September 25, 2012 – 8:26 am
For the past few years, GQ correspondent Jeanne Marie Laskas has explored the myriad behind-the-scenes lives that help make our first-world reality what it is today. To borrow a couple of sentences from the current political discourse, “You didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Someone mined the coal so that, when you flip the [...]
Every spring, the City and Regional Magazine Association names a Writer of the Year, and twice the organization has handed Justin Heckert that honor. Heckert won recently for Atlanta magazine stories about an AIDS survivor, tornado victims, an underground newspaper, struggling standup comics and zombies. The winners aren’t always what the industry likes to call [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative news
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Also tagged 5280 Magazine, 60 Minutes, Amanda Heckert, And the Band Played On, Atlanta Magazine, City & Regional Magazine Association, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, CRMA, Daimon Eklund, Decatur Book Festival, Diana Raschke, ESPN The Magazine, Greg Mellen, Indianapolis Magazine, Joyce Carol Oates, Justin Heckert, Lee Walburn, Luke Dittrich, Mike Wallace, Mimi Swartz, Missouri Sch, My Own Country, Pat Heckert, PBS, Philadelphia magazine, Rebecca Burns, Robert Huber, Robert Sanchez, Ryan Cameron, Seth Wickersham, Steve Fennessy, Steve Walentik, Texas Monthly, The Bird, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Thomas Lake, Tony Rehagen, William Faulkner, Wright Thompson
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From the moment David Grann’s “The Yankee Comandante” appeared in the New Yorker last week, readers have been talking about it, hailing the tale of political intrigue, passion and heartbreak as unforgettable, as a masterpiece. Grann, of course, is known for memorable long-form narratives such as “Trial by Fire” and “A Murder Foretold” and for [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Aran Shetterly, David Grann, David Remnick, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, Michael Kelly, Michael Lewis, Michael Sallah, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Susan Lee, The Big Short, The Devil Problem, The New Yorker, The Toledo Blade
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If you’ve ever spent some time nosing around Storyboard you know we archive everything from interactive narratives to original essays on craft, in which masters such as Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Rick Meyer and Walt Harrington offer tips on developing characters, finding stories, writing scenes and more. Some of the 26 pieces feel fresh even a decade later. Here’s [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Bruce DeSilva, Jack Hart, Michael Pollan, Peter Singer, Rebecca Allen, Rick Meyer, Storycraft, The New York Times Magazine, The Orange County Register, Walt Harrington
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November 1, 2011 – 10:44 am
A few years ago, a bunch of us were sitting around the front porch of this crumpled old resort in the Catskills, knocking back drinks and talking shop. I can’t remember how it began, but when the sun went down we developed a game: Tell a story in a minute. It started off cool enough, [...]
How true does a memoir have to be? That question has been the basis of an ongoing debate kicked off by the revelation, five years ago, that much of James Frey’s bestselling “A Million Little Pieces” was made up. Unfortunately, it has never been adequately answered. Commentators have tended to gravitate to oversimplifications: one side asserting [...]
