"Every narrative journalist can point to a story or a book, or two, that changed their lives, and that made them want to tell true stories," Paige Williams writes on Nieman Storyboard. Williams surveys a half-dozen college writing teachers — Jacqui Banaszynski, Mark Bowden, Madeleine Blais, Rob Boynton, Jeff Sharlet and Rebecca Skloot — on the books, magazine articles and newspaper stories that they use when trying to inspire young and aspiring writers, and themselves.
September 23, 2012