Tracy Kidder Concepts

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

by Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd · 15 Jan 2013 · 160pp · 53,435 words

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HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Kidder, Tracy. Good prose : the art of nonfiction / Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. eISBN: 978-0-679-60472-3 1. Authorship. 2. Prose literature—Authorship. 3. Creative nonfiction—Authorship. I

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Haag, Michael Janeway, Suzannah Lessard, Michael Ponsor, and Barbara Wallraff. Above all, we owe thanks to our families for their patience and wisdom. ALSO BY TRACY KIDDER The Soul of a New Machine House Among Schoolchildren Old Friends Home Town Mountains Beyond Mountains My Detachment Strength in What Remains ALSO BY RICHARD

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TODD The Thing Itself ABOUT THE AUTHORS TRACY KIDDER graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award

Rough Sleepers: Dr. Jim O'Connell's Urgent Mission to Bring Healing to Homeless People

by Tracy Kidder · 17 Jan 2023 · 270pp · 88,213 words

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Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Kidder, Tracy, author. Title: Rough sleepers: Dr. Jim O’Connell and his quest to create a community of care / Tracy Kidder. Description: First edition. | New York: Random House, [2023] Identifiers: LCCN 2022017445 (print) | LCCN 2022017446 (ebook) | ISBN 9781984801432 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781984801449 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: O’Connell

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: Confession Chapter 9: The Night Watchman Part VIII: The Portrait Gallery Chapter 1: A Pandemic Season Chapter 2: The Portrait Gallery Dedication Acknowledgments Sources By Tracy Kidder About the Author _142395937_ Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who watch or work or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those

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: Beacon Press, 1999. O’Connell, James J. Stories from the Shadows: Reflections of a Street Doctor. Boston: Boston Health Care for the Homeless, 2015. By Tracy Kidder Rough Sleepers A Truck Full of Money Good Prose (with Richard Todd) Strength in What Remains My Detachment Mountains Beyond Mountains Home Town Old Friends

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Among Schoolchildren House The Soul of a New Machine About the Author Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many

Strength in What Remains

by Tracy Kidder · 29 Feb 2000 · 267pp · 91,984 words

ALSO BY TRACY KIDDER The Soul of a New Machine House Among Schoolchildren Old Friends Home Town Mountains Beyond Mountains My Detachment To Christopher Henry Kidder Though nothing can

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. “World’s Poorest Countries: Lowest GNP Nations Highlight African Poverty,” October 22, 2006. http://internationaltrade.suite101.com/article.cfm/worlds_poorest_countries. ABOUT THE AUTHOR TRACY KIDDER graduated from Harvard, studied at the University of Iowa, and served as an army officer in Vietnam. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National

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, Among Schoolchildren, House, The Soul of a New Machine, Mountains Beyond Mountains, and My Detachment, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine. Copyright © 2009 by John Tracy Kidder All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc

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York. RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Kidder, Tracy. Strength in what remains / Tracy Kidder. p. cm. eISBN: 978-1-58836-851-5 1. Burundian Americans—Biography. 2. Immigrants—United States— Biography. 3. Genocide—Burundi—History—20th century. 4. Refugees

Among Schoolchildren

by Tracy Kidder · 14 Jun 1989 · 327pp · 102,361 words

this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2 Park Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02108. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kidder, Tracy. Among schoolchildren / Tracy Kidder, p. cm. "A Richard Todd book." ISBN 0-395-47591-0 1. Elementary school teaching—United States—Case studies. 2. Fifth grade (Education)—United States

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

by John Green · 18 Mar 2025 · 158pp · 49,742 words

the early 1990s, when Peru became one of the first countries in South America to implement a comprehensive DOTS program aligned with WHO guidelines. As Tracy Kidder writes in Mountains Beyond Mountains, Peru’s TB program came into being “largely because of protests staged by residents…by their nuns and priests.” The

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their work on drug-resistant tuberculosis, check out Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder, one of the most important and deeply moving books I’ve ever read. About the Author John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author

The Year Without Pants: Wordpress.com and the Future of Work

by Scott Berkun · 9 Sep 2013 · 361pp · 76,849 words

, their exuberance was undeniable. They'd do this work on their own time, for pleasure. In his classic book The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder noticed that Data General's efforts to hire people with strong internal motivations changed things: “Labor was no longer coerced. Labor volunteered. When you signed

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-shared-workspaces.html?_r=0 for background. For a directory of spaces around the world, see http://wiki.coworking.com/w/page/29303049/Directory. 6 Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine (New York: Back Bay Books, 2000), 63. 7 Valve Handbook for New Employees (Bellevue, WA: Valve Corporation, 2012), http

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a participant. When I realized I had a chance to write that book, I studied the journalistic forms of project reporting and first-person narrative. Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine (Back Bay Books, 2000) defined the tech project book genre, and it holds up best when you consider that

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(New Directions, 1970), and dozens more. My goal was to internalize the advantages of first-person storytelling and avoid the downsides commonly found in memoirs. Tracy Kidder and his editor, Richard Todd, published Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction (Random House, 2013), which was timed perfectly as nighttime reading while I worked

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them about WordPress, Automattic, and remote work. Cheers to all of the Automatticians I worked with who passionately pursue their ideals for great work. To Tracy Kidder, Ted Conover, George Orwell, and Alain De Botton for inspiration. Kudos to David Fugate, my agent, for various acts of magic and charming practicality. Music

Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs

by Ken Kocienda · 3 Sep 2018 · 255pp · 76,834 words

was going to deliver it, someone had to “sign up” for the work and get it done. I first encountered the term “signing up” in Tracy Kidder’s Soul of a New Machine, a Pulitzer Prize–winning book on the quest to develop a new minicomputer at Data General Corporation in the

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’s introduction and portions describing the Power Sweep at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uv4CXySXxCk. 10. Lombardi, HBO Sports. 5. The Hardest Problem 1. Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine (New York: The Modern Library, 1997), pp. 82–83. 2. Wikipedia contributors, “White-Naped Xenopsaris,” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Art of Creative Nonfiction: Writing and Selling the Literature of Reality

by Lee Gutkind and Purba · 1 Jan 1997 · 196pp · 65,045 words

related to his profession, but the vast majority of creative nonfiction writers have little official connection to the subjects about which they choose to write. Tracy Kidder has become a fly on the wall with construction companies (House) and elementary schools (Among School Children). Gay Talese (Honor Thy Father), John McPhee (Coming

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doors is quite special, it is not that rare for experienced creative nonfiction writers, especially those who specialize in what is often called immersion journalism. Tracy Kidder and John McPhee have forged their leading reputations in the immersion journalism field because of their willingness to invest the time necessary to literally immerse

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in the context of one match; and Oranges, which might be subtitled "Everything you never imagined but found fascinating to learn about a favorite fruit." Tracy Kidder seems to specialize in year-in-the-life experiences, from inside a nursing home, to an elementary school classroom, to what is often described as

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or was in any way intrusive, such boundaries were never raised. 10.3 Hanging In The secret of successful immersion is longevity. As I said, Tracy Kidder has been willing to immerse himself for a year and more in a project; this does not include the research and other preparatory work and

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Moon Dispatches, Michael Herr All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot Hiroshima, John Hersey Far-Flung Hubbell, Sue Hubbell Liar's Club, Mary Karr House, Tracy Kidder Not Necessarily a Benign Procedure, Perri Klass There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz Cowboy, Jane Kramer Invasive Procedures, Mark Kramer The Balloon Lady and

The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

by M. Mitchell Waldrop · 14 Apr 2001

to play catch-up-especially Data Gen- eral. (That company's struggle to produce an answer to the VAX would be beau- tifully chronicled in Tracy Kidder's 1981 book, The Soul of a New Machine.) By 1977 DEC's revenues had passed $1 billion per year. Along the way, meanwhile, all

Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone

by Satya Nadella, Greg Shaw and Jill Tracie Nichols · 25 Sep 2017 · 391pp · 71,600 words

do we exist? I told them it was time for us to rediscover our soul—what makes us unique. One of my favorite books is Tracy Kidder’s The Soul of a New Machine about another tech company, Data General, in the 1970s. In it, Kidder teaches us that technology is nothing