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Carrie at the prom and the Nora Charles of the Allagash

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,…
Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Shane Bauer is no stranger to prisons. In 2009, when he was a freelance journalist living in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iranian border guards arrested him and two others when they accidentally…
Kate Christensen: "It is crucial to avoid grinding axes, settling scores and pointing fingers in your memoir"

Kate Christensen: “It is crucial to avoid grinding axes, settling scores and pointing fingers in your memoir”

Novelist and memoirist Kate Christensen is a bit of a pioneer for me, leading a Lewis and Clark expedition to a new life.Seven years ago, she moved to the White…
Digital longform as journalism jetpack, and "Walking While Black"

Digital longform as journalism jetpack, and “Walking While Black”

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,…
Digital longform, and the pitfalls of the "build it and they will come" approach to business models

Digital longform, and the pitfalls of the “build it and they will come” approach to business models

“I don’t know what we were thinking.”“Well, what do you think?”“You tell me. I have no idea.”When Aleksandr Gorbachev decided to research the business models of digital longform publications for…
Gay Talese: the latest scorecard on the scandals

Gay Talese: the latest scorecard on the scandals

So I leave the country for a few weeks, and I miss the latest Twitter storm surrounding Gay Talese. The world may have moved on to Pokemon (and by the…
Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

My first memory of reading something by Tom Curwen is like one of those dreams where you wake up and you want to hold onto it, but it slips away…
Boris, Brexit and Bond (oh, and Tom Wolfe): a few of the week's favorite things

Boris, Brexit and Bond (oh, and Tom Wolfe): a few of the week’s favorite things

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,…
Rebecca Nesson: "I like aliveness, whether it's miserable or whether it's ecstatic"

Rebecca Nesson: “I like aliveness, whether it’s miserable or whether it’s ecstatic”

Rebecca Nesson crafted an oral story for the Moth on her marital crisis.Three years ago, Rebecca Nesson thought her marriage was falling apart. During a bitter argument with her husband,…

Where Tom Wolfe got his status obsession

Drawing a line from Yale classrooms and dead German intellectuals to Masters of the Universe