“There’s a lot I learned in journalism school about accuracy and inverted pyramids and the five “W’s”…but when I think of the narrative nonfiction I most enjoy, I have my Southern roots to thank. It was while sitting on a front porch listening to my grandfather that I learned to love a good story.” — Patsy Sims

Includes the first act of Charles Portis’s unpublished play; Kevin Brockmeier returns to seventh grade; a forum of seasoned journalists on what they learned in school; investigating fracking in Arkansas; and much more.