Michael J. Mooney staked his claim in the world of narrative journalism with two stories that ran just weeks apart in the summer of 2012. In June, Mooney, a staff writer at D magazine, published a searing account of a 62-year-old woman who survived being tortured and raped for 12 days by her former neighbor. (You can read a Storyboard Q-and-A with Mooney about that story here.)
The next month, he returned with a very different kind of story, the one we're annotating today: “The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever.” The headline isn't hyperbole. The story made a slew of year-end lists, among them Longread's "Best of 2012" and Byliner’s "102 Spectacular Pieces of Nonfiction from 2012," and was included in “Best American Sports Writing 2013.”
