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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.

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”

—Zora Neale Hurston, American writer
February 14, 2018

“For what are we without hope in our hearts / That someday we’ll drink from God’s blessed waters / And eat the fruit from the vine / I know love and fortune will be mine / Somewhere across the border.”

—Bruce Springsteen, “Across the Border”
January 31, 2018

“He longed for a past as imagined as it was real.”

—Anthony Shadid, “What Baghdad Has Lost,” The Washington Post, July 12, 2009.
January 24, 2018

’Tis.

—Frank McCourt, “Angela’s Ashes”
January 17, 2018
Start 2018 out right with some literary journalism conferences and workshops

Start 2018 out right with some literary journalism conferences and workshops

The Power of Narrative: Telling True Stories in Turbulent TimesMarch 23-25Boston UniversityBoston, MassachusettsIt looks like the longest-running narrative journalism conference is making a point of spotlighting great female journalists and…
January 4, 2018

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice.”

—T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
January 3, 2018
Want to read some of the best literary journalism of 2017? We've got you covered

Want to read some of the best literary journalism of 2017? We’ve got you covered

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure
December 22, 2017

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”

—Andrew Wyeth, American painter
December 13, 2017

“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.”

—Percy Bysshe Shelley, from "A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays"
December 6, 2017
The power of historical nonfiction: "Let me tell you what happened right on this spot a long time ago"

The power of historical nonfiction: “Let me tell you what happened right on this spot a long time ago”

A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure
December 1, 2017