February 12, 2013 – 9:24 am
Last summer, John Jeremiah Sullivan wrote an essay about Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom!, and amid his deft and borderline genius thoughts on the novel – “It…dramatize[s] historical consciousness itself, not just human lives but the forest of time in which the whole notion of human life must find its only meaning” – Sullivan said something telling [...]
Every spring, the City and Regional Magazine Association names a Writer of the Year, and twice the organization has handed Justin Heckert that honor. Heckert won recently for Atlanta magazine stories about an AIDS survivor, tornado victims, an underground newspaper, struggling standup comics and zombies. The winners aren’t always what the industry likes to call [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads, narrative news
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Also tagged 5280 Magazine, 60 Minutes, Amanda Heckert, And the Band Played On, Atlanta Magazine, City & Regional Magazine Association, Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, CRMA, Daimon Eklund, Decatur Book Festival, Diana Raschke, Ernest Hemingway, ESPN The Magazine, Greg Mellen, Indianapolis Magazine, Joyce Carol Oates, Justin Heckert, Lee Walburn, Luke Dittrich, Mike Wallace, Mimi Swartz, Missouri Sch, My Own Country, Pat Heckert, PBS, Philadelphia magazine, Rebecca Burns, Robert Huber, Robert Sanchez, Ryan Cameron, Seth Wickersham, Steve Fennessy, Steve Walentik, Texas Monthly, The Bird, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Thomas Lake, Tony Rehagen, Wright Thompson
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We chose Wright Thompson’s ESPN.com piece “The Kid Who Wasn’t There” as our latest Notable Narrative because the story added a chilling layer to the odd life story of Guerdwich Montimere, the grown man who passed himself off as a Texas high schooler and became a basketball star. So much of Thompson’s work, though, merits [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Chris Jones, David Halberstam, Dean Faulkner Wells, Deborah Popper, Drew Gallagher, Emmy, ESPN The Magazine, ESPN.com, Esquire, Frank Popper, Gary Smith, GQ, Hunter S. Thompson, Jay Lovinger, JFK, John Steinbeck, Kansas City Star, Michael Mooney, Richard Ford, Roger Ebert, The New York Times, Thomas Lake, William Styron, Wright Thompson
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September 29, 2011 – 6:59 pm
Our second Roundtable of September examines “The Good Short Life,” by Dudley Clendinen. Diagnosed with ALS, Clendinen reflects on the past suffering of those closest to him and decides that he would prefer to approach death on his own terms, ending his life at a moment of his choosing. His essay ran July 9 in the New [...]
By Andrea Pitzer
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Posted in editors' roundtable
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Also tagged Charles Dickens, Chip Scanlon, Dudley Clendinen, Jack Fuller, Laurie Hertzel, Maria Carrillo, NPR, Paige Williams, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, Tom Huang
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