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Author:   Lane DeGregory ,  Beth Macy
Publisher:   The University of Chicago Press
Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780226771274

ISBN 10:   022677127
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   05 April 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Beth Macy Introduction Part 1. Short Stories 1. Talk to Strangers Diving Headlong into Sunny Eden: A Young Couple Flees Winter 2. Get a Life Zeke the Labrador: An Intuitive Dog Saves His Owner 3. Explore Rituals Finding the Right Words: A Boy Buys His First Valentine Spotlight: Finding Ideas 4. Wonder, Who Would Ever? Meet the “THE” Guy: Flag-Bearer of the Rodeo 5. Establish Intimacy A Brothers’ Bond: Autism Ties Twins Together 6. Don’t Judge The Truth Is Flexible: Learning How to Panhandle from the Pros 7. CAST Around Gone in a Flash: A Garbage Truck Driver Walks into a Bar 8. Unravel the Mystery A Message from Roger: Long Ago, a Boy Put a Note in a Bottle 9. Carve Out the Elephant Davion’s Prayer: A Teenage Orphan Goes to Church to Find a Family Part 2. On Assignment 10. Explore News Briefs The Saint and the Sacrifice: She Was Devoted to Her Sister but Wanted Her Life Back 11. Ignore Important People Stormy Daniels: The President’s Porn Star 12. Find a Guide Pulse Nightclub: Aftermath of the Orlando Shooting Tests a Young Man’s Courage 13. Listen to the Quiet The Storm Chaser: Riding out a Hurricane with the Weatherman 14. Wait for It Fast-Forward: IndyCar Champion’s Widow Faces a Dilemma with Their Young Sons Spotlight: Reporting 15. Go Back The Long Fall of Phoebe Jonchuck: Her Dad Threw Her off a Bridge into Tampa Bay 16. Find the Helpers Twelve Hours in an Intensive Care Unit: During the Pandemic Part 3. Narratives 17. Make a Difference The Girl in the Window: Can Love and a New Family Save a Feral Child? 18. Inhabit Their Heads Every Day Is Payday: His First Real Check 19. Braid Narratives The Last House in Rosewood: No One Asked the Owner about Her Story Spotlight: Writing and Editing 20. Follow the Story A Walk in the Woods: Miss Teen America Finds Freedom, for a Day 21. Find the Bruise on the Apple The Old Daredevil: Evel Knievel Comes Back to Earth 22. Use Their Voices The Swan Project: For Troubled Girls, Etiquette Classes Open Another World 23. Walk a Mile in Their Shoes Mr. Newton: A 99-Year-Old Man Still Sweeps a Seafood Factory 24. Get Personal I Brake for Bobo: A Boy Loses His Stuffed Elephant Acknowledgments  

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I have been studying (and teaching) DeGregory's stories for years. There is no one like her. In addition to being a showcase of her best work, this book is full of practical advice about how she's able to pull off what seems impossible, over and over. * Christopher Goffard, Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times * DeGregory performs magic in this beautiful, heartfelt book of stories-and then teaches you how she did it. This is a book for anyone who loves reading, writing, or both. * Mike Wilson, deputy sports editor for the New York Times *

“For journalism students and other aspiring writers of nonfiction, it’s a treasure trove of inside advice, woven around 24 articles written during the 23 years she has been on the staff of the Tampa Bay Times. For anyone who loves the craft of writing and the magic of story, the anthology is a feast.” * Tampa Bay Times * ""Tampa Bay Times reporter DeGregory debuts with a perceptive collection of 24 of her most popular pieces for the Times, each enhanced with commentary and annotations explaining how she reported them.  . . . The entries testify to the rich panorama of human experience and the writing guidance is a boon. Aspiring journalists will want to check this out. "" * Publishers Weekly * “I have been studying (and teaching) DeGregory’s stories for years. There is no one like her. In addition to being a showcase of her best work, this book is full of practical advice about how she’s able to pull off what seems impossible, over and over.” * Christopher Goffard, Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer for the Los Angeles Times * “DeGregory performs magic in this beautiful, heartfelt book of stories—and then teaches you how she did it. This is a book for anyone who loves reading, writing, or both.” * Mike Wilson, deputy sports editor for the New York Times * “I was barely a third of the way through ‘The Girl in the Window’ and Other True Tales and ready to swear on my stack of AP Stylebooks that I had never read a better collection of great journalism. And that’s only half of what this anthology by Tampa Bay Times writer Lane DeGregory is. The other half comprises annotations alongside each story by the Pulitzer winner (for the title story) about the insights, decisions, roadblocks, asides, and changes in direction that occurred to her along the way. . . . While it’s great reading for reporters and writers . . . it would be interesting to anyone who wants a view of what ‘the media’—when it means ‘journalism’—is doing.” * Press Club of Southwest Florida *

Author Information

Lane DeGregory is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Tampa Bay Times and host of the podcast WriteLane. Beth Macy is the author of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America.

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