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More copies of this ISBNTelling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard Universityby Mark Kramer
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book. More than fifty well-known writers offer their most powerful tips, including: • Tom Wolfe on the emotional core of the story • Gay Talese on writing about private lives • Malcolm Gladwell on the limits of profiles • Nora Ephron on narrative writing and screenwriters • Alma Guillermoprieto on telling the story and telling the truth • Dozens of Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists from the Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and more . . . The essays contain important counsel for new and career journalists, as well as for freelance writers, radio producers, and memoirists. Packed with refreshingly candid and insightful recommendations, Telling True Stories will show anyone fascinated by the art of writing nonfiction how to bring people, scenes, and ideas to life on the page. Synopsis: Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life.
Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbreaking writing can be. So what makes writers stick with it? In Why We Write, twenty well-known authors candidly share what keeps them going and what they love most—and least—about their vocation.
Contributing authors include: Isabel Allende David Baldacci Jennifer Egan James Frey Sue Grafton Sara Gruen Kathryn Harrison Gish Jen Sebastian Junger Mary Karr Michael Lewis Armistead Maupin Terry McMillan Rick Moody Walter Mosley Susan Orlean Ann Patchett Jodi Picoult Jane Smiley Meg Wolitzer Synopsis:Twenty of America's bestselling authors share tricks, tips, and secrets of the successful writing life. Anyone who's ever sat down to write a novel or even a story knows how exhilarating and heartbreaking writing can be. So what makes writers stick with it? In Why We Write, twenty well-known authors candidly share what keeps them going and what they love most—and least—about their vocation. About the AuthorMark Kramer is director and writer-in-residence of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University.
Wendy Call is a freelance writer and editor based in Seattle. She has been a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in southern Mexico and a Scholar in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writer‛ Conference. Table of ContentsTelling True Stories Acknowledgments Preface Part I: An Invitation to Narrative Stories Matter by Jacqui Banaszynski Delving into Private Lives by Gay Talese The Narrative Idea by David Halberstam Difficult Journalism That's Slap-Up Fun by Katherine Boo Part II: Finding, Researching, and Reporting Topics Introduction by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call Finding Good Topics: A Writer's Questions by Lane DeGregory Finding Good Topics: An Editor's Questions by Jan Winburn Reporting for Narrative: Ten Overlapping Rules by Mark Kramer To Tape or Not to Tape? by Adam Hochschild, Jacqui Banaszynski, Jon Franklin, and Gay Talese Interviewing: Accelerated Intimacy by Isabel Wilkerson The Psychological Interview by Jon Franklin Participatory Reporting: Sending Myself to Prison by Ted Conover Being There by Anne Hull Not Always Being There by Louise Kiernan Reporting Across Cultures by Victor Merina Reporting on Your Own by S. Mitra Kalita Field Notes to Full Draft by Tracy Kidder Doing Enough Reporting? by Walt Harrington From Story Idea to Published Story by Cynthia Gorney (Narrative) J School for People Who Never Went by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Part III: Name Your Subgenre Introduction by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call Profiles by Jacqui Banaszynski The Ladder of Abstraction by Roy Peter Clark Every Profile Is an Epic Story by Tomas Alex Tizon The Limits of Profiles by Malcolm Gladwell Travel Writing: Inner and Outer Journeys by Adam Hochschild The Personal Essay and the First-Person Character by Phillip Lopate First Personal Singular: Sometimes, It Is About You by DeNeen L. Brown Columns: Intimate Public Conversations by Donna Britt Writing About History by Jill Lepore Adventures in History by Melissa Fay Greene Narrative Investigative Writing by Katherine Boo Public Radio: Community Storytelling by Jay Allison Part IV: Constructing a Structure Introduction by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call What Narrative Writers Can Learn from Screenwriters by Nora Ephron To Begin the Beginning by DeNeen L. Brown Narrative Distance by Jack Hart Hearing Our Subjects' Voices: Quotes and Dialogue by Kelley Benham Hearing Our Subjects' Voices: Keeping It Real and True by Debra Dickerson Weaving Story and Idea by Nicholas Lemann Endings by Bruce DeSilva Part V: Building Quality into the Work Introduction by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call Character by Jon Franklin Details Matter by Walt Harrington Developing Character by Stanley Nelson Reconstructing Scenes by Adam Hochschild A Reconstructed Scene by Adam Hochschild Setting the Scene by Mark Kramer Handling Time by Bruce DeSilva Sequencing: Text as Line by Tom French Writing Complicated Stories by Louise Kiernan How I Get to the Point by Walt Harrington The Emotional Core of the Story by Tom Wolfe Telling the Story, Telling the Truth by Alma Guillermoprieto On Voice by Susan Orlean Part VI: Ethics Introduction by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call The Line Between Fact and Fiction by Roy Peter Clark Toward an Ethical Code for Narrative Journalists by Walt Harrington Playing Fair with Subjects by Isabel Wilkerson Securing Consent by Tracy Kidder Truth and Consequences by Katherine Boo Dealing with Danger: Protecting Your Subject and Your Story by Sonia Nazario A Dilemma of Immersion Journalism by Anne Hull Ethics in Personal Writing by Debra Dickerson Taking Liberties: The Ethics of the Truth by Loung Ung The Ethics of Attribution by Roy Peter Clark What About Endnotes? by Sonia Nazario and Nicholas Lemann Part VII: Editing Introduction by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call On Style by Emily Hiestand A Writer and Editor Talk Shop by Jan Winburn and Lisa Pollak Revising--Over and Over Again by Anne Hull Transforming One Hundred Notebooks into Thirty-five Thousand Words by Sonia Nazario How to Come Up Short by Tom Hallman Narrative in Four Boxes by Jacqui Banaszynski Serial Narratives by Tom French Care and Feeding of Editors and Writers by Jacqui Banaszynski Part VIII: Narrative in the News Organization Introduction by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call Beginning in Narrative by Walt Harrington A Brief History of Narrative in Newspaper by Jack Hart Nurturing Narrative in the Newsroom by Jack Hart A Storyteller's Lexicon by Jack Hart Narrative as a Daily Habit by Lane DeGregory Building a Narrative Team by Maria Carrillo Two Visions, One Series: A Writer and an Editor Talk About What They Do by Jacqui Banaszynski and Tomas Alex Tizon Team Storytelling by Louise Kiernan Photographer as Narrative Storyteller by Molly Bingham Subversive Storytellers: Starting a Narrative Group by Bob Batz Jr. Part IX: Building a Career in Magazines and Books Introduction by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call Making It as a Freelancer by Jim Collins Not Stopping: Time Management for Writers by Stewart O'Nan Lessons from the Jury Box by Jack Hart Working with an Agent by Melissa Fay Greene What Makes a Good Book? by Helene Atwan From Book Idea to Book Contract by Jim Collins Your Book and the Marketplace by Geri Thoma Crossing Over: From Advocacy to Narrative by Samantha Power A Passion for Writing by Susan Orlean Suggested Reading Web Sites and Internet Resources About the Editors About the Contributors Index What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 4 comments:
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