January 17, 2013 – 10:12 am
Justin Heckert had a great late 2012 with stories in Esquire and the New York Times magazine, and then this piece in Sports Illustrated, “The Loneliest Number,” which is about Jack Taylor. Kind of. Remember Jack Taylor? He’s the kid from Grinnell College in Iowa who in a basketball game in November scored 138 points. That [...]
September 11, 2012 – 12:49 pm
A tattered, stapled-together copy of Scott Anderson’s “The Hunger Warriors” now qualifies as one of my oldest and most treasured possessions. I distinctly remember snipping it out of the New York Times magazine nearly 11 years ago, so I could study the means by which Anderson managed to break my heart. I still read the [...]
September 7, 2012 – 11:14 am
The first week of fall term ends today at Harvard, and the Nieman Foundation’s newest class of fellows is settling in. The Nieman fellowship, which next year will celebrate its 75th anniversary, brings together 12 U.S. and 12 international journalists for one year of study across the university. Fellows pursue the topics of their choice, [...]
By Paige Williams
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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, Rolling Stone, The Atavist, The National Review, The New Yorker, Thomas Mallon, Whitaker Chambers
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August 17, 2012 – 8:42 am
We’ve chosen Jeneen Interlandi’s recent New York Times magazine cover story about her father’s mental illness as our latest Notable Narrative. “When My Crazy Father Actually Lost His Mind” follows a sobering episode in the bipolar history of Joseph Interlandi, revealing flaws in the nation’s mental health and criminal justice system. We caught up with Interlandi [...]
I often tell students, both undergraduate and graduate, that beautiful stories are everywhere. You can head off to Iraq and Afghanistan and pen a riveting war epic, but you can also discover scintillating stories much closer to home – in the faces of people you see everyday, in the mom-and-pop store up the street, even in [...]
If you’ve ever spent some time nosing around Storyboard you know we archive everything from interactive narratives to original essays on craft, in which masters such as Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Rick Meyer and Walt Harrington offer tips on developing characters, finding stories, writing scenes and more. Some of the 26 pieces feel fresh even a decade later. Here’s [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in words
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Also tagged Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Bruce DeSilva, Ernest Hemingway, Jack Hart, Michael Pollan, Peter Singer, Rebecca Allen, Rick Meyer, Storycraft, The Orange County Register, Walt Harrington
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Our bookmarks have been busy lately what with all the good stuff to read and watch and hear. Some of our recent favorites hail from CNN.com, Grantland, the New York Times magazine and Esquire. In case you missed them, here are four pieces worth your time: Slavery 360° For the CNN.com multimedia narrative “Slavery’s Last [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in what we're reading etc.
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Also tagged Bess Kalb, Charles McGrath, Chris Jones, CNN.com, Edythe McNamee, Esquire, Gay Talese, Grantland, John D. Sutter, Justin Ellis, Robert Caro, The 6th Floor, W.C. Heinz
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It’s been a little over a year since The Atavist debuted as a groundbreaking digital platform for long-form multimedia storytelling. Narrative journalists had been bemoaning the shrinking storytelling acreage, so this app-based venue was met with substantial interest. “E-books are more than a publishing platform,” as New York magazine referred to the genre, “they’re a whole new literary form.” [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative speaker series
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Also tagged Adam Tanner, Al Gore, Alissa Quart, Alysia Abbott, Anna Griffin, Brendan Koerner, Byliner, Carlotta Gall, Cris Beam, David Dobbs, David Grann, David Skok, David Wolman, digital National Magazine Award, Dina Kraft, Evan Ratliff, Gay Talese, Harper's, Hiroshima, James Geary, Jefferson Rabb, Jonathan Blakley, Jonathan Franzen, Joshua Hammer, longform.org, longreads, Matthew Power, Michael Lewis, National Magazine Award, Newsweek, Nicholas Thompson, Outside, Paige Williams, Raquel Rutledge, The Atavist, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, Tyler Bridges, Wired
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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, Rolling Stone, Ronnie Agnew, The American Scholar, The Clarion-Ledger, The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Stranger, The Virginian-Pilot, Walt Harrington, Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Journalism
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