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Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. After a Florida school shooting left 17 people dead, Post reporters Kevin Sullivan, Samatha Schmidt, Mark Berman, Kyle Swenson, William Wan and others worked around the clock to gather as much detail as possible about what had happened. They sent David Fahrenthold, who'd been assigned to write a reconstruction of the rampage, interviews with survivors and the shooter's friends and neighbors, haunting text messages from inside the school, and transcripts from news conferences. Fahrenthold is best known to readers for his relentless reporting on Donald Trump's philanthropy, which won him a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2017. But he is also a master at anchoring gripping reconstructions — often referred to in newsrooms as ticktocks — of everything from political showdowns to natural disasters. "It's all dependent on the material," said Fah...