Telling true stories : a nonfiction writers' guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University / edited by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Mark Kramer and Wendy Call -- Part I. An Invitation to Narrative : -- Stories Matter / Jacqui Banaszynski -- Delving into Private Lives / Gay Talese -- The Narrative Idea / David Halberstam -- Difficult Journalism That's Slap-Up Fun / Katherine Boo -- Part II. Finding, Researching, and Reporting Topics : -- Introduction / Mark Kramer and Wendy Call -- Finding Good Topics: A Writer's Questions / Lane DeGregory -- Finding Good Topics: An Editor's Questions / Jan Winburn -- Reporting for Narrative: Ten Overlapping Rules / Mark Kramer -- To Tape or Not to Tape? / Jacqui Banaszynski, Jon Franklin, Gay Talese, and Adam Hochschild -- Interviewing: Accelerated Intimacy / Isabel Wilkerson -- The Psychological Interview / Jon Franklin -- Participatory Reporting: Sending Myself to Prison / Ted Conover -- Being There / Anne Hull -- Not Being There / Jacqui Banaszynski -- Not Always Being There / Louise Kiernan -- Reporting Across Cultures / Victor Merina -- Reporting on Your Own / Mitra Kalita -- Field Notes to Full Draft / Tracy Kidder -- Doing Enough Reporting? / Walt Harrington -- From Story Idea to Published Story / Cynthia Gorney -- (Narrative) J-school for People Who Never Went / Adrian Nicole LeBlanc -- Part III. Name Your Sub-Genre: Introduction{Mark Kramer and Wendy Call} : -- Profiles / Jacqui Banaszynski -- The Limits of Profiles / Malcolm Gladwell -- The Ladder of Abstraction / Roy Peter Clark -- Every Profile is an Epic Journey / Tomas Alex Tizon -- Travel Writing: Inner and Outer Journeys / Adam Hochschild -- The Personal Essay and the First-Person Character / Phillip Lopate -- Tips for Writing Personal Essays / Victor Merina -- First Personal Singular: It's Not Just About You / Adam Hochschild -- First Personal Singular: Sometimes, It Must Be About You / DeNeen Brown -- Columns: Intimate Public Conversations / Donna Britt --

Part VI. Ethics : -- Introduction / Mark Kramer and Wendy Call -- The line between fact and fiction / Roy Peter Clark -- toward an ethical code for narrative journalists / Walt Harrington -- Playing fair with subjects / Isabel Wilkerson -- Securing consent / Tracy Kidder -- Truth and consequences / Katherine Boo -- Dealing with danger: Protecting your subject and your story / Sonia Nazario -- A dilemma of immersion journalism / Anne Hull -- Ethics in personal writing / Debra Dickerson -- taking liberties: The ethics of the truth / Loung Ung -- The ethics of attribution / Roy Peter Clark -- What about endnote? / Sonia Nazario and Nicholas Lemann -- Part VII. Editing : -- Introduction / Mark Kramer and Wendy Call -- On style / Emily Hiestand -- A writer and editor talk shop / Jan Winburn and Lisa Pollak -- Revising - over and over again / Anne Hull -- Transforming one hundred notebooks into thirty-five thousand words / Sonia Nazario -- How to come up short / Tom Hallman -- Narrative in four boxes / Jacqui Banaszynski -- Serial narratives / Tom French -- Care and feeding of editors and writers / Jacqui Banaszynski --

Part VIII. Narrative in the news organization : -- Introduction / Mark Kramer and Wendy Call -- Beginning the narrative / Walt Harrington -- A brief history of narrative in newspaper / Jack Hart -- Nurturing narrative in the newspaper / Jack Hart -- A storyteller's lexicon / Jack Hart -- Narrative as a daily habit / Lane DeGrgory -- Building a narrative team / Maria Carrillo -- Two visions, one series: A writer and and editor talk about what they do / Jacqui Banaszynsk and Tomas Alex Tizon -- Team storytelling / Louise Kiernan -- Photographer as narrative storyteller / Molly Bingham -- Subversive storytellers: Starting a narrative group / Bob Batz Jr -- Part IX. Building a career in magazines and books : -- Introduction / Mark Kramer and Wendy Call -- Making it as a freelancer / Jim Collins -- Not stopping: Time management for writers / Stewart O'Nan -- Lessons from the jury box / Jack Hart -- Working with an agent / Melissa Fay Greene -- What makes a good book? / Helene Atwan -- From book idea to book contract / Jim Collins -- Your book and the marketplace / Geri Thoma -- Crossing over: from advocacy to narrative / Samantha Power -- A passion for writing / Susan Orlean.

Writing about history / Jill Lepore -- Adventures in history / Melissa Fay Greene -- Narrative investigative writing / Katherine Boo -- Public radio: Community storytelling / Jay Allison -- Part IV. Constructing a structure : -- Introduction / Mark Kramer and Wendy Call -- What narrative writers can learn from screenwriters / Nora Ephron -- to begin the beginning / DeNeen L. Brown -- Narrative distance / Jack Hart -- Hearing our subjects' voices: Quotes and dialogue / Kelley Benham -- Hearing our subjects' voices: Keeping it real and true / Debra Dickerson -- A story structure / Jon Franklin -- Summary versus dramatic narrative / Jack Hart -- Weaving story and idea / Nicholas Lemann -- Endings / Bruce DeSilva -- Part V. Building quality into the work : -- Introduction / Mark Kramer and Wendy Call -- Character / Jon Franklin -- Details matter / Walt Harrington -- Developing character / Stanley Nelson -- Reconstructing scenes / Adam Hochschild -- A reconstructed scene / Adam Hochschild -- Setting the scene / Mark Kramer -- Handling time / Bruce DeSilva -- Sequencing: Text as line / Tom French -- Writing complicated stories / Louise Kiernan -- How I get to the point / Walt Harrington -- The emotional core of the story / Tom Wolfe -- Telling the story, telling the truth / Alma Guillermoprieto -- On voice / Susan Orlean --

"This is a collection of 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. This work presents their best advice, covering everything from finding a good topic, to structuring narrative stories, to writing and selling your first book."--Publisher information.

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