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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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 [...]
GQ and The New Yorker: two takes on brain damage from football
October 26, 2009 – 4:35 pm
For a primer on different approaches to storytelling, take a look at two recent narratives on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). In GQ, Jeanne Marie Laskas’ “Game Brain” follows a pathologist who discovers CTE through an autopsy on a football player. The New Yorker’s Malcolm Gladwell also addresses the current science of football head trauma in [...]
