Story Annotations Annotation: John Jeremiah Sullivan and “Upon This Rock” [Editor’s note: John Jeremiah Sullivan‘s “Upon This Rock” is by now a modern classic of literary journalism: writer rents an RV, experiences a Christian rock festival (and certain revelations) with a… August 1, 2014 Elon Green Annotation Tuesday! Rebecca Skloot and the wild dogs of New York Before Rebecca Skloot published the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, she wrote magazines stories about science and about animals. You may remember her New York Times magazine piece… July 22, 2014 Paige Williams Susan Orlean and the American man, age 10 Susan Orlean likes to do something not many other journalists can get away with. In many of her articles Orlean tells us, right there on the page, what she’s thinking… June 29, 2014 Manjula Martin Annotation Tuesday! Roger Angell and the pitcher with a major-league case of the yips Roger Angell has been writing stories about baseball since the year before John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He’s been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1944 and became fiction… March 11, 2014 Elon Green Annotation Tuesday! Jeff Sharlet and the iron closet Last week, on the eve of the Sochi Olympics, GQ published "Inside the Iron Closet," a Jeff Sharlet story that revealed disturbing details about what it's like to be gay in… February 12, 2014 Elon Green Annotation Tuesday! Buzz Bissinger and “The Killing Trail” Buzz Bissinger’s “The Killing Trail” — his unremittingly bleak 1995 account of “fag-bashing” in Texas — was his first story for Vanity Fair. (He is still a contributor, and has… January 28, 2014 Elon Green Annotation Tuesday! Lillian Ross and Ernest Hemingway It’s easy, now, to see Lillian Ross’s 1950 New Yorker Profile of Ernest Hemingway for what it is: a masterpiece. But 63 years ago, this wasn’t so obvious. Ross, as… December 17, 2013 Elon Green Gay Talese explains why he wrote iconic Esquire profile “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” Why did it strike a chord with people? Talese has no idea October 8, 2013 Elon Green Annotation Tuesday! Sebastian Junger and the perfect storm The magazine story behind Sebastian Junger‘s celebrated nonfiction book A Perfect Storm ran in Outside magazine in October 1994. “The Storm” (4,765 words) told the story of the Andrea Gail, a fishing boat out of Gloucester,… August 20, 2013 Elon Green 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 Andy Kroll Previous 1 … 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next
