Strictly Q&A

5(ish) Questions: Charlotte Magazine and the shooting of Keith Scott

5(ish) Questions: Charlotte Magazine and the shooting of Keith Scott

Editor Michael Graff talks about how his small staff refused to be just "the magazine that gives you the best restaurants and places to live" and covered the unrest in…
5(ish) Questions: The creators of "visual narrative start-up" Primer Stories

5(ish) Questions: The creators of “visual narrative start-up” Primer Stories

Tim Lillis and Joe Alterio talk about combining written stories and visual ones on a site they hope will appeal to both longform lovers and listicle lushes.
5 Questions: Robert Sanchez and "Colorado Springs' Identity Crisis"

5 Questions: Robert Sanchez and “Colorado Springs’ Identity Crisis”

The 5280 magazine writer talks about avoiding caricature in an extreme city and capturing a "sense of place in an authentic way"
5(ish) Questions: René Koster and a stunning voyage to Antarctica

5(ish) Questions: René Koster and a stunning voyage to Antarctica

In the competitive world of professional photography, René Koster takes a back seat to his subjects. His photos don’t scream out, “Hey, look how clever I am!” but rather they…
5(ish) Questions: Photographer Niki Boon on documenting her children "Wild and Free"

5(ish) Questions: Photographer Niki Boon on documenting her children “Wild and Free”

Reminiscent of Sally Mann's work, her photos summon the childhood many people had for moments, maybe on a camping trip, or wish they had
5(ish) Questions: Adam Hochschild and Texaco's secret support for Franco in the Spanish Civil War

5(ish) Questions: Adam Hochschild and Texaco’s secret support for Franco in the Spanish Civil War

The historian talks about smuggling an investigative sense of urgency—the feeling that there's something hidden that we ought to know—into the past

Kate Christensen: “It is crucial to avoid grinding axes, settling scores and pointing fingers in your memoir”

The PEN/Faulkner winner talks about the differences in creating characters in memoir vs. fiction, plus finding happiness in Maine
Digital longform, and the pitfalls of the "build it and they will come" approach to business models

Digital longform, and the pitfalls of the “build it and they will come” approach to business models

Readers with delicate sensibilities, you might want to prepare yourself for the results of one Missouri student's thesis research

Rebecca Nesson: “I like aliveness, whether it’s miserable or whether it’s ecstatic”

A story of marriage on the rocks and a pregnancy unwanted
Ezra Edelman: "The job of an interviewer is to prompt people to go to a place they didn't even realize they were prepared to go to"

Ezra Edelman: “The job of an interviewer is to prompt people to go to a place they didn’t even realize they were prepared to go to”

Forty-six minutes into Episode 4 of Ezra Edelman’s epic documentary “O.J. Simpson: Made in America,” the director squares off with Barry Scheck, the defense attorney who discredited–or, at the very…