December 11, 2012 – 8:55 am
Sometime in my last year of college, James Brown played a show in the small East Coast city where I lived. I had all sorts of reasons not to go: I had a midterm the next morning, for which I was woefully unprepared; tickets were $50, equivalent to 25 happy-hour pints at the pub where [...]
November 6, 2012 – 10:06 am
Why hasn’t anybody Hunter S. Thompsonized this election? Or have they, and we missed it? Esquire’s Charlie Pierce approacheth – In the interest of keeping you abreast of news that hasn’t happened yet, I would like to introduce you to what the intellectuals in the employ of the Glenn Beck Empire will be saying on [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Byliner, Charlie Pierce, Columbia Journalism Review, Esquire, GQ, Hunter S. Thompson, Jill Lepore, Joe McGinniss, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Roger Ailes, Saul Bellow, The Chicago Tribune, the New York Mirror, Vanity Fair
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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, 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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August 23, 2012 – 8:17 am
Five from the field: 1. Rachel McAthy’s recent roundup of eight long-form digital projects included sites you probably already know about, like The Atavist, Byliner and Longreads, but also Matter, which recently met its Kickstarter funding goal and plans to publish one in-depth science and technology narrative per week. Learn more via Matter’s Kickstarter page: Narratively, [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Amy Benfer, Andrew Corsello, Byliner, Cathy Young, Dave Gilson, GQ, Grantland, Jeff Tietz, John Hodgman, Jordan Conn, Kickstarter, LongForm, longreads, Matt Thompson, Matter, Mother Jones, Narratively, NPR, Rachel McAthy, Reason, The Atavist, The National Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Thomas Mallon, Whitaker Chambers
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“The prosecutor wanted to know about window coverings. He asked: Which windows in the house on South Rose Street, the house where you woke up to him standing over you with a knife that night – which windows had curtains that blocked out the rest of the world and which did not?” So begins Eli Sanders’ story “The [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged Amy Ellis Nutt, Amy Harmon, Anna Griffin, Barry Siegel, Ben Yagoda, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Corinne Reilly, Eli Sanders, Esquire, Gene Weingarten, George Polk Award, Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, Jim Sheeler, John Branch, Lane DeGregory, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, National Book Award, Nieman Fellow, Pulitzer Prize, Raquel Rutledge, Rocky Mountain News, Ronnie Agnew, The American Scholar, The Clarion-Ledger, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Stranger, The Virginian-Pilot, Walt Harrington, Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism
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National Magazine Award judges have a tough job this year as they choose a winner in the features category. There’s the sobering story about a corporate attorney’s mysterious death in Guatemala; the bizarre tale of a pair of young international arms dealers; the moving account of two dozen strangers braving a massive tornado; a fable-like piece [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in narrative news
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Also tagged 5280, American Society of Magazine Editors, ASME, David Grann, Esquire, GQ, Guy Lawson, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Los Angeles magazine, Luke Dittrich, Mark Bowden, Michael Paterniti, Mike Kessler, Natasha Gardner, National Magazine Awards, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair
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January 17, 2012 – 12:14 pm
There’s a video of Britney Spears shot in 2007, not long after Valentine’s Day. She’s pacing around a tattoo parlor, where she’s just gotten a pair of bright red lips inked on her wrist and a cross etched onto her hip. She’s bookended by men so large their silhouettes rival refrigerators, but enough of her [...]
What does it take to make a great story? Boston University’s “The Power of Narrative” conference, held on campus April 29-30, aimed to offer some insights. The event included the kind of writing techniques and “show don’t tell” advice you’d expect (and hope for) at such a gathering. But beyond hearing about the mechanics of narrative [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in narrative news, words
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Also tagged Boston University narrative conference, Dayton Duncan, Gay Talese, Hampton Sides, Isabel Wilkerson, Jill Abramson, John Stauffer, Kate Medina, Michael Hastings, New York, Random House, Susan Orlean, The New Yorker
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March 30, 2011 – 11:28 am
Our latest Notable Narrative, “The Kill Team,” recounts a series of killings in Afghanistan by American soldiers, one of whom recently pleaded guilty to three counts of murder. Rolling Stone has made an extensive commitment to investigating the conflict in Afghanistan, and Mark Boal upholds that commitment with riveting storytelling. Many of the facts of [...]
February 23, 2011 – 11:42 am
Looking for some quality narrative journalism you might not have noticed before? As awards season for newspapers and magazines gets underway, we wanted to share links to stories recognized for their writing and storytelling. Here are some of the more narrative categories and entries from the 2010 Polk Awards in Journalism, the list of finalists [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in images, words
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Also tagged 5280, American Society of News Editors, Atalanta magazine, Chicago, Chicago magazine, City and Regional Magazine Association, Freedom Forum, Frontline, George Polk Awards, Indianapolis Monthly, Los Angeles Times, Missouri School of Journalism, Philadelphia magazine, ProPublica, Texas Monthly, The New York Times, The Times-Picayune, The Washington Post
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