Our November Editors’ Roundtable looked at “Hecho en América,” a story by GQ correspondent Jeanne Marie Laskas about migrant blueberry pickers in Maine. Laskas’ work has been featured previously on this site, and has won her a slot in the “Best American Sportswriting” anthologies four times. She has also written five books and been a contributing editor at [...]
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Jeanne Marie Laskas on hidden lives, the search for the perfect protagonist, and the joys of long-form
November 18, 2011 – 4:13 pm
November Editors’ Roundtable: GQ’s close-up on the people who bring you breakfast (and lunch, and dinner)
November 17, 2011 – 2:21 pm
Our November Roundtable looks at “Hecho en América,” by Jeanne Marie Laskas. Laskas immerses herself in the world of migrant workers picking blueberries in Washington County, Maine, and illuminates the distance between the worlds of those who pick the berries and those who eat them. The story ran in the September issue of GQ magazine.
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Jessica Pressler on New York, “millennium girls” and the love story that wasn’t
October 28, 2011 – 12:52 pm
This week’s Editors’ Roundtable dives into Jessica Pressler’s story “A Holly Golightly for the Stripper-Embezzlement Age,” from New York magazine. A contributing editor and blogger for New York since 2007, Pressler has profiled a wide range of subjects of late, from movie star Channing Tatum (for GQ) to Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Prior to joining New York, she [...]
What we’re reading: surrendering revenge, little girl lost, and a town that disappeared
October 4, 2011 – 8:07 pm
Required Storyboard reading has been light on humor of late, but there’s some wryness mixed in with the sorrow in Justin Heckert’s look at what nature did to Vaughn, Ga. And a vignette about an “atomic banana” adds range to an tale from 9/11. The rest of today’s choices tackle equally hefty subjects: a survivor forgiving [...]
Dudley Clendinen on building stories from life and choosing grace in death: “I don’t quibble with fate”
September 30, 2011 – 4:57 pm
Our latest Editors’ Roundtable examines Dudley Clendinen’s “The Good Short Life,” a career journalist’s startling response to being diagnosed with ALS. In addition to two books (“A Place Called Canterbury” and “Out for Good: The Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America”), Clendinen has written for GQ, the St. Petersburg Times, the Atlanta [...]
Michael Mooney on Jerry Joseph: “What person has not thought about what it would be like to relive their youth?”
August 5, 2011 – 10:46 am
Our latest Editors’ Roundtable looks at Michael Mooney’s story “Blindsided: The Jerry Joseph Basketball Scandal,” from the July issue of GQ. Mooney, a staff writer for D Magazine, previously worked for the Village Voice south Florida weekly New Times and has contributed to Outside magazine and Portfolio. His work has been recognized by the Society of Professional Journalists [...]
August Editors’ Roundtable No. 1: GQ ponders truth, lies and mystery
August 4, 2011 – 9:38 am
Our first Roundtable of August considers “Blindsided: The Jerry Joseph Basketball Scandal,” by Michael Mooney. The story spotlights a high school basketball player who stirred up questions about truth and identity that the town of Odessa, Texas, is still struggling to answer. “Blindsided” ran in the July issue of GQ and was edited by Michael Benoist.
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Michael Paterniti on the legacy of Gitmo: “I didn’t want to turn it into some neat parable”
April 7, 2011 – 11:21 am
We recently posted our latest Editors’ Roundtable, which dissected “The Boy from Gitmo” by Mike Paterniti. A National Magazine Award winner (and a seven-time finalist), Paterniti writes for GQ and lives in Maine, where he and his wife, Sara Corbett, co-founded The Telling Room, a nonprofit writing program for kids. He is also the author [...]
April Editors’ Roundtable: GQ dives into the personal consequences of war
April 6, 2011 – 10:00 am
Stop shopping for your Easter bonnet, and put down those 1040s – it’s time for a new Editors’ Roundtable! This session, our editors are looking at Michael Paterniti’s “The Boy from Gitmo,” which ran in the February issue of GQ. Paterniti’s piece explores the relationship between Mohammed Jawad, a boy who was sent to Guantánamo Bay [...]
Jeanne Marie Laskas on voice, point of view and accountability to her subjects: “this is the human story of a guy suffering”
February 25, 2011 – 3:12 pm
In our latest Notable Narrative, “The People V. Football,” GQ correspondent Jeanne Marie Laskas looks at a former football player who has already lost much of his life and is in the process of losing his mind. Laskas has won a slot in the “Best American Sportswriting” anthologies four times, written five books and been [...]
