The Missouri Group's clear and authoritative step-by-step approach comes from years in the field and in the classroom. Through extensive contemporary examples and dependable, no-frills advice, the Missouri Group teaches students the reporting and writing skills they need to become effective journalists in every medium and for every beat. The ninth edition of News Reporting and Writing addresses students' greatest challenges by providing more writing help than ever before. It prepares students for the realities of today's news rooms with the most contemporary coverage of new trends in journalism including convergence, citizen journalism, and researching online. A reinvigorated new text design emphasizes what's important, increases ease of navigation, and makes salient features and examples quicker and easier to find.

Product Description: Chino, a young journalist, faces the death of his father. At the same time, he writes a story on street clowns, sad characters that roam the streets of a corrupt and violent Lima. This story by Daniel Alarcon was part of his first book, Guerra a la luz de las velas...read more

Product Description: El rey siempre está por encima del pueblo recoge las historias de una serie de personajes cuyas vidas carecen de heroísmo. Y sin embargo, en todas ellas subyace la violencia y la voluntad de rebelión ante una figura paterna o paternalista, ante el poder en cualquiera de sus formas...read more

Product Description: The world's best contemporary writers―from Michael Chabon and Claire Messud to Jonathan Lethem and Amy Tan―engage in a wide-ranging, insightful, and oft- surprising roundtable discussion on the art of writing fictionDrawing back the curtain on the mysterious process of writing novels, The Secret Miracle brings together the foremost practitioners of the craft to discuss how they write...read more

Imparting comfort while reading the names of missing people to her war-ravaged listeners, radio host Norma finds her life irrevocably changed when a young boy from a remote jungle village provides a connection to her long-missing husband.

Product Description: Book by Alarcon, Daniel

Product Description: Something is happening. Wars, both national and internal, are being waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy of New York apartments. War by Candlelight is an exquisite collection of stories that carry the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people -- a devastating portrait of a world in flux -- and Daniel Alarcón is an extraordinary new voice in literary fiction, one you will not soon forget...read more

Presents fiction by twenty-one American authors under thirty-five, chosen to represent a new generation of promising writers, and revealing the subjects that appeal to the imagination in the contemporary United States.

Imparting comfort while reading the names of missing people to her war-ravaged listeners, radio host Norma finds her life irrevocably changed when a young boy from a remote jungle village provides a connection to her long-missing husband.

Nine short stories about people who have been displaced by war or economic crises take readers from the jungles and the streets of Lima to the sites of dangerous border crossings and intimate New York apartments, in a collection that features the experiences of terrorists, immigrants, and more.