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From Mayborn: The Craft of Covering Race
In a conference themed around “The Great Divide,” stories that bridge societal, economic and cultural gaps, the first session at this year’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference exclusively on race...
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From Mayborn: How to Develop Landscape as Character
George Getschow, the tribal leader and founder of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, opened Sunday’s sessions by taking attendees to the Fulton Fish Market in New York, the Los Angeles County...
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From Mayborn: The Pulitzer Effect
The final session of the 2015 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference served as a preview of next year’s theme. In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes, the conference will focus...
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The Narrative Appeal of Documentary Theater
The day Molly Ivins died in 2007, Margaret Engel called up her twin sister Allison and told her they had to write a play about the wisecracking Texas political columnist who stuck George W. Bush with...
View ArticleWith standalone site Esquire Classics, the magazine invites readers to step...
Since it debuted in 1933, Esquire has helped launch and promote the careers of dozens of renowned writers, from Raymond Carver and Richard Ford to Cynthia Ozick and Elizabeth Gilbert. Under the...
View ArticleE.L. Doctorow: “There is only narrative”
E.L. Doctorow’s short-lived reporting career started (and ended) with a journalism course in high school, when one of his assignments was about to run in the school paper. A lively, detailed interview...
View ArticleAnnotation Tuesday! (Back-to-School Edition) Josh Roiland and His ‘Literary...
Below is an annotated version of my syllabus for the class “Literary Journalism in America.” I’ve taught this class eight times: five as part of the SAGES program at Case Western University, where I...
View Article“Why’s This So Good?” No. 95: Patrick Radden Keefe and ‘Where The Bodies Are...
Jean McConville had just taken a bath when the intruders knocked on the door. The rasp of knuckles at a West Belfast flat would jar many people at night in 1972. That sound for so many – fathers, young...
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Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography
I’m standing halfway up Hrushevskoho Street on a frosty February morning in Kiev. It’s -13 degrees Celsius, and I’m chain-smoking with my friend and fixer Emine. It makes us feel warmer while we wait...
View ArticleHow to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram
When there seemed no hope left she turned homeward, searching for healing in old rites and prayers, in balms of the dark, rich mud that her people believe can swallow sickness away. She defied the...
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Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and “The Things That Carried Him”
Chris Jones This story was published in May 2008, five years into Chris Jones’s career at Esquire. Jones was 35 at the time, and he says it was probably the best time to take on a story as tough as...
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Geraldine Brooks: “You might aspire to art but it better start as craft”
Geraldine Brooks Australian-born Geraldine Brooks was a prize-winning journalist before becoming a critically acclaimed novelist. Brooks, a Columbia Journalism School graduate and a former Wall Street...
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Nieman hosts “Made in Boston: Stories of Invention and Innovation”
In a lively evening of storytelling at historic Faneuil Hall on Oct. 6, the Nieman Foundation hosted “Made in Boston: Stories of Invention and Innovation,” one of the inaugural HUBweek events in Boston...
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Leslie Jamison: The Possibilities of the Personal
Leslie Jamison at the The Power of Storytelling international conference in Bucharest. The Power of Storytelling international conference in Bucharest just concluded its fifth edition this month, and...
View ArticleMichael Paterniti: Projecting Stories
The Power of Storytelling international conference in Bucharest just concluded its fifth edition this month, and thanks to conference founder Cristian Lupsa, editor of the nonfiction journal Decât o...
View ArticleCarmen Bugan: Secret Police Records and The Language of Memory
The Power of Storytelling international conference in Bucharest just concluded its fifth edition this month, and thanks to conference founder Cristian Lupsa, editor of the nonfiction journal Decât o...
View ArticleJacqui Banaszynski: The Importance of Place
The Power of Storytelling international conference in Bucharest just concluded its fifth edition this month, and thanks to conference founder Cristian Lupsa, editor of the nonfiction journal Decât o...
View ArticleChris Jones: Nine Rules for Creative Work
The Power of Storytelling international conference in Bucharest just concluded its fifth edition in October, and thanks to conference founder Cristian Lupsa, editor of the nonfiction journal Decât o...
View Article“Why’s This So Good?” No. 96: 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 airport in Valdez, Alaska. Crews initially...
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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...
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