book “The Orchid Thief” was made into the movie… April 22, 2016 Kim Tingley Ariel Levy’s personal and impossibly painful New Yorker essay “Thanksgiving in Mongolia” Levy’s narrative voice is by turn darkly comic, confessional and challenging. May 6, 2014 Alysia Abbott “Why’s this so good?” No. 88: Katherine Boo and the marriage cure Katharine Boo begins her 2003 New Yorker piece “The Marriage Cure” with one of my all-time favorite opening lines:One July morning last year in Oklahoma City, in a public-housing project… January 14, 2014 Dina Kraft 1 2 Next
