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"Why's This So Good?" No. 105b: Michael Brick and Finding Shade in a Legend's Shadow

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 105b: Michael Brick and Finding Shade in a Legend’s Shadow

This is the fifth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who…
June 2, 2016
Tommy Tomlinson
"Why's This So Good?" No. 105a: Michael Brick and Where Summer Slides Down Like a 9 a.m. Beer

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 105a: Michael Brick and Where Summer Slides Down Like a 9 a.m. Beer

This is the fourth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who…
June 2, 2016
Tony Rehagen
A letter of introduction: On loving literary journalism (plus music, Maine and tattoos)

A letter of introduction: On loving literary journalism (plus music, Maine and tattoos)

Kari HowardI’m Kari Howard, the new editor of Storyboard, and I’m writing to you from a Maine farmhouse, where possibly the biggest lilac bush in Waldo County is in full…
June 1, 2016
Kari Howard
"Why's This So Good?" No. 104: Michael Brick and an ordinary legal dispute

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 104: Michael Brick and an ordinary legal dispute

This is the third of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who…
May 24, 2016
Chris Jones
"Why's This So Good?" No. 103: Michael Brick and "Dusk of the Drummer"

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 103: Michael Brick and “Dusk of the Drummer”

This is the second of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who…
May 17, 2016
Ben Montgomery
"Why's This So Good?" No. 102: Michael Brick and "A Hipster Quits Williamsburg"

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 102: Michael Brick and “A Hipster Quits Williamsburg”

This is the first of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer…
May 10, 2016
Wright Thompson
5 Questions with: Ben Montgomery on Michael Brick and "Everyone Leaves Behind a Name"

5 Questions with: Ben Montgomery on Michael Brick and “Everyone Leaves Behind a Name”

Perhaps as much as any modern journalist, Michael Brick brought the style of Ben Hecht’s “A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago” into the 21st century newsroom. Hecht made the…
May 10, 2016
Michael Fitzgerald

“Shoot the picture. Don’t shoot the picture.”

As the 1960s came to an end, America was on the brink of a revolution, with the ascendant counterculture challenging nearly every aspect of American society at home while the…
May 6, 2016
Clara Bingham
From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on "Missing"

From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on “Missing”

Tiffany Whitton was last seen on video surveillance footage from a Marietta, Georgia, Walmart one night in September 2013. The video shows the twenty-six-year-old woman intoxicated and shoplifting; with her…
May 6, 2016
Alex Belth
The Power of Oral History as Journalism

The Power of Oral History as Journalism

First-person reports about Bill Cosby and Chernobyl bring new attention to an old form of storytelling
May 5, 2016
Keith O'Brien