Author “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” Why is it great? For “Controversy Week” on Storyboard, I chose a sentence from one of the most controversial books of the 20th century. “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” was shocking on… September 6, 2017 The late Alex Tizon and “My Family’s Slave”: his first memory, and his last byline The Atlantic story, published just weeks after his death, drew a firestorm of criticism; a Pulitzer winner and friend examines the craft, and the loss September 5, 2017 It’s Southern Week on Storyboard: Read on for some great regional storytelling It was Southern Week here on Storyboard, spotlighting some wonderful regional journalism and writing. It’s been fun tweeting out great lines from famous Southern writers, including this one from William… September 1, 2017 Monica Hesse and “American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land” The Washington Post reporter talks about what it's like to juggle multiple projects (and genres), and the virtue of capturing the way people talk August 31, 2017 “Sometimes at noon down South on the hottest of days, when everyone is shivering inside their arctic offices, I go outside just to hear the metallic whirring of the cicadas start up in the trees on the edge of the parking lot. Their tymbals pulsate against their abdomens and the thick air reverberates with the loneliest sound in the universe.” In addition to the music of Blythe’s lush language, I love how he captures this brash paradox–that a chorus can make us feel so lonely. Furthermore I love how, like… August 30, 2017 Notable Narrative: Joe Kovac Jr. and a tale of murder, a manhunt and a midnight run The crime was brutal – two guards shot to death with their own .40-caliber Glocks inside a Georgia Department of Corrections bus packed with prisoners. The setting was primal –… August 29, 2017 Love and laughter and Dorothy Parker: sounds like the name of a cool movie, no? Sometimes, when the world is too much with us, we just need a love story or a laugh. This week, Storyboard obliged with lots of both. We talked to the… August 25, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Podcast producer Lily Percy and humor as a survival tool She has a Groucho Marx tattoo on her left wrist, and a biblically tinged Sufjan Stevens lyric inked on her right arm. So maybe it makes sense that radio producer… August 24, 2017 “Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.” Why is it great? Yesterday was Dorothy Parker’s birthday. (She would have been 124, reminding me of her classic line, “Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy… August 23, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Mandy Len Catron and “How to Fall in Love With Anyone” Perhaps you’ve read that Modern Love essay in The New York Times, the one that zipped around the country along internet tethers and social media synapses in 2015 like contagious… August 22, 2017 Previous 1 … 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 … 245 Next
