Mark Kramer's Breakable Rules of Lit Journalism

1. Literary journalists immerse themselves in subjects' worlds and in 
background research. 

2. Literary journalists work out implicit covenants about accuracy and 
candor with readers and with sources. 

3. Literary journalists write mostly about routine events. 

4. Literay journalists write in "intimate voice," informal, frank, human, 
and ironic. 

5. Style counts and tends to be plain and spare. 

6. Literary journalists write from a disengaged and mobile stance, from 
which they tell stories and also turn and address readers directly. 

7. Structure counts, mixing primary narrative with tales and digressions 
to amplify and reframe events. 

8. Literary journalists develop meaning by building upon the readers' 
sequential reactions.