We spoke this week with Rebecca Skloot, author of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” A longtime science writer with a commitment to narrative, Skloot has written for The New York Times Magazine; O, The Oprah Magazine; and Discover, among other publications. Her book recounts the story of an African-American tobacco farmer whose cancer [...]
Tag Archives: Rebecca Skloot
Rebecca Skloot on narrating history: “looking for that one family, that one person, that one moment that will help hold everything together”
July 16, 2010 – 12:53 pm
What we’re watching: in which we consider a New York City shelter, the sound of snow and Rebecca Skloot’s narrative play-by-play
June 21, 2010 – 2:27 pm
Pictures pack a punch. And so continuing in the tradition of our “What we’re reading” posts, one of the things we’ll be doing here at Nieman Storyboard is a regular roundup called “What we’re watching.”
Bringing together documentary film, interactive visuals, photo galleries and other forms of reported visual narrative in one place may make for [...]
