Writer's Almanac

From Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac yesterday (thanks, Candace): On this day in 2001 terrorists flew two planes into Twin Towers in New York City, causing both towers to collapse. In the weeks following the attacks, many writers and other artists wondered how to respond to what had happened.



One of the first groups of writers to take action were the reporters for The New York Times, who began writing portraits of the victims in a special section of the paper called "Portraits of Grief." The journalists involved decided that they would try to write portraits of

every victim of the attack whose family they could reach. And they decided that the stories would focus on how the victims…