Documentary Writing Program: CDS Launches the True/Story Lab
Come visit the True/Story Lab, the new online home for all things “documentary writing” at the Center for Documentary Studies. “We often get asked what we mean by documentary writing,“ says CDS writer in residence Duncan Murrell. “One of the last things the broad field of nonfiction needs is another subcategory, or a new name for an old category, [...]
Good Read: Interview With Duncan Murrell, CDS Writer in Residence
Duncan Murrell is an award-winning writer and journalist from North Carolina. He is a contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine and The Normal School and a consulting editor at Southern Cultures. Murrell has written about living in New Orleans for a year after Hurricane Katrina, as well as on such topics as immigration, politicians, termites, vultures, [...]
Documentary Writing Speaker Series / Jeff Sharlet, “Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country In Between”
Sweet Heaven When I Die is that hard to find thing: an honest, careful, hard-hitting book that looks at religion as part of the continuum of passions and beliefs that Americans share. Sharlet’s previous book, the New York Times bestseller The Family, provided a groundbreaking, widely praised expose of the influence of Christian fundamentalism at [...]
Accepting Applications—Master Class: Nonfiction Writing with Ted Conover, Roger Hodge, and Duncan Murrell
The Center for Documentary Studies is pleased to announced that National Book Critics Circle Award winner Ted Conover and former editor of Harper’s Magazine Roger Hodge will lead week-long workshops this summer in narrative nonfiction, journalism, and documentary writing. This is an unusual opportunity to work closely with two of our finest writers and editors [...]
Wells Tower: Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
“Truth Out of Artifice: A Talk with Wells Tower” Friday, April 23, 7 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium Wells Tower, author of the much-acclaimed book of short stories Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned and many other stories and articles, will discuss his development as a writer and especially the affinities between fiction and nonfiction. The [...]
Roger Hodge Speaks at CDS in March 2010
Roger Hodge at the Center for Documentary Studies from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo. Roger Hodge, Part 2: Q&A from Center for Documentary Studies on Vimeo.
“My Rise and Fall: Roger Hodge on The State of Magazines”
“My Rise and Fall: Roger Hodge on The State of Magazines” Friday, March 5, 7 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies Auditorium Roger Hodge, until recently the editor of Harper’s Magazine, will discuss the prospects of long-form journalism into the future as he recounts his experiences working with writers and offers his perspectives on the shifting [...]
Documentary Speaker Series: Roger Hodge, Wells Tower, and Rebecca Skloot
Documentary Narrative Speaker Series: Roger Hodge (March 5), Rebecca Skloot (March 24), and Wells Tower (April 23) Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University DIRECTIONS: http://cds.aas.duke.edu/about/here.html All events held at CDS unless otherwise noted. The Documentary Narrative Speaker Series is presented in conjunction with the CDS course Documentary Writing, taught this spring by Duncan Murrell. [...]
Documentary Writing: A Conversation With Roger Hodge And Duncan Murrell
Documentary Writing: A Conversation With Roger Hodge And Duncan Murrell March 4, 2009 6:30 p.m. Please join us for a conversation about documentary writing — what defines the genre, where it’s practiced, why it makes a lasting impact — with the editor of Harper’s Magazine and an accomplished journalist whose mastery of long-form narrative writing [...]
