He said journalists should use four literary devices in their work — “to make the reader feel present in the scene described and even inside the skin of a particular character.” They are: 1) constructing scenes; 2) dialogue — lots of it; 3) carefully noting social status details, “everything from dress and furniture to the infinite status clues of speech”; and 4) point of view, “in the Henry Jamesian sense of putting the reader inside the mind of someone other than the writer.”