The news out of Moore, Okla., couldn’t help remind us of the historic tornado in Joplin, Mo., and of one narrative in particular: Luke Dittrich’s National Magazine Award-winning Esquire piece on how a group of strangers survived by crowding into a convenience store cooler. The scenario, which happened two years ago yesterday, was echoed this [...]
To hear the novelist Junot Díaz talk about writing is to have your mind augured open to new ways of processing the human experience and to feel swept up in the poetics of the real. A Dominican Republic native who moved to New Jersey at age 6, Díaz teaches at MIT and writes primarily about the lives of [...]
When Buzz Bissinger visited the Nieman Foundation last week, in some ways he was coming home. Twenty-six years ago, he finished his Nieman year inspired to do new and different work. He’d made his career in newspapers, most recently at the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he, Rick Tulsky and Dan Biddle, also former Niemans, had just written [...]
by Paige Williams
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May 25, 2012
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tags: A Prayer for the City, Ann Marie Lipinski, Buzz Bissinger, Dan Biddle, Ed Rendell, Father's Day, Friday Night Lights, Gerry Bissinger, LeBron James, Madeleine Blais, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation, Pulitzer Prize, Rick Tulsky, The Chicago Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Three Nights in August, Walter Lippmann House, Zach Bissinger
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It’s been a little over a year since The Atavist debuted as a groundbreaking digital platform for long-form multimedia storytelling. Narrative journalists had been bemoaning the shrinking storytelling acreage, so this app-based venue was met with substantial interest. “E-books are more than a publishing platform,” as New York magazine referred to the genre, “they’re a whole new literary form.” [...]
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May 3, 2012
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tags: Adam Tanner, Al Gore, Alissa Quart, Alysia Abbott, Anna Griffin, Brendan Koerner, Byliner, Carlotta Gall, Cris Beam, David Dobbs, David Grann, David Skok, David Wolman, digital National Magazine Award, Dina Kraft, Evan Ratliff, Gay Talese, Harper's, Hiroshima, James Geary, Jefferson Rabb, Jonathan Blakley, Jonathan Franzen, Joshua Hammer, longform.org, longreads, Matthew Power, Michael Lewis, National Magazine Award, Newsweek, Nicholas Thompson, Outside, Paige Williams, Raquel Rutledge, The Atavist, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, Tyler Bridges, Wired
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In Thursday’s post we excerpted nice lines from the five National Magazine Award finalists in feature writing. These included Luke Dittrich’s “Heavenly Father!…,” from Esquire, about survivors of the Joplin, Mo., tornado, which killed 160 people. As it happens, Dittrich had just visited the Nieman Narrative Writing class as part of its speaker series, where [...]
Continuing a Nieman Foundation narrative writing speaker series set up by Paige Williams, journalism legend Gay Talese appeared on campus two weeks ago in conversation with Esquire’s Chris Jones. The Harvard Writers at Work lecture series co-sponsored the standing-room-only event, where Talese and Jones were introduced by current Nieman fellow Adam Tanner of Reuters. What follows is [...]
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Dec 2, 2011
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tags: Adam Tanner, Chris Jones, David Halberstam, David Remnick, Esquire, Gay Talese, Harper's, Harvard Review, Harvard Writers at Work, Nan Talese, Nancy Franklin, National Magazine Awards, Paige Williams, Reuters, Roger Ebert, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, The New Yorker, William Styron
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Esquire writer at large Chris Jones came to the Nieman Foundation two weeks ago as part of the Narrative Writing speakers series I started at the foundation last year, and spent a couple of hours talking about craft. Jones began his career as a sportswriter for the National Post in Toronto, where he covered boxing, which became [...]
Today we bring you Part 2 of a discussion on narrative nonfiction with long-form storyteller Michael Paterniti. (If you just tuned in to the conversation, you might want to check out Part 1.) A six-time finalist for the National Magazine Award, Paterniti won the prize for feature writing for “Driving Mr. Albert,” which became a book [...]
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Nov 30, 2010
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tags: Colin Harrison, Darcy Frey, Esquire, Florence Martin-Kessler, Harper's, J.S. Tissainayagam, Joshua Prager, Mark Kessler, Michael Fitzgerald, Michael Paterniti, Paige Williams, Philippa Thomas, Robert Rose
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Veteran magazine writer Michael Paterniti visited the Nieman Foundation a couple of weeks ago for a discussion about literary journalism with Narrative Writing instructor Paige Williams’ class and other fellows. Winner of the National Magazine Award for feature writing (and a six-time finalist), Paterniti has written powerfully about everything from the crash of SwissAir 111 [...]
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Nov 29, 2010
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tags: Andy Ward, Annie Proulx, Esquire, Hardball, Ian Frazier, Michael Paterniti, New York Times Magazine, New Yorker, Outside, Paige Williams, Sara Corbett, The O'Reilly Factor, The Telling Room, Today, Tom Junod, Walter Benjamin
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