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...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 L. Halberstam ’55, and Malcolm Gladwell—to offer their best or most concise advice to audiences of aspiring journalists. A full 91 of these presentations are collected in “Telling True Stories.” Contradicting and disagreeing with one another...
...movie palace. “I think it’s a really important thing, and I’m proud to help out. Some of my really good friends are associated with the theater, and I’m happy to support that.” Susan Orlean, the New Yorker writer and author of the book “The Orchid Thief”—who Streep played in its 2002 screen meta-adaptation, “Adaptation”—serves on the Advisory Panel of the Coolidge.In “Prairie...
...toxic house mold. "Nagin just put us in a very bad situation," says Brenda Davis, 44, a resident of the Algiers district across the river from the French Quarter. She, her daughter and four grandchildren paid a stranger $220 to drive them from their evacuee housing back to New Orlean-only to find their home unlivable and with no transportation to get back out. "It was too soon," says Davis. "He should have made sure everything was right before he told us to come back...
...springs from both a natural personal interest in the unfamiliar and a desire to open new worlds for readers. “As a writer, you’re always making choices, and the very first choice you make is what you deem worth writing about,” Orlean commented...
...Orlean, the goal of the writing is “to be able to gently lead people into reading about a world that they don’t know about or didn’t think they could care about.” So go ahead, give the taxidermy story a read-through—you may find yourself competing in the next championship...