Earlier this month, some of the country’s best writers met in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the 2003 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism to share their best work. Tonight, we bring you Part Two of a series of readings from those writers–delivered in the authors’ own voices–as part of an annual On Point tradition.

Guests:

Jay Allison, independent broadcast journalist, four-time Peabody Award winner and executive director of Atlantic Public Media

Anne Hull, enterprise reporter, The Washington Post

Mark Kramer, director of the Neiman Program on Narrative Journalism and writer-in-residence at the Neiman Foundation at Harvard University

Adam Hochschild, author and co-founder of Mother Jones Magazine

Samantha Power, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide”

Arlie Hochschild, author, “The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home”

Patricia Williams, professor of law, Columbia University and columnist, The Nation Magazine