Narrative Journalism, Part One

Earlier this month, some of the country's best writers met in Cambridge, Massachusetts for the 2004 Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism to share their best work.

Hank Stuever gives a hilarious inside look at what goes on behind the scenes of the hit TV show, "Trading Spaces." Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh offers a sobering account of the Bush administration and Abu Ghraib. And Loung Ung, a survivor of the Cambodian killing fields and author of a bestselling memoir, remembers her first 4th of July celebration in the United States.

Hear part one of a series of readings from those writers — delivered in the authors' own voices.

Guests:

Hank Stuever, author, "Off-Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere"

Ann Hull, enterprise reporter, The Washington Post

Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and writer for The New Yorker Magazine. His latest book is "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib".

Bruce DeSilva, director of news-features, The Associated Press

Tomas Alex Tizon, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and national correspondent for The Los Angeles Times

Marie Arana, editor-in-chief of "Book World", The Washington Post and author of "American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood".

Loung Ung, author, "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers."