Follow the Story

Author: James B. Stewart
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439127565
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Book Description
An indispensable guide to nonfiction writing from the Columbia Journalism School professor and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist behind the bestsellers Blind Eye, Blood Sport, and Den of Thieves. In Follow the Story, bestselling author and journalist James B. Stewart teaches you the techniques of compelling narrative writing, from nonfiction books to articles, feature stories, or memoirs. Stewart provides concrete directions for conceiving, reporting, structuring, and writing nonfiction—techniques that he has used in his own successful books and stories. By using examples from his own work, Stewart illustrates systematically a way of thinking about and executing stories, a method that has helped numerous reporters and Columbia students become better writers. Follow the Story examines in detail: - How an idea is conceived - How to “sell” ideas to editors and publishers - How to report the nonfiction story - Six models that can be used for any nonfiction story - How to structure the narrative story - How to write introductions, endings, dialogue, and description - How to introduce and develop characters - How to use literary devices - Pitfalls to avoid Learn a clear way of looking at the world with the alert curiosity that is the first indispensable step toward good writing.

Follow the Drinking Gourd

Author: Cari Meister
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1404873759
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

Book Description
Peg Leg Joe travels from plantation to plantation singing the Drinking Gourd song that will guide slaves to freedom in the North.

Follow Follow

Author: Marilyn Singer
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0803737696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34

Book Description
Now one of Booklist's 30 Best Books of the Year! "Genius!" – Wired.com “Marilyn Singer's verse in Follow Follow practically dances down each page . . . the effect is miraculous and pithy.” – The Wall Street Journal Once upon a time, Mirror Mirror, a brilliant book of fairy tale themed reversos–a poetic form in which the poem is presented forward and then backward–became a smashing success. Now a second book is here with more witty double takes on well-loved fairy tales such as Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid. Read these clever poems from top to bottom and they mean one thing. Then reverse the lines and read from bottom to top and they mean something else–it is almost like magic! A celebration of sight, sound, and story, this book is a marvel to read again and again.

Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

Author: Eric Von Schmidt
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Long out of print, Baby, Let Me Follow You Down is a classic in the history of American popular culture. The book tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late 1950s to the heyday of the folk music revival in the early 1960s. Hundreds of historical photographs, rescreened for this edition, and dozens of interviews combine to re-create the years when Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, and a lively band of Cambridge folksingers led a generation in the rediscovery of American folk music. Compiled by two musicians who were active participants in the Cambridge folk scene, the volume documents a special time in United States culture when the honesty and vitality of traditional folk music were combined with the raw power of urban blues and the high energy of electric rock and roll to create a new American popular music.

Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves

Author: Sidney Thompson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496218752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an origin story in the true American tradition. Before Bass Reeves could stake his claim as the most successful nineteenth-century American lawman, arresting more outlaws than any other deputy during his thirty-two-year career as a deputy U.S. marshal in some of the most dangerous regions of the Wild West, he was a slave. After a childhood picking cotton, he became an expert marksman under his master’s tutelage, winning shooting contests throughout the region. His skill had serious implications, however, as the Civil War broke out. Reeves was given to his master’s mercurial, sadistic, Moby-Dick-quoting son in the hopes that Reeves would keep him safe in battle. The ensuing humiliation, love, heroics, war, mind games, and fear solidified Reeves’s determination to gain his freedom and drew him one step further on his fated path to an illustrious career. Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves is an important historical work that places Reeves in the pantheon of American heroes and a thrilling historical novel that narrates a great man’s exploits amid the near-mythic world of the nineteenth-century frontier.

Lead, Follow Or Get Out of the Way

Author: Christian Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Ted Turner is that rare man who is as much reviled by some as revered by others: He's a sportsman (he owns professional baseball, hockey and basketball teams, as well as having been a world-renowned sailor and winner of the Americas Cup), a businessman of proven talents, a big talker who usually lives up to his own billing, and a front-page celebrity whose combative instincts for the right place and right time will keep him there for many years to come.

Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence

Author: Grant Milnor Hyde
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
The purpose of this book is to guide aspiring newspaper reporters in writing the types of stories that their future publication will require of them, and to assist inexperienced reporters and journalists in producing clean, minimal-editing copy. Rather than discussing the reasoning behind the newspaper industry, the focus is on the technical aspect of a reporter's job. Writing ability is considered to be the primary asset of a reporter, and there is no room in this book to delve into newspaper organization, business operations, advertisement writing, editorial writing principles, or newspaper policy and practices. These topics are not relevant to a beginner reporter during the initial stages of their career and will be learned through experience as needed. The reporter's success depends solely on their ability to gather news and write it effectively.

Time and Narrative, Volume 1

Author: Paul Ricoeur
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226713328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.

Writing for Children

Author: Pat Alexander
Publisher: Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
ISBN: 9719606304
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
Offers practical ideas and techniques for writing better stories for children. Gives the broad picture and detailed "e;how to"e; techniques to assist you in plot development.

Kosmoautikon

Author: Mark Chandos
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503587037
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
Why should you read the KOSMOAUTIKON Epic Cycle? KOSMOAUTIKON has information of the long count of the Human Condition. No other work of American literature observes the ancient origins of the human genome. No other poem projects the force of the strong poet into a Space faring civilization. KOSMOAUTIKON does not repeat any modernist clichés. Modernism can only detect modernism. Modern literature can only regurgitate modernist linguistic codices – a fascination with disease, medical mythos, and the omnipotence of laboratory science. KOSMOAUTIKON accuses the madness of this modernist experiment. Instead, KOSMOAUTIKON detects the astral position of the human mind. A story is told that places man in a position of power in relation to the universe. Modernism treats men as irrelevant parasites. In story Theory man is the center of all things, since only the human has a terra- forming mind. KOSMOAUTIKON creates a new linguistic codex to project a new advance in the human Genome. A new linguistic structure must always prepare the way for any human advance. “I had to remove your planet – and then your bones.” KOSMOAUTIKON tells the story of Rogue males. Who are our rogue males? Alexander, Christ, Cesar, Dante, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Henry VIII, Edward De Vere (Shake-speare), Beethoven, Francis bacon, Oscar Wilde (etc.). Western civilization has been made by rogue males. No other modern text would even dare to discuss the power of the rogue male. Modernism seeks to inoculate, medicate, or incarcerate the rogue male – early. Yet there will be rogues makes again – and they will change the human genome. This is the story of KOSMOAUTIKON There is no other document that contains future speech. No Western person of the future can be educated without first reading KOSMOAUTIKON.