Search results for “5 questions” Showing 785 results "Why’s this so good?" No. 43: "Radio Diaries" on teenage drama Boxing stories leave me cold. Like many sports stories, they seem to assume an audience of fans who will be thrilled − rather than sickened − by a narrative built on grueling workouts, bloodied… May 22, 2012 What we're following: truthiness in narrative It’s been a volatile few months for ethics in storytelling, what with the unprecedented “This American Life” retraction of monologist Mike Daisey’s Apple story, and with the unfurled furor over… May 17, 2012 Wright Thompson on identity, clarity, editing, voodoo and the deadline virtues of Lionel Ritchie We chose Wright Thompson’s ESPN.com piece “The Kid Who Wasn't There” as our latest Notable Narrative because the story added a chilling layer to the odd life story of Guerdwich… May 11, 2012 Wright Thompson and the lingering saga of a lone star Our new “Notable Narrative,” “The Kid Who Wasn’t There,” by Wright Thompson of ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine, unearths the other half of the strange tale of Guerdwich Montimere, a… May 10, 2012 "Why's this so good?" No. 39: Gay Talese diagnoses Frank Sinatra Just shoot me now.That might be a normal journalist’s reaction to news that the subject of a mega-profile for a magazine cover story has declined to be interviewed for the… April 24, 2012 Harding in the house: a Pulitzer-winning novelist on rhythm, revision, rejection and a hundred other things We promote narrative nonfiction here at Storyboard but occasionally look outside the genre for storytelling inspiration. Paul Harding, who won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for his novel “Tinkers,”… April 20, 2012 "Why's this so good?" No. 38: Walt Harrington deconstructs Rita Dove Writing about the writing process isn’t easy, for good reason. Turning words into sentences and sentences into scenes is at heart a craft, yet there’s still a certain amount of… April 17, 2012 Getting the story: Luke Dittrich and the tornado In Thursday’s post we excerpted nice lines from the five National Magazine Award finalists in feature writing. These included Luke Dittrich’s “Heavenly Father!...,” from Esquire, about survivors of the Joplin,… April 13, 2012 Shaun McKinnon on deadline narrative, soundtrack inspiration and re-engaging readers in a saturated news story To follow up on our latest Notable Narrative we flagged down Arizona Republic reporter Shaun McKinnon this week as he boarded a plane from Washington, D.C., back home to Phoenix,… April 6, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 33: Michael Paterniti’s painted ghosts It was summer; it was winter. The village disappeared behind skeins of fog. Fishermen came and went in boats named Reverence, Granite Prince, Souwester.Whenever I find my writing drifting into… March 13, 2012 Previous 1 … 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 … 79 Next
