Katherine Boo urges fellow storytellers to “be serious about being accurate, not trying to make people care.”
Katherine Boo urges fellow storytellers to “be serious about being accurate, not trying to make people care.” Photo by Alexis RosebrockKatherine Boo encourages fellow journalists to expect more from their readers at the Mayborn Literary Conference’s Southwest Soiree Dinner on July 21, 2017. Photo by Alexis Rosebrock“The public is more hungry than given credit for,” Boo said. Photo by Alexis RosebrockModerator Chris Vognar and Boo answer an audience member’s question about the current political climate. Photo by Alexis RosebrockAn audience member questions Boo about her journey to the slum of Annawadi for her book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity.” Photo by Alexis RosebrockKatherine Boo shares her 15 injunctions for writing narrative nonfiction. Photo by Alexis Rosebrock