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The Tech Threat: Literary Journalism in the Age of Interruption
Digital tools can benefit their users as long as they do not overpower personal relationships and social bonds.
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Jacqueline Marino
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Stories That Matter: How the Los Angeles Times Brought Down the Golden Globes
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Stories That Matter: How Serena Daniari Is Highlighting Trans Pandemic Triumphs
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The Orgy Next Door: Ethical Relationships in Gay Talese's 'Thy Neighbor's Wife' and 'The Voyeur's Motel'
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The Essential COVID-19 Reading List
Ed Yong, staff writer at The Atlantic, shares some of the stories that informed his Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the pandemic.
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Kate Wheeling
Trans People Are Experts in Our Own Experience
Journalism should represent trans, nonbinary, and agender people's humanity, expertise, suffering, and triumphs. As a nonbinary writer, I asked what's…
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Rey Katz
Stories That Matter: How Ben Mauk and The New Yorker Took Readers — and Viewers — Inside China's Gulag State
Years of reporting on Xinjiang led to what's been described as "the most ambitious immersive visual storytelling [the magazine] has ever undertaken."
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Brian Ng
The Best of 2021, Part II
Reporting and writing from the past year worth revisiting.
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Cary Littlejohn
Searching for the Perfect Title: Madeleine Blais on 'The Heart Is an Instrument' and 'Uphill Walkers'
A series from award-winning authors and teachers of writing literary journalism on what they learned from the experience of titling their books.
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Madeleine Blais
Searching for the Perfect Title: Deborah Campbell on 'This Heated Place' and 'A Disappearance in Damascus'
A series from award-winning authors and teachers of writing literary journalism on what they learned from the experience of titling their books.
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Deborah Campbell
The Best of 2021, Part I
Reporting and writing from the past year worth revisiting.
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Cary Littlejohn
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