The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 2

George Getschow teaches in the University of North Texas's Mayborn School of Journalism, USA and is the writer-in-residence for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. He was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal bureau in Chicago and also chief of the Dallas and Houston bureaus. Getschow was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

"The Best American Newspaper Narratives Volume 2 gathers stories with wide-ranging but universal themes: frustration and fear, heroics and hubris, chaos and compassion. . . . The stories pack emotional wallops, delving into the manhunt for a killer in Los Angeles, tagging along as the Boston bombers carjack a young man, and ushering readers aboard the Bounty as the tall ship attempts an ill-fated journey around Hurricane Sandy. . . . This collection calls to mind great American writers of the past--Ernest Hemingway, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane--who were once journalists."--Maria Carrillo, Houston Chronicle "Volume Two contains the work of more than a dozen writers, representing newspapers that have been long associated with storytelling and enterprise work: the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Virginian-Pilot, the Arizona Republic, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Poynter's own Tampa Bay Times. . . . Readers of this book will benefit from a crafty and insightful introduction from Getschow himself. I tend not to be much inspired by book introductions, but this one gave me intellectual goose bumps. . . . My only criticism of The Best American Newspaper Narratives--I offer it as a compliment in disguise--is that it left me wanting even more."--Roy Peter Clark, The Poynter Institute Mediawire