Writers to Read

Elmore Leonard's Writing Rules

Rick Bragg's Pulitzer Winners

Chapter 1 of Bragg's "All Over But The Shoutin"

Bill Lyon

Inquirer Series on Life in a Philadelphia Courtroom

Robert D. McFadden

Angelo Henderson

Mike McAlary

Profile of Pete Hamill

Hamill on Sinatra

Hamill's "A Drinking Life"

AP Leads on Famous Stories

Tom Ginsberg

David Sedaris

Phuong Le's Four-Part Series on Vietnam

A Day in the Life of Joey Wengyn

Time Magazine's Special Report on Columbine

Marjie Lundstrom on Covering Tragedy

James Fallows on the Invisible Poor

Lisa Pollak

Ron Suskind

Newsday's Coverage of TWA Flight 800

Thomas French

Maureen Dowd

Michiko Kakutani

Haruki Murakami

Nathan Englander

Ha Jin

Charles Frazier

Frank McCourt