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Journalists, authors, producers, filmmakers, and Nieman Storyboard readers share more than 40 books that inspire their work.

As anti-DEI and anti-trans language gets battled in court, the grant writer offers advice on how journalists, writers, and artists should proceed.

Plus: Robert Caro digs into his personal archives, and The Guardian's Jessica Reed shares what she's looking for in story pitches.

The renowned author shares insights on vetting story ideas, meticulous research and revision, the value of editors and pitching The New Yorker

The New Yorker writer and bestselling author — who says he's not a “natural writer” — shares the research and writing process behind his latest book

Author Kim Cross annotates the lengthy proposal that landed a contract for the book that revisits the 1993 Polly Klaas kidnapping

The narrative journalist details the upside of rejection, the importance of timing, the value of a good agent and the reality of advances

Author and journalism teacher Mallary Tenore Tarpley uses Post-its and origami paper to outline her reported memoir on eating disorders

In “The Art of Description: World into Word,” Mark Doty writes that Proust endeavored to “dilate the sentence toward its outer limit, so that one would feel the blur of…

As a reporter, Bryan Denson seems to have done it all — working the police beat, writing longform narratives, teaming up on big investigative features, and producing a nonfiction book.…