Ted Conover has been a correction officer at Sing Sing Prison and a cab driver in Aspen; he hopped freight trains for a year while living as a hobo and crossed the U.S.-Mexican border with undocumented immigrants. All of this in the name of that particular brand of essayistic narrative journ
Joan Didion has long attempted to show us how to tell a story. Her particular brand of journalism is incisive yet not omniscient, sentimental but never romantic. Reading Didion, you never lose sense of her as the storyteller, and it is her voice you learn to trust. She ends her introduction to Slouc