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, GQ, Grantland, Jennifer B. McDonald, 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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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, 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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September 4, 2012 – 8:04 am
In 1977, Joan Didion told The Paris Review that she always kept in mind one line of poetry, from T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”: “at the still point of the turning world.” I don’t know if Didion had the still point in mind when she wrote “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream,” her classic account of adultery [...]
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, Ernest Hemingway, Gay Talese, 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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November 29, 2011 – 11:12 am
There are two stories from the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, that to me remain better than all the others. R.W. Apple wrote a news analysis that ran on the front of the New York Times on Sept. 12. Hank Stuever wrote an essay that ran on the front of the Style section of the [...]
By Michael Kruse
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Posted in why's this so good?
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Also tagged American Society of News Editors, Ben Montgomery, Chris Jones, Hank Stuever, Henry Allen, Michael Kruse, R.W. Apple, St. Petersburg Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wright Thompson
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February 17, 2011 – 10:36 am
What is it that we really want from memoir? The kerfuffle this week over “A Widow’s Story,” a narrative from Joyce Carol Oates about the loss of her husband and their many years together brings this question front and center again. Oates was married to Raymond J. Smith for nearly five decades; in addition to [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Adam Hochschild, Aura Estrada, CBS, Francisco Goldman, Iris Murdoch, James Frey, Janet Maslin, John Bayley, Joyce Carol Oates, Kelly Oliver, Margaret Seltzer, Mary Karr, Misha Defonseca, Nikki Stern, Roy Peter Clark, Salon.com, The Good Wife, The New York Times, The New Yorker
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August 20, 2010 – 2:23 pm
Washington Post reporter Hank Stuever writes in a variety of narrative forms, from books to punchy television reviews and features. His latest book, “Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present,” is based on time he spent in Frisco, Texas, beginning in 2006. Making good on the title’s evocations of both sweetness and Scrooge, Stuever explores [...]
