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"Why’s this so good?" No. 65: David Grann and the death row prisoner

Four years ago, I began looking into the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was put to death by the state of Texas in 2004. Willingham had been convicted of…
November 20, 2012
“Why’s this so good?” No. 53: Phyllis Fletcher on Ina Ray Hutton’s secret

“Why’s this so good?” No. 53: Phyllis Fletcher on Ina Ray Hutton’s secret

Phyllis Fletcher opens this wonderful piece of rescued history and solved mystery with a simple declaration: “Ina Ray Hutton was a stone cold fox.” The correct response to this kind…
August 7, 2012

"Why’s this so good?" No. 51: Gary Smith and Coach O’Leary’s lies

We may as well begin the way Gary Smith begins – with a question, and near the end. Why is it that when you finish reading “Lying in Wait,” Smith’s…
July 24, 2012

The essence of story, in a 358-word song

When I was little, my mama worked the early shift at the seafood plant. She’d drop me off at my Aunt Janice’s house before dawn and they’d lay me down…
February 14, 2012
National Book Award winner T.J. Stiles on telling good stories and asking big questions

National Book Award winner T.J. Stiles on telling good stories and asking big questions

T.J. Stiles, author of Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, won a National Book Award in November for his second biography, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of…
January 25, 2010

Flight 1549 Survivor Got Out of the Hudson, Back into the Air

This month’s first Notable Narrative invites the reader in just before takeoff and then follows Casey Jones—who survived the U.S. Airways crash landing in the Hudson River—as he returns to…
May 1, 2009
Nadia Reiman on telling stories of immigration for ‘This American Life’

Nadia Reiman on telling stories of immigration for ‘This American Life’

The reporter and editor for ‘TAL’ reflects on the show’s unique voice, as well as her own experience with immigration
July 3, 2025
The Craft of Memoir: Irvin Weathersby Jr. on truth-telling in a travelogue

The Craft of Memoir: Irvin Weathersby Jr. on truth-telling in a travelogue

‘The goal of art is to seek out something pure and true and to convey it.’ The author of ‘In Open Contempt’ on making sense of history and his own…
July 2, 2025
Putting the ‘I’ in storytelling

Putting the ‘I’ in storytelling

In reporting about psilocybin, Robert Sanchez reveals his own story. Plus: True Story Award, Roy Peter Clark, and the Liang-Zhou Nieman Fellowship
June 27, 2025
While reporting on magic mushrooms, a journalist tries microdosing and shares his own struggles

While reporting on magic mushrooms, a journalist tries microdosing and shares his own struggles

Robert Sanchez of 5280 magazine reports on experiments around psilocybin therapy, while also using first person to tell his own story
June 27, 2025