The journalists whose reporting and storytelling acumen I most admire are Patrick Radden Keefe, Sarah Stillman and Evan Osnos at The New Yorker Jennifer Senior at The Atlantic Ian Shapira at The Washington Post and the lesser-known (but no less great) Lane DeGregory of The Tampa Bay Times, who once walked deep into the Gulf of Mexico in her dress so she could accurately report the dialogue of a young couple she was profiling. I’ve gotten to know them as well, and it’s a huge treat when your literary heroes turn out to be equally great people. Which writers - novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets - working today do you admire most?Īnna Quindlen and my fellow Virginian Lee Smith rightly take up the biggest portion of my shelves. If it’s a really great book, I make it a twofer and buy the physical book, too, so I can keep reading it when I arrive. I drive a lot for my reporting, and I love listening to a novel on the road. In warm weather, on our deck overlooking a riffling creek in the nearby Appalachian Mountains, the bird feeders busy and the cushy chaise longue placed just so.
Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). On deck I have a galley of Rachel Louise Snyder’s forthcoming memoir, “Women We Buried, Women We Burned,” which promises to be as poignant, propulsive and important as her previous book, “No Visible Bruises.” What’s the last great book you read?Ībraham Verghese’s “Cutting for Stone” kept me up reading until 5 a.m., and I’m always looking for another sweeping story that hooks me as thoroughly as that one. I just finished Geraldine Brooks’s “Horse” - set in contemporary times as well as the antebellum era and during the Civil War, but every story line is so pertinent to the issues of the day.
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