Please upload a post discussing the ways that Andrea Elliott organized this prize-winning feature story.

What techniques does Amy Fox use in narrating this conflict story? Who are her sources? What kind of research did she do? What is the arc of this conflict story and where is the nut graf?

Please print out a copy of Battle in Black and White from the link on our class syllabus:

We will also continue with presentations of your Community Service

Stories.

Please post your draft (password protected) AND bring in a hard copy.

Also be ready to read and discuss your lead and your nut graf.

RB

Alternative Assignment:

For those of you who did not attend the Gaitskill reading, the alternative assignment is to write a profile of a classmate. Deadline: By December 4th. Please do not upload until piece receives approval. I have created a new category under Profiles: Class Profiles.

RB

Please read and bring to class a copy of “Heaven’s Angels” for class discussion.

Also, be prepared to talk about your Community Services story.

You should know basic facts about the organization and have done some preliminary poking into the story.

RB

Please give me a hard copy of your small business final story for grading. If you are still editing it, let me know, but the official deadline is Thursday, October 30th for final hard copies.

Prof. B.

For discussion on Thursday, October 23rd:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/nyregion/barnes-noble-to-leave-the-bronx-after-15-years.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0

Prof. B.

Dear Feature Writers:

Here is a link to one of Mary Gaitskill’s short stories. It appeared in The New Yorker Magazine.    http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/09/dont-cry

Please read this story for class discussion on Tuesday, October 28th–before her evening reading.

RB

Post a couple paragraphs critiquing one of Liebling’s chapters: either one of his profiles of the undertaker or the Tummler, or his analysis \/description of a City block, Does he make an effort to be an objective observer and if so, how?