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...Young people are more likely to get a news story from someone else, which is surprising, because other surveys had suggested that older people talked more about news amongst themselves,” Patterson said. “That was particularly true in the case of soft news stories??many of them circulated by word of mouth...
Madison explained that she became interested in sex when she realized how much it affected her life. She did not, incidentally, detail why she is “such a slut,” instead sharing a string of tips and embarrassing stories?? for instance, the tale of her first yeast infection. Of course, she also delivered the usual clichés: “Good sex begins with good decision-making.” No kidding...
...Nonfiction Writer’s Guide” is full of them. Purporting to teach aspiring writers useful things like “Finding, Researching, and Reporting Topics” and “Building a Career in Magazines and Books,” “Telling True Stories?? is a collection of essays derived from the five annual Neiman Conferences on Narrative Journalism held from 2001 to 2006. Hosted by Harvard’s Neiman Foundation for Journalism, the conferences allowed practitioners of narrative journalism—including Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, Susan Orlean, David...
This massive collection of thirty-two stories??all but one of which was written specifically for the anthology—is the first publication of the newly-formed International Thriller Writers, Inc., an organization of over 400 writers that seeks to celebrate the genre while enhancing its prestige and profile. With the entertaining “Thriller,” the organization succeeds in advancing the merits of the thriller not simply as shoot-em-up escapism, but as a respectable form of fiction in its own right...
...putting these two stories together was to illuminate the impact of technology on society—or, as the creatively adapted “turn-off-your-cell-phones” warning succinctly stated, “Technology’s a bitch.” However, the stories??and their juxtaposition—work most interestingly as an examination of fantasy and reality. “The Veldt,” in which a virtual-reality playroom takes over the lives of a family, and “To the Chicago Abyss,” about...