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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
Finding the Tribe

Finding the Tribe

When Hillary Frank first started producing “The Longest Shortest Time” podcast in 2010, she was going through a rough time herself. A radio producer for more than a decade, she…
September 11, 2014
Cynthia Graber
First Listen: Apple’s iTunes carries more than 250,000 podcasts. Here are a few of the best for journalists

First Listen: Apple’s iTunes carries more than 250,000 podcasts. Here are a few of the best for journalists

“Strangers”Host/Producer: Lea ThauThrough conversations about life and death, love and heartbreak, and everything in between, people share the most intimate stories about their lives.Recommended Episode: “Gay Talese: Committed Voyeur” The…
September 11, 2014
Required Reading, Session Two

Required Reading, Session Two

Welcome to the second session of our discussion with narrative instructors about the stories they’re assigning students this fall. If you missed Monday’s recommendations from Alex Kotlowitz, Doug Foster and…
September 9, 2014
Louise Kiernan
Required Reading, Session One

Required Reading, Session One

As the academic year gets underway, we decided to ask some top narrative journalism instructors what they’re assigning their students to study this semester and why. There are some tried-and-true…
September 8, 2014
Louise Kiernan

3 (Stories) for 2 (Days)

It’s time for Storyboard’s three weekend picks. Here they are:In honor of Roger Federer’s gritty performance in Thursday’s U.S. Open quarterfinal, it seems fitting to re-read David Foster Wallace’s 2006…
September 5, 2014
Louise Kiernan