Our last Roundtable of 2011 considers “California and Bust,” in which superstar business reporter Michael Lewis turns his keen eye away from analyzing European financial problems, looking instead toward the mountain of debt in his home country. The story ran in the November issue of Vanity Fair.
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December Editors’ Roundtable: Vanity Fair on U.S. money trouble
December 16, 2011 – 12:26 pm
“Why’s this so good?” No. 15: Michael Lewis’ Greek odyssey
October 11, 2011 – 10:00 am
Last October, with the Greek bond crisis emerging as a danger to the European economy, Michael Lewis wrote a piece for Vanity Fair about an order of monks accused of manipulating the crisis to bilk the Greek government out of billions of dollars. It’s 12,000 words about bonds, corruption, politics and markets, yet it moves [...]
What we’re reading: Hitchens speechless, marathon lunacy and a problematic police sting
May 12, 2011 – 11:15 am
From Leslie Jamison’s account of the extreme, bizarre Barkley Marathon to Christopher Hitchens’ meditation on what it means to lose the thing that has helped define him as a writer, here are some of the most interesting things that have been sent to us or that we’ve stumbled across so far this month.
“The Immortal Horizon,” [...]
What we’re watching: newspapers go documentary
January 12, 2011 – 12:34 pm
It used to be that long-form newspaper narratives were, well, printed on newspaper. These days, long-form is taking on another meaning. Our latest installment of “what we’re watching” includes two video documentary projects from newspapers, as well as a number of photography-centered visual stories from dailies in the U.S and Australia.
First up is this trailer for [...]
Art or abuse? A portrait of Larry Rivers
November 23, 2010 – 4:21 pm
Was artist Larry Rivers a sexual swashbuckler, breaking taboos and changing the way we think of the human body, or did some of his work have truly disturbing elements? Our latest Notable Narrative, “Crimes of the Art?” from Vanity Fair, considers the ethical mess surrounding video that Rivers shot in the late 1970s of his [...]
Vanity Fair’s Bryan Burrough on writing narrative: “people are dying to put down your article”
August 6, 2010 – 12:45 am
In what might be the only performance of Texas stand-up comedy about narrative writing, Vanity Fair writer Bryan Burrough recently offered practical tips for long-form storytelling to a Mayborn Conference audience. Prior to his magazine career, Burrough spent several years reporting for The Wall Street Journal; he has also written five books, including “Public Enemies” [...]
