A week into March, we’re eager for spring, but the narrative stories we’ve unearthed lately consistently offer up darker themes that go against the promise of the season. We’ve rounded up a few that focus specifically on death: murder on campus, suicide at work, death in combat and perhaps most surprising, a delicately crafted obituary [...]
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What we’re reading: death in all its guises
March 8, 2011 – 1:21 pm
By Andrea Pitzer
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Also tagged Amy Wallace, Chris Jones, Esquire, Gangrey, Greg Jaffe, Joel Johnson, longreads, Rob Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle, Steve Rubenstein, The Browser, The Washington Post, Wired
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What we’re reading, third edition: In which we find the mystery in game shows, timeless art and the Dalai Lama’s Patek Philippe watch
July 15, 2010 – 10:07 am
Today we offer the latest fare from two long-form masters, as well as an oddball assortment of not-quite-narratives that still get to the heart of a story.
CLASSIC NARRATIVES
See how Chris Jones and David Grann both build a narrative and then proceed to deconstruct it.
“The Mark of a Masterpiece,” by David Grann from The New [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Barbara Demick, Chris Jones, David Grann, Esquire, Granta, Hodinkee, Isa Pessoa, Jacob Lambert, Julia Michaels, Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The New Yorker, What we're reading
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