Tommy Tomlinson deconstructs the 1976 hit "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" for Nieman Storyboard and shows how it resembles a well-written short news story, complete with a literary hook, shifts in perspective, rising tension, and details that foreshadow the ship's tragic sinking: "He even has a nut graf! It’s not explicit, but you know the gales of November did something bad to a very big ship. That’s enough — and better than revealing everything up top."
