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Author Caroline Paul: "Adventures are simply stories in action"

Author Caroline Paul: “Adventures are simply stories in action”

When the writer Caroline Paul was young, she wanted to be an Olympic athlete. Problem was, she says, she wasn’t amazingly gifted. So she picked a sport that didn’t have…
From the Storyboard vaults: Some "ghost" stories for Halloween

From the Storyboard vaults: Some “ghost” stories for Halloween

In honor of Halloween, here are a few “ghost” stories that got the Storyboard treatment in years past. All treats, no tricks.Enjoy!https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/whys-this-so-good-no-33-michael-paterniti-long-fall-of-111-heavy-thomas-curwen/https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/high-country-news-michelle-nijhuis-on-living-with-an-uneasy-ghost/https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/steve-luxenberg-interview-on-annies-ghosts-a-journey-into-a-family-secret/…
Finger poppin' with Horace Silver and saying goodbye to Columbus with Philip Roth

Finger poppin’ with Horace Silver and saying goodbye to Columbus with Philip Roth

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
5 Questions: Hanna Rosin and "The Silicon Valley Suicides"

5 Questions: Hanna Rosin and “The Silicon Valley Suicides”

Tomorrow’s journalists exploring the masters of today Jacqui Banaszynski is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who now is an endowed Knight Chair  professor at the Missouri School of Journalism. Last semester,…
"Wild" author Cheryl Strayed: "bad memoirs are narcissistic; good memoirs are about all of us"

“Wild” author Cheryl Strayed: “bad memoirs are narcissistic; good memoirs are about all of us”

Cheryl Strayed has pretty much won the writers’ lottery: Her memoir “Wild” was a boffo bestseller, picked for Oprah’s book club and translated into dozens of languages. It then  became…
Robert Johnson and Dorothy Parker: now *that* would be a dinner party

Robert Johnson and Dorothy Parker: now *that* would be a dinner party

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
5 Questions: The Washington Post's Eli Saslow and "A survivor's life"

5 Questions: The Washington Post’s Eli Saslow and “A survivor’s life”

The Pulitzer winner (and two-time finalist) talks about covering the aftermath of a school shooting a different way: "the truth is obviously so much uglier and so much messier and…
Annotation Tuesday! Brooke Jarvis and "The Deepest Dig"

Annotation Tuesday! Brooke Jarvis and “The Deepest Dig”

The Seattle-based writer talks about her California Sunday Magazine piece on the "final frontier" of deep-sea mining, and adapting to the freelancing life
On covering Black Lives Matter, and the white working class

On covering Black Lives Matter, and the white working class

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
Dying along with Whitney Houston at the Future of Storytelling Festival

Dying along with Whitney Houston at the Future of Storytelling Festival

Along with "Famous Deaths," the virtual-reality gathering offered an immersive Black Lives Matter experience and a chance to fly like a bird (wings included)