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Kari Howard

@karihow

I'm the woman who left a dream job as Column One editor at the Los Angeles Times because I wanted to move to Maine. Go figure how happiness works. Former editor of Nieman Storyboard. I love music almost as much as (and sometimes more than) beautiful storytelling, so expect to see that here too.

Reflections on the challenges and triumphs of masculinity in changing times

Reflections on the challenges and triumphs of masculinity in changing times

An anthology of profiles by award-winning journalist Steve Oney is out in paperback, offering lessons in an essential journalistic artform
May 17, 2019

“sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love”

—“Sweet Spring,” by e.e. cummings
April 18, 2018

“The Sun specializes in short items unlikely to tax the mental capacities of its target audience: one-paragraph news articles, one-sentence paragraphs, one-word sentences.”

—Sarah Lyall, “The Anglo Files”
April 11, 2018
Sharing a cup of tea with London blogger "The Gentle Author"

Sharing a cup of tea with London blogger “The Gentle Author”

The writer behind the popular Spitalfields Life blog talks about intimacy, forming a community and a deep love for the East End
April 10, 2018

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”

—President Franklin D. Roosevelt
April 4, 2018

“I’d rather go down in history as one lone Negro who dared to tell the government that it had done a dastardly thing than to save my skin by taking back what I said.”

–Ida B. Wells, pioneering investigative journalist
March 28, 2018

“The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy.”

—Richard Yates, “Revolutionary Road."
March 21, 2018
Katharine Seelye and "Life on an Island: Silence, Beauty and a Long Wait for the Ferry"

Katharine Seelye and “Life on an Island: Silence, Beauty and a Long Wait for the Ferry”

In a lyrical New York Times story that resonated with readers, the writer juxtaposes the hardship and the loveliness of winter on a remote Maine island
March 20, 2018

“The American people want someone to articulate their rage for them.”

—Paddy Chayefsky, “Network.”
March 7, 2018

“An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.”

—Susan Orlean, "The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup."
February 21, 2018