Sunday’s Washington Post carried the kind of story that can leave you limp for days. Rare anymore is the narrative that has such a visceral effect, but Eli Saslow’s piece about Jackie and Mark Barden, whose 7-year-old son Daniel died in the Newtown shootings, is the kind you wake up thinking about, and cannot shake. [...]
October 31, 2012 – 8:41 am
In Part 2 of our recap of Romania’s “Power of Storytelling” conference on narrative journalism, Pulitzer winner Jacqui Banaszynski wrote a short essay about why she and eight other North American storytellers traveled to Bucharest to talk stories before a sold-out audience of journalists. She talked about the future of storytelling. And Evan Ratliff, founder of The [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative news
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Also tagged Alex Tizon, Chris Jones, Cristian Lupsa, Decat o Revista, Esquire, Evan Ratliff, Harper's, Jacqui Banaszynski, Mike Sager, Pat Walters, Paul Tough, Radiolab, Starlee Kine, The Atavist, The Thing, This American Life, Walt Harrington
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September 20, 2012 – 8:35 am
Every narrative journalist can point to a story or a book, or two, that changed their lives, and that made them want to tell true stories. What story does it for you? Where was your love born? When we asked about influential writing via Twitter, answers came in a flurry. Wright Thompson said North Toward Home, [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Aaron Latham, Adam Davidson, Alex Tizon, Alice Steinbach, Alison Smith, Andrew Pantazi, Anne Lamott, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara Myerhoff, Buzz Bissinger, Chris Jones, Clive Thompson, Cornelius Ryan Award, Darcy Frey, David Foster Wallace, David Von Drehle, Deborah Baker, Des Moines Register, Diane Shipley, Dinty Moore, Edwidge Danticat, ESPN, Gay Talese, Gene Weingarten, George Orwell, Harold Ross, Harper's, Ian Frazier, Jacqui Banaszynski, James Baldwin, Jane Kramer, Janet Malcolm, Jeanne Marie Laskas, Jeff Sharlet, Jimmy Breslin, Jo Ann Beard, Joan Didion, Joe Sacco, John Carey, John Hersey, John McPhee, Jordan Conn, Joseph Mitchell, Julia Sommerfeld, Karen K. Ho, Katherine Boo, Kelley Benham, Ken Fuson, KillingtheBuddha.com, Larry L. King, Lê Thi Diem Thúy, Lillian Ross, Louisa May Alcott, Luke Dittrich, Madeleine Blais, Mara Grunbaum, Mark Bowden, Mark Kramer, Mary McCarthy, Melissa Faye Green, Michael Herr, Michael Lesy, Mother Jones, New York Herald Tribune, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Nick Paumgarten, Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, Nora Ephron, Norman Mailer, Overseas Press Club Award, Philip Weiss, Pulitzer Prize, Rachel Signer, Randy Shilts, Rebecca Skloot, Rob Boynton, Rolling Stone, Ron Rosenbaum, Rosemary Mahoney, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Sebastian Junger, Susan Orlean, Tampa Bay Times, Ted Conover, The Atlantic, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, The New Yorker, The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, Tim O'Brien, Timothy B. Tyson, Tobias Wolff, Tom Junod, Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Vanity Fair, Walt Whitman, Wendy Call, Will Hobson, William Browning, Willie Morris, Wired, Wright Thompson, Zoe Heller
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In “Grace in Broken Arrow,” our newest Notable Narrative, Brooklyn-based freelancer Kiera Feldman unfurls an investigative story about child sex abuse and institutional accountability at a private evangelical Christian school outside of Tulsa, Okla. The piece ran last week in This Land, a two-year-old web/print magazine in Tulsa that’s drawing acclaim for its long-form stories and [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Alisa Solomon, Beyond the Pale, Brian Lehrer, Columbia School of Journalism, DART Center for Journalism & Trauma, Dave Cullen, David Sedaris, Esther Kaplan, GQ, Harper's, Investigative Reporters & Editors, Ira Glass, Janet Malcolm, Jeff Sharlet, JoAnn Wypijewski, Josh Kline, Kathy Dobie, Kiera Feldman, Killing the Buddha, Kristen Lombardi, Legal Affairs, Michael Mason, n+1, New York magazine, NPR, PBS, Robert Kolker, The Center for Public Integrity, The Nation, The New York Times, the Tulsa World, Third Coast International Audio Festival, This American Life, This Land, Truman Capote, WNYC
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It’s been a little over a year since The Atavist debuted as a groundbreaking digital platform for long-form multimedia storytelling. Narrative journalists had been bemoaning the shrinking storytelling acreage, so this app-based venue was met with substantial interest. “E-books are more than a publishing platform,” as New York magazine referred to the genre, “they’re a whole new literary form.” [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative speaker series
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Also tagged Adam Tanner, Al Gore, Alissa Quart, Alysia Abbott, Anna Griffin, Brendan Koerner, Byliner, Carlotta Gall, Cris Beam, David Dobbs, David Grann, David Skok, David Wolman, digital National Magazine Award, Dina Kraft, Evan Ratliff, Gay Talese, Harper's, Hiroshima, James Geary, Jefferson Rabb, Jonathan Blakley, Jonathan Franzen, Joshua Hammer, longform.org, longreads, Matthew Power, Michael Lewis, National Magazine Award, Newsweek, Nicholas Thompson, Outside, Paige Williams, Raquel Rutledge, The Atavist, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, Tyler Bridges, Wired
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December 2, 2011 – 2:08 pm
Continuing a Nieman Foundation narrative writing speaker series set up by Paige Williams, journalism legend Gay Talese appeared on campus two weeks ago in conversation with Esquire’s Chris Jones. The Harvard Writers at Work lecture series co-sponsored the standing-room-only event, where Talese and Jones were introduced by current Nieman fellow Adam Tanner of Reuters. What follows is [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative speaker series
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Also tagged Adam Tanner, Chris Jones, David Halberstam, David Remnick, Esquire, Gay Talese, Harper's, Harvard Review, Harvard Writers at Work, Nan Talese, Nancy Franklin, National Magazine Awards, Paige Williams, Reuters, Roger Ebert, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, The New Yorker, William Styron
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November 15, 2011 – 4:00 pm
Magic and writing tricks differ in at least one happy way: A writing trick’s delights only increase once you see through the sleight of hand. In “Inhaling the Spore,” writing about a visit to a very peculiar museum, Lawrence Weschler hides his prestidigitation in plain sight, like every good magician. His 1994 Harper’s showpiece makes the [...]
October 18, 2011 – 2:48 pm
For seven days and seven nights in mid-March of 1995, David Foster Wallace took a cruise. He did not have a very good time. The results of the voyage are recorded in “Shipping Out,” an extended essay, framed playfully as an ad for a cruise ship, that ran in Harper’s in early 1996. (It was [...]
August 19, 2011 – 10:31 am
Our latest Editors’ Roundtable looks at Cynthia Gorney’s story “Too Young To Wed,” from the June issue of National Geographic. In addition to her work for National Geographic, Gorney is a professor at the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, she worked [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in editors' roundtable, words
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Also tagged Cynthia Gorney, Harper's, National Geographic, New Yorker, O: The Oprah Magazine, Sports Illustrated, The American Journalism Review, The Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post
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We spoke last week with Eliza Griswold, winner of the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for “The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam.” In addition to winning the Lukas Prize, which is co-administered by Columbia University and the Nieman Foundation, Griswold has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The [...]