For “Project 50: Four walls and a bed,” our latest Notable Narrative, reporter Christopher Goffard spent two years following a Los Angeles-area program aimed at finding the most at-risk homeless and giving them a place to live. Goffard, who has had several stories selected as Notable Narratives across the years, is also a novelist, and [...]
Tag Archives: Malcolm Gladwell
L.A. Times reporter Christopher Goffard on structure, sympathy and how to make a story go: “The same thing that’s going to make people sit through a movie will make them sit through a 10,000-word series”
September 10, 2010 – 1:48 pm
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 [...]
