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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Posted in #longreads, annotation tuesday!
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Also tagged Amy Wallace, Anita M. Busch, Elon Green, Eric Mercado, George Christy, 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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Storytelling prize season wound down last night with the presentation of the National Magazine Awards, the Pulitzers of the American magazine world. Texas Monthly’s Pamela Colloff took the “Ellie” for her two-part narrative series on a man wrongly imprisoned for 25 years in the violent death of his wife. “The Innocent Man” topped stories from Byliner, GQ, Mother [...]
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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Posted in #longreads, narrative news
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Also tagged American Society of Magazine Editors, ASME, Brian Mockenhaupt, Byliner, Charles Graeber, Dexter Filkins, Jay Kirk, Karen Russell, Mac McClelland, Mother Jones, National Magazine Awards, Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly, The New Yorker, Wired
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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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Also tagged 5280 Magazine, Amy Wallace, Ariel Sabar, Atlanta Magazine, 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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By now you’ve probably heard the story: In October 2011, a suicidal man named Terry Thompson uncaged dozens of wild animals that he kept on his farm in Zanesville, Ohio, and then shot himself. The sheriff’s department spent a tense night tracking down the animals, killing all that they could find. Of all the inevitable [...]
February 12, 2013 – 9:24 am
Last summer, John Jeremiah Sullivan wrote an essay about Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom!, and amid his deft and borderline genius thoughts on the novel – “It…dramatize[s] historical consciousness itself, not just human lives but the forest of time in which the whole notion of human life must find its only meaning” – Sullivan said something telling [...]
February 5, 2013 – 9:42 am
Reading Amy Wallace’s profiles is like sitting around your favorite bar with your favorite super-witty friend and talking about people over cocktails: You come for the companionship and vibe, you stay for the juicy details. It’s hard enough to profile the famous because public figures don’t reeeeeeally want to be known anymore, but Wallace, a GQ [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in annotation tuesday!
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Also tagged Alex Kotlowitz, Amy Wallace, Brendan Vaughan, Conan O'Brien, David Duchovny, Esquire, Garry Shandling, Irving Wallace, Jennifer Egan, Jesse Katz, Judd Apatow, Kevin Nealon, Kit Rachlis, Larry McMurtry, Los Angeles magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Mark Horowitz, Mark Robinson, Mary Melton, Matt Damon, Matt Klam, Matt Tyrnauer, Michael Caruso, Peter Bart, Peter Berg, Robert Downey Jr., Ron Suskind, Sarah Silverman, Smithsonian magazine, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Variety, Wired
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January 8, 2013 – 10:41 am
Storytelling in 2013 — how will it look? Sound? How will it make us feel? Who’s doing it well, and how did they do it, and what can the rest of us learn from that work? We’re looking forward to finding out. Storyboard spent 2012 expanding our content and trying out new ways to engage readers. [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Amy Wallace, Ann Friedman, Annotation Tuesday!, Ben Ehrenreich, Ben Yagoda, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, Dan Barry, David Grann, Eli Sanders, Esquire, Grantland, Jennifer B. McDonald, Joan Didion, Julia Barton, Junot Diaz, just one question, Luke Dittrich, Mary Roach, Michael Kruse, National Magazine Award, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nora Ephron, Pam Colloff, Paul Harding, Peter Trachtenberg, Roy Blount Jr., Sean Patrick Farrell, Tampa Bay Times, Wesley Morris, Work the Problem
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December 7, 2012 – 9:50 am
In yesterday’s post, guest curator Michael Fitzgerald wrote about the storytelling power behind “The Wronged Man,” a 2004 GQ piece by National Magazine Award winner Andrew Corsello. Fitzgerald, a Massachusetts-based business and technology writer and former Nieman Fellow, caught up with Corsello by phone recently, to talk about the story. Here’s part of their conversation, edited [...]
November 6, 2012 – 10:06 am
Why hasn’t anybody Hunter S. Thompsonized this election? Or have they, and we missed it? Esquire’s Charlie Pierce approacheth – In the interest of keeping you abreast of news that hasn’t happened yet, I would like to introduce you to what the intellectuals in the employ of the Glenn Beck Empire will be saying on [...]
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Also tagged Byliner, Charlie Pierce, Columbia Journalism Review, Esquire, Hunter S. Thompson, Jill Lepore, Joe McGinniss, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Roger Ailes, Rolling Stone, Saul Bellow, The Chicago Tribune, the New York Mirror, Vanity Fair
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