This Week: The Fine Art of Story Hunting
Join New York Times features writer Steven Kurutz and Creative Nonfiction's Lee Gutkind for a live chat about how to find the best stories—and how to figure out what's an article and what's a book.
Happy Monday, writers! Thanks to everyone who joined us for our first Open Book live conversation of 2026 last week: How to Juggle Multiple Creative Projects at Once, with Caroline Rothstein. (If you missed that one, check out the recording here.)
Quick reminder that our 8am ET Writers’ Room is happening every day this week! If you’re looking for a little extra accountability in sticking to those new year’s writing goals, be sure to join us any/every morning at 8 ET this week (and Wednesday at 8am PT).
We’re also thrilled to have the great Lee Gutkind back to lead a new Open Book live conversation this Friday. Lee will be chatting with Steven Kurutz, a features reporter for The New York Times, as well as the author of two books and many great articles, including an all-time great CNF classic we recently shared on Narratively about the music of Donnie and Joe Emerson, which was adapted into the feature film Dreamin’ Wild, starring Casey Affleck and Walton Goggins.
Steven and Lee will disc…