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Killian Mansfield: a holiday lament

Before the Thanksgiving holiday, we step away from the future of story and transmedia discussions to offer a classic print narrative. David Amsden’s “Never Mind the Pity” traces the elegant arc of the…

The end of the line for the Lone Ranger? A how-to guide for narrative collaboration

When The Roanoke Times “Age of Uncertainty” won Documentary Project of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, it wasn’t the narrative writing or the photography or the Web…
Esquire’s Tom Junod looks for “One Good Man”

Esquire’s Tom Junod looks for “One Good Man”

Esquire’s Tom Junod crawls under his subjects’ public masks and starts asking questions. Junod has long specialized in profiling symbols such as a man falling from the north tower of…

Fallout: Brookhaven National Lab’s Legacy in the Pacific

While we love the classic storytelling of Gary Smith or Chris Jones, sometimes a Notable Narrative attracts our attention even if it sits on the border between narrative and straight…

Tyler Cowen rails against narrative—can stories make us stupid?

Tyler CowenEarlier this month at the mid-Atlantic TEDx in Baltimore, blogging economist Tyler Cowen gave a 16-minute talk about the dangers of narrative. He spoke about the oft-discussed universal stories…
Comic book news: survival tales (part 3)

Comic book news: survival tales (part 3)

[Part 1 of this series looked at the turn toward individuals telling true stories via comics, while Part 2 illustrated how comics began to use a subjective vantage point to…

The Auburn Chautauqua: a do-it-yourself literary conference

Atlanta Magazine reporter Thomas Lake recently hosted an unusual narrative conference at his family’s homeplace in rural Ludowici, Georgia.The Auburn Chautauqua—named for the educational movement that brought cultural and entertainment…
Comic book news: Joe Sacco draws on history (part 2)

Comic book news: Joe Sacco draws on history (part 2)

Part 2 of a look at graphic narrative journalism [Part 1 discussed how “comics journalism” rose from the underground and independent comics scene to combine conventions of the traditional comic…
Comic book news: a look at graphic narrative journalism (part 1)

Comic book news: a look at graphic narrative journalism (part 1)

Print journalism and comic books share a history. Without the former the latter would never have come to be. Journalists have also had their own struggle—the phrases “New Journalism” and…
42 Essential 3rd Act Twists: one narrative alternative to storyboards?

42 Essential 3rd Act Twists: one narrative alternative to storyboards?

[First in a series looking at storyboarding projects.]You're almost done with your six-month narrative project, and you realize you have no multimedia elements. Or worse, you're coming upon the end of…