Tuesday, June 16, 2015

An Intimate and Riveting Saga of Poverty and Urban Life


By Julianna Haubner    |   Monday, June 15, 2015 Off the Shelf
There’s an age-old saying (and Bruce Springsteen lyric) that you can’t start a fire without a spark. This is often true in literature—sometimes all it takes to create a great story is to find something that inspires you to write it. Though most might think of this saying in the context of novels, I think it’s even more true in the case of nonfiction. In a world dominated by the twenty-four-hour news cycle, how do you write about something happening in the world that people will continue to care about?... 

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