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Memoir writers often start out with less trepidation than their fiction-scribbling peers. They already know the story, right? They’re familiar with the characters, and they can picture the scenes [...]

The building blocks of drama We all recognize the scenario. We’ve got the story – or at least the beginning and the end – in our heads. We know our characters. But now we have to start, to [...]

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David Grann is an American investigative reporter who has over the years won a slew of awards for his work. I remember a piece I read in the New Yorker some years ago which has been described as [...]