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Work the problem: How to look at your own stories more objectively

February 14, 2013 – 6:40 am

Our storytelling advice column continues: A journalist asks a question and we find an accomplished narrative writer or editor to answer it. In our first installment, Dave Tarrant of the Dallas Morning News had a question about how to recognize stories with narrative potential. Jack Hart, author of Storycraft, gave him the answer. Today’s players: Robert [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in work the problem | Also tagged Amy Ellis Nutt, F. Scott Fitzgerald, GPD, Het Financieele Dagblad, Maxwell Perkins, Newark Star-Ledger, Nieman Fellow, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Friele, Susan Bell, Thomas Wolfe | Comments (1)

David Finkel on winning the MacArthur “genius” grant

October 5, 2012 – 8:17 am

David Finkel of The Washington Post won a MacArthur “genius” grant this week for his body of long-form narrative journalism, particularly his coverage of the war in Iraq. In awarding him the coveted $500,000 prize, the MacArthur Foundation singled out his 2009 book The Good Soldiers, which recounts nearly a year in the life of [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in #longreads, narrative news | Also tagged Andrea Bruce, Anne Hull, David Finkel, Eli Saslow, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, Joel Achenbach, Josh duLac, Lucian Perkins, MacArthur Fellowship, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nieman Narrative Writing, Phil Bennett, Pulitzer Prize, Stephanie McCrummen, Steve Coll, The Washington Post, Wil Haygood | Comments (2)

Narrative gold: Eli Sanders and his Pulitzer-winning crime saga

April 19, 2012 – 8:26 am

“The prosecutor wanted to know about window coverings. He asked: Which windows in the house on South Rose Street, the house where you woke up to him standing over you with a knife that night – which windows had curtains that blocked out the rest of the world and which did not?” So begins Eli Sanders’ story “The [...]

By Paige Williams | Posted in narrative news | Also tagged Amy Ellis Nutt, Amy Harmon, Anna Griffin, Barry Siegel, Ben Yagoda, Corinne Reilly, Eli Sanders, Esquire, Gene Weingarten, George Polk Award, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Jim Sheeler, John Branch, Lane DeGregory, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, National Book Award, Nieman Fellow, Pulitzer Prize, Raquel Rutledge, Rocky Mountain News, Rolling Stone, Ronnie Agnew, The American Scholar, The Clarion-Ledger, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Stranger, The Virginian-Pilot, Walt Harrington, Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism | Comments (1)

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