Tag: Tracy Kidder

  • Nation & World

    Doing medical rounds on streets, alleys of Boston

    Tracy Kidder’s “Rough Sleepers” follows Jim O’Connell, who provides Boston’s homeless with health care.

    16 minutes
    Jim O'Connell outside with a patient.
  • Nation & World

    Happily ever after, sometimes

    A Scholars at Risk panel investigates the universal uses of narrative and the hard-wired human need for storytelling.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Write right, right?

    The Harvard Writers at Work lecture series, in its third year, offers public conversations on craft, collaboration, and even challenges to writing in the digital age.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A master at his craft

    Author and Harvard graduate Tracy Kidder is the first writer in residence at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. For the fall semester, he is sharing his insights about the art of writing with the Harvard community.

    5 minutes