This Week: "How to Report on Family Secrets" with NYT Contributor Susan Saulny

Join us for a special conversation with the veteran journalist behind this sweeping new "Great Read."

Happy June, writers! If you’re in NYC, there’s still time to join our in-person street photography workshop that starts this evening, and if you’re looking for memoir inspiration this month, “30 Days, 30 Essay Prompts” also starts today. Plus, we have a lot more coming up this week!

One of the most impressive feature articles I’ve read this year is “A Family Secret No More,” an epic story by Susan Saulny published in The New York Times a few weeks ago. Susan explores the dual life stories of her grandfather, George, who lived in the Jim Crow South as a Black man, and his lighter-skinned brother, Edward, who moved to Chicago and “crossed the line” to live as White. It’s a remarkable reported essay that I can only imagine took an immense amount of researching, reporting, and navigating complicated family dynamics to put together.

This Thursday, June 4 at 1pm ET, Susan Saulny, who has more than 25 years of experience in journalism — including as a national correspondent for The New York Ti…