After some months spent planning to write about Gene Weingarten’s story “The Peekaboo Paradox” for this site, I caught up with the two-time Pulitzer winner in Texas this summer at the Mayborn Conference. And when I say caught, I mean caught. I had never met Weingarten before, but I saw the highly recognizable, highly mustachioed [...]
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Gene Weingarten on “the god of journalism,” compulsive editing and “The Peekaboo Paradox”
September 28, 2011 – 7:33 pm
David Finkel on The Good Soldiers: “I’m not obligated to these men, but I do want to tell a story that they recognize”
May 3, 2010 – 4:35 pm
Tomorrow, Washington Post national enterprise editor David Finkel will receive the 2010 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for The Good Soldiers, a bruising account of a U.S. Army battalion’s service in Iraq during 2007 and 2008. The $10,000 prize, announced by the Nieman Foundation and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, is given for excellence [...]
