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Jonathan Eig searches for the characters of his new book

Jonathan Eig searches for the characters of his new book

In previous books, best-selling author Jonathan Eig profiled baseball legend Lou Gehrig and Chicago gangster Al Capone. But as he set about researching his most recent project, he faced an interesting…
October 14, 2014
Jonathan Eig

Pinker, King and Sager on writing

For this weekend’s selections, Storyboard recommends reading about writing; we’re highlighting some recent articles that feature advice from authors whose worlds range from horror to science to journalism.Harvard cognitive scientist,…
October 10, 2014
Louise Kiernan
Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and "If He Hollers Let Him Go"

Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and “If He Hollers Let Him Go”

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and I met recently in her Brooklyn apartment to talk about “If He Hollers Let Him Go.” Her story, which is and isn’t about comedian Dave Chappelle,…
October 7, 2014
Elon Green
5 Questions for Jill Lepore

5 Questions for Jill Lepore

No wonder Jill Lepore describes herself as a “code-switcher.” She’s both a prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. Her most…
October 6, 2014
Louise Kiernan
Bringing creativity to complex issues: The Washington Post, New Republic and CIR

Bringing creativity to complex issues: The Washington Post, New Republic and CIR

This week’s 3 for 2 picks highlight recent work that incorporates elements of creative storytelling to examine complex issues, with standout journalism on national security, criminal justice and the environment.…
October 3, 2014
Louise Kiernan

Best of the best of the best?

Here’s a highly curated list for you. Robert Atwan, the editor of the “Best American Essays” series, has selected for the Publishers Weekly website his top 10 essays since 1950. Atwan…
October 2, 2014
Louise Kiernan
Barbara Mahany and the spiritual landscape

Barbara Mahany and the spiritual landscape

Editor’s Note: Welcome to the newest installment of “Writing the Book,” an occasional Storyboard feature in which journalists turned authors discuss the challenges of creating their work. In this essay,…
October 1, 2014
Barbara Mahany

Pearls before Breakfast, Reprised

Almost anyone who loves narrative journalism or music or social experiments or who simply believes that children are wiser than adults knows the Gene Weingarten story “Pearls Before Breakfast.”In this…
September 30, 2014
Louise Kiernan

“The problem of being labelled a confessionalist”

If you’ve read Meghan Daum’s terrific essay in the Sept. 29 New Yorker on her decision to remain childless (one of Storyboard’s most recent weekend picks), you’ll want to take a…
September 29, 2014
Louise Kiernan

Catch up on stories from the New Yorker, Chicago Tribune and NPR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs069dndIYkHere are Storyboard’s three picks for your reading, viewing and dancing pleasure this weekend:In an essay entitled “Difference Maker: The childless, the parentless, and the Central Sadness,” Meghan Daum writes in the…
September 26, 2014
Louise Kiernan