Beginning with George Orwell and culminating with Patrick Radden Keefe, this course is designed to inspire and instruct students on how to write the literary longform. Excellent non-fiction requires rigorous fact-based reporting to craft eloquent prose. In this class, students will learn to report and to write. Along with close reading of the finest non-fiction practitioners, students will build, bone by bone, a spine of interviews, timelines, and sources to craft story elements. We will focus on going deep on a single subject to fashion one semester-long longform piece.
