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CONTENTS Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 Part IThinking about Writing 5 1Let's Hear It for Story-tellers 7 2Constructing Stories 25 Part IIExamples of Great Writing 55 3 Reportage 57 Gary Younge, 'This fs not racism, it's politics', Guardian, 20 April 2000 57 Martha Gelhorn, 'Visit Italy', Colliers magazine, February 1944 60 Anthony Loyd, 'Kalashnikov matriarch emerges to tell of her life as an Afghan warlord', The Times (London), 21 October 2004 68 Martin Wainwright, 'Villagers clean up after flash floods', Guardian, 21 June 2005 70 4 General News Features 74 Oliver Burkeman, 'The fatal step', Guardian, 5 August 2004 74 Yvonne Roberts, 'Focus: Cannabis psychosis - off your head?', The Observer, 19 February 2006 80 5 Topical Features 90 Rachel Cusk, 'Sweetness and light', Vogue, January 2005 90 Emma Brockes, 'Call me sergeant', Guardian (G2), 13 December 2001 95 Wendell Steavenson, 'Osama's war: on getting to know an Iraqi terrorist', Granta, No. 87,September 2004 101 George Packer, 'Gansta war', New Yorker, 3 November 2003 109 6 Investigative Features 131 James Meek, 'The 10bn rail crash', Guardian, 1 April 2004 131 7Profiles and Celebrity Interviews 155 Libby Brooks, 'Private lives', Guardian (G2), 14 May 1999 155 Zoe Heller, 'The little emperor', Independent on Sunday (Sunday Review), 31 October 1993 161 Langdon Winner, The odyssey of Captain Beefheart', Rolling Stone, 14 May 1970 171 8 Arts, Sports and Music 185 Nancy Banks Smith, 'The funeral of Diana: trail of tears', Guardian (TV Review), 8 September 1997, page 12 185 Simon Barnes, 'Gone in 50 seconds, back in six minutes', The Times, 26 May 2005 189 Sasha Frere-Jones, '1979: the year punk died, and was reborn', New Yorker, I November 2004 191 9 Personal and Comment Columns 196 Gary Younge, 'Terms of abuse', Guardian, 25 February 2002 196 Catherine Bennett, 'Pay more, worry less? Not after Sudan 1', Guardian, 24 February 2005 200 Boris Johnson, 'Go forth and multiply', GQ, March 2004, page 174202 Marcelle D'Argy Smith, 'When a lovely flame dies', Cosmopolitan, May 1984 205 James Surowieki, 'Hello, Cleveland', New Yorker (Financial page), 16 May 2005 209 References 213 Index 216 |
