Story Lab: September 19, 2010 - September 25, 2010

Inside the death chamber: A reporter's view

Veteran Washington Post crime and justice reporter Maria Glod was a media witness to the execution of Teresa Lewis on Thursday night. Lewis was the first woman executed by Virginia in nearly 100 years. Here is Glod's account of the...

By Maria Glod  | September 24, 2010; 12:37 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (6)
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Story pick: The fighting lady

I know, I know. Boxing. Again. So now you see I'm in that particular writing hell where I feel stuck, and so I keep looking for inspiration. So - this week's third and final boxing pick of the week: David...

By Brigid Schulte  | September 24, 2010; 7:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
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Story pick: Demon sheep and floating heads

I was fully prepared to write off the story in Wednesday's Style section about Fred Davis as yet another bloviating, inside-baseball piece about preening and boring political campaign consultants. But very quickly, Philip Rucker, who spent three days with Davis...

By Brigid Schulte  | September 23, 2010; 7:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
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Handicapped parking wars

Martena Clinton, the woman who lost her Lexus after the Secret Service towed it from a handicapped parking space during an appearance by President Obama at the Washington Convention Center, has caught a lot of flak in recent days for...

By Marc Fisher  | September 22, 2010; 10:07 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (11)
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Story pick: The boxer and the blonde

OK. I've got to write about boxing this week (see Monday's story pick.) So I keep looking to others for inspiration. Jabs. Hooks. Upper cuts. It's still all foreign to me. But stories about people are universal. It was the...

By Brigid Schulte  | September 22, 2010; 7:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
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Story pick: The end of English

After one particularly frustrating late-night experience with a literal-minded copy editor who didn't like my use of the idiom "hard by" to describe the location of a tiny, cramped little house (i.e. the tidy home "hard by a sound wall...

By Brigid Schulte  | September 21, 2010; 7:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
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Story pick: The sweet science of boxing

I don't get boxing. Or more to the point, why some writers become obsessed with it. Think Hemingway. George Plimpton. Joyce Carol Oates, even. The "sweet science," they call it. Where they see skill, strategy, choreography, elegance in two fighters...

By Brigid Schulte  | September 20, 2010; 7:00 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
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