Why’s This So Good?

[pq]”Elroy lives here. Tiny, half-blind, mentally retarded, 39-year-old Elroy. To find him, go past the counselor flirting on the phone.”[/pq]If you had been in the Georgetown University cafeteria back in…

Imagine, if you will, an investigative series in a metropolitan tabloid daily newspaper about renegade narcotics cops and a lying informant, a series that opens with a headline like this:[sidebar…

It’s June 2003, and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has just been overthrown. “Everybody likes us,” Spec. Stephen Harris, a 20-year-old from Lafayette, Louisiana, tells a Washington Post correspondent while on…

In 1986, Patrick McSorley was a 12-year-old-boy living in a Boston housing project. His dad had just committed suicide, and his mom was schizophrenic. One day, a Catholic priest named…

I just got off the plane from the Republican National Convention with a bulletproof vest still packed in my suitcase, and I have to wonder if last week would have…

This is the tenth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project]. It’s also the longest by far; where all…

This is the ninth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who…

This is the eighth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer…

New York Magazine’s “One Block” multimedia story.From the moment you load the page of New York Magazine’s award-winning multimedia story “One Block,” you feel like you’ve been invited to hang…

This is the seventh of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer who…