The news out of Moore, Okla., couldn’t help remind us of the historic tornado in Joplin, Mo., and of one narrative in particular: Luke Dittrich’s National Magazine Award-winning Esquire piece on how a group of strangers survived by crowding into a convenience store cooler. The scenario, which happened two years ago yesterday, was echoed this [...]
When Amy Wallace profiled then-Variety editor Peter Bart for Los Angeles magazine, she took on issues of access, personality, misdirection, industry politics, journalism and retaliation. To write about a guy who’s been called “the most hated man in Hollywood” demands guts and patience. To pull it off as she did requires a certain tact and [...]
by Paige Williams
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May 21, 2013
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also posted in annotation tuesday!
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tags: Amy Wallace, Anita M. Busch, Elon Green, Eric Mercado, George Christy, GQ, J.R. Moehringer, Kit Rachlis, longform.org, Los Angeles magazine, Peter Bart, The Awl, The Hollywood Reporter, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Variety, Wired
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Welcome to the Notable Narrative live chat with the Washington Post‘s Dan Zak, author of “The Prophets of Oak Ridge,” the saga of three peace activists, including an 82-year-old nun, who breached security at the U.S. nuclear-weapons facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Also joining us is David Beard, the Post‘s director of digital content. We [...]
Our latest Notable Narrative: “The Prophets of Oak Ridge,” Dan Zak’s 9,448-word Washington Post project—and, as of this morning, e-book—about a house painter, a drifter and an 82-year-old nun who breached the perimeter at the Y-12 National Security Complex, which produces nuclear weapons in East Tennessee. We’ll be hosting a live chat with Zak about [...]
A top reporter and storyteller, Eli Saslow was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing two weeks ago for his story about a struggling swimming pool salesman.Today, in the latest installment of our Annotation Tuesday! series, we’re looking at another of Saslow’s pieces, one that he wrote for ESPN The Magazine, about Rumeal Robinson, a former University [...]
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Don Van Natta Jr. |
April 23, 2013
I still remember where I was—sitting in a dive bar in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., trying to tune out the noise from the beach bums and a jukebox blaring Madonna and the Bangles—when I read these words: Just before noon the horse was led haltingly into a van next to the stallion barn, and there a [...]
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Joe Keohane |
April 9, 2013
My estimable friend and former colleague Paul Kix recently wrote a column in this space on John Jeremiah Sullivan. In it he cited an essay Sullivan wrote about the art of writing: A fundamental law of storytelling is: withhold information. As the writer Paul Metcalf put it, “The only real work in creative endeavor is [...]
Awards season continues with the announcement of the American Society of Magazine Editors’ finalists for the National Magazine Award. The organization this week honored 62 publications in 23 categories, with winners to be revealed in New York on May 2. The National Magazine Awards have long honored the best of narrative journalism, especially in the Feature [...]
by Paige Williams
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Apr 4, 2013
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also posted in narrative news
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tags: American Society of Magazine Editors, ASME, Brian Mockenhaupt, Byliner, Charles Graeber, Dexter Filkins, GQ, Jay Kirk, Karen Russell, Mac McClelland, Mother Jones, National Magazine Awards, Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly, The New Yorker, Wired
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Jason Schwartz |
March 26, 2013
I think it’s fair to say that most of America was shocked when news of Tiger Woods’ sex scandal broke in late 2009. I’m also pretty sure that anyone who had read “The Man. Amen.” by Charles P. Pierce, in Esquire, from 12 years earlier, just nodded and said, “Yup, sounds about right.” Pierce’s piece [...]
In a recent edition of Storyboard’s Annotation Tuesday!, GQ’s Amy Wallace talked about the crossover between narrative and profile writing. “While I get that the two (genres) are distinct, I actually don’t think of them as being that different,” she told Storyboard. “Not to get too groovy, but it’s all about story and the drivers [...]
by Paige Williams
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Mar 22, 2013
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also posted in narrative news
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tags: 5280 Magazine, Amy Wallace, Ariel Sabar, Atlanta Magazine, GQ, Jason Fagone, Jason Sheeler, Jeannette Cooperman, Justin Heckert, Mimi Swartz, Pamela Colloff, Philadelphia magazine, Robert Sanchez, St. Louis magazine, Steve Volk, Texas Monthly, Tony Rehagen, Washingtonian Magazine
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