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"Why’s this so good?" No. 81: Lawrence Wright and the "bootleg preacher"

I’m old enough to have practiced as a state prosecutor for a while, but I still laugh at fart jokes. Regardless of the flatulent punch line, Larry the Cable Guy’s…
August 6, 2013
Collected wisdom: Orlean, Atkinson, Powers, Corchado, Britt, Merida, Bennett and more

Collected wisdom: Orlean, Atkinson, Powers, Corchado, Britt, Merida, Bennett and more

If you missed a post or two in our weeklong recap of this year's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, here's the roundup: On Tuesday, the Tampa Bay Times' Kelley Benham and…
August 2, 2013
Skip Hollandsworth on storytelling, listening, Hollywood, respect and the importance of getting out into the world

Skip Hollandsworth on storytelling, listening, Hollywood, respect and the importance of getting out into the world

No bullet-point tips list could compare with Skip Hollandworth’s Sunday sermonizing, which closed the 2013 Mayborn Conference. What follows is the Mayborn's video of Hollandsworth (followed by our selected excerpts)…
August 1, 2013
Skip Hollandsworth: National Magazine Award winner, screenwriter, tipmaster

Skip Hollandsworth: National Magazine Award winner, screenwriter, tipmaster

Mayborn Week continues: Skip Hollandsworth, a veteran writer for Texas Monthly, specializes in the kind of true-crime narrative yarns that are always bigger in Texas. In 2010, Hollandsworth won a National Magazine…
July 31, 2013
Kelley Benham and Tom French on "Never Let Go," book collaboration, first-person writing, memory and love

Kelley Benham and Tom French on "Never Let Go," book collaboration, first-person writing, memory and love

Tampa Bay Times reporter Kelley Benham went into labor four months early and delivered her daughter, Juniper, at 23 weeks: a baby who weighed 20 ounces and was no taller…
July 30, 2013
It's Mayborn Week at Storyboard!

It’s Mayborn Week at Storyboard!

Tomorrow through Friday we’ll feature exclusive outtakes from this month’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference at the University of North Texas. This year’s correspondents: veteran journalists Lee Hancock and Charlie Lewis,…
July 29, 2013
Pinned this week: Kang, King, Miller, Proulx, DeGregory, Le Coz + more

Pinned this week: Kang, King, Miller, Proulx, DeGregory, Le Coz + more

Pinned this week for your storytelling pleasure: Three great reads and some tips. And hey, don’t forget to follow us on Pinterest.Recommended reading (watching, listening, etc.):Jay Caspian Kang’s New York…
July 26, 2013
Inside 40 Towns: literary journalism, Dartmouth students and a professor who wanted more

Inside 40 Towns: literary journalism, Dartmouth students and a professor who wanted more

If you’ve been following 40 Towns, the new literary journalism magazine produced by Jeff Sharlet’s creative nonfiction students at Dartmouth, you’ve seen longform stories about ex-cons, a roadside motel, a…
July 23, 2013
Three reads and a tip sheet

Three reads and a tip sheet

Pinned and pulled for your weekend reading pleasure, Storyboard’s three favorite reads this week, plus 10 tips on artful interviewing from Pulitzer winner Isabel Wilkerson and others:1) “Lost in the Long White…
July 19, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Eli Saslow and one Newtown family

Annotation Tuesday! Eli Saslow and one Newtown family

Our Annotation Tuesday! series takes readers line by line through a notable piece of writing — with the author. Occasionally, we bring in a guest annotator. Elon Green, of The…
July 16, 2013