The best in narrative, 2012: Storyboard’s top picks in audio, magazines, newspapers and online

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The best in narrative, 2012: Storyboard’s top picks in audio, magazines, newspapers and online

Welcome to Storyboard’s first annual year-end roundup of top storytelling: 34 of our favorite pieces in audio, magazines, newspapers and online, with three of the categories guest curated by Mark Armstrong (online), Julia Barton and Julie Shapiro (audio), and Ben Montgomery, Michael Kruse and Thomas Lake (newspapers). This was a strong year for storytelling, and it was hard to choose. You’ll find pieces that [...]

by Paige Williams | Dec 20, 2012 | also posted in #longreads, audio narratives, narrative news, what we're reading etc. | tags: Adrian Chen, Al Letson, Anne Hull, Barry Bearak, BBC, Ben Austen, BuzzFeed, Christopher Goffard, Dan Barry, Deadspin, Eli Saslow, Gawker, Gizmodo, Grantland, Guernica, Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, Julia Barton, Julie Shapiro, Katherine Goldstein, Kelley Benham French, Kelly McEvers, longreads, Lu Olkowski, Mark Armstrong, Mark Collette, Matt Kallman, Matter, McKay Coppins, Michael Kruse, Mike Albo, Mike Daisey, Narratively, NPR, Paige Williams, Pat Walters, Pejk Malinovski, Radiolab, Randa Jarrar, Rob Schmitz, Rob Trucks, Robert Krulwich, SB Nation, Slate, Splitsider, Sports Illustrated, Tampa Bay Times, The Awl, The Billfold, The Classical, the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, The Hairpin, the Los Angeles Times, The New Inquiry, The New York Times, The Oregonian, The Rumpus, The Verge, The Washington Post, This American Life, Thomas Lake, Tom Hallman Jr. | comments (3)

What we’re reading: Stories on teenage gumption, secret clinical trials, wrongful imprisonment and the convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald

We love December for its inevitable bouquet of great year-end stories. Lots of good stuff out there right now, including these, four of our recent favorites: Anne Hull’s poverty piece, “In Rust Belt, a teenager’s climb from poverty,” which documents Pennsylvania teenager Tabi Rouzzo’s struggle to better herself. Hull, who with Dana Priest won the [...]

by Paige Williams | Dec 13, 2012 | also posted in what we're reading etc. | tags: Anne Hull, Dana Priest, Gene Weingarten, Pam Colloff, Pulitzer Prize, Raffi Khatchadourian, Texas Monthly, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Washington Post Magazine | comments (0)

What we’re reading: one-eyed bullfighters, Boo, drug wars, breasts, death in the Yukon and swimming-pool salesmen

There’s a lot of great work out there right now, people! Here are some of the stories and storytellers who’ve caught our attention lately — and why. Highlights: a Mexican cemetery for drug lords, a near-death experience in a bullring, a guy trying to sell swimming pools in a down-economy, and reporting the history of breasts. [...]

by Paige Williams | Oct 11, 2012 | also posted in #longreads, what we're reading etc. | tags: Carl Zimmer, Eli Saslow, Emily Brennan, Eva Holland, Florence Williams, Fresh Air, GQ, Guernica, Karen Russell, Katherine Boo, MacArthur Foundation, Michelle Nijhuis, Natalia Almada, Outside, Pulitzer Prize, Stephen Holden, Terry Gross, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Open Notebook, The Washington Post, Up Here | comments (0)

Father’s Day, by Buzz Bissinger: an excerpt

Narrative legend Buzz Bissinger, whose books include A Prayer for the City and the No. 1 New York Times best-seller Friday Night Lights, visited his alma mater the Nieman Foundation last week for a long talk with curator Ann Marie Lipinski and the year’s outgoing class. Because this is Bissinger, the conversation was at times salty. It was at [...]

by Paige Williams | May 24, 2012 | also posted in what we're reading etc. | tags: Ann Marie Lipinski, Bill Marimow, Buzz Bissinger, Friday Night Lights, Jonathan Neumann, Mike Leary, Nieman Foundation, Paul Moore, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Vernon Loeb, Zach Bissinger | comments (0) Авиабилеты на все направления заказывай тут низкие цены.

Work we love: a multimedia look at secret slavery, a portrait of fantasy baseball’s founder and dueling Robert Caro profiles

Our bookmarks have been busy lately what with all the good stuff to read and watch and hear. Some of our recent favorites hail from CNN.com, Grantland, the New York Times magazine and Esquire. In case you missed them, here are four pieces worth your time: Slavery 360° For the CNN.com multimedia narrative “Slavery’s Last [...]

by Paige Williams | May 4, 2012 | also posted in what we're reading etc. | tags: Bess Kalb, Charles McGrath, Chris Jones, CNN.com, Edythe McNamee, Esquire, Gay Talese, Grantland, John D. Sutter, Justin Ellis, Robert Caro, The 6th Floor, The New York Times Magazine, W.C. Heinz | comments (1)

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