<P><B>From respected journalist professor and founder of the Writer's Symposium by the Sea an audiobook that demystifies the art and science of interviewing in the vein of <I>On Writing Well</I> or <I>How to Read Literature like a Professor</I>.</b></P><P>Interviewing is the single most important way journalists (and doctors lawyers social workers teachers human resources staff and really all of us) get information. Yet to many the perfect interview feels more like luck than skill — a rare confluence of rapport topic and timing. But the thing is great interviews <I>aren’t</I> the result of serendipity and intuition but rather the result of careful planning and good journalistic habits. And Dean Nelson is here to show you how to nail the perfect interview every time.</P><P>Drawing on 40 years of award-winning journalism and his experience as the founder and host of the Writer’s Symposium by the Sea Nelson walks listeners through each step of the journey from deciding whom to interview and structuring questions to the nitty-gritty of how to use a recording device and effective note-taking strategies to the ethical dilemmas of interviewing people you love (and loathe). He also includes case studies of famous interviews to show listeners how these principles play out in real time.</P><P>Chock-full of comprehensive time-tested gold-standard advice <I>Talk to Me</i> is an indispensable guide to the subtle art of the interview guaranteed to afford listeners with the skills and confidence they need the next time they say “talk to me.”</P>
