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For film week, home movies and drive-ins (and David Foster Wallace on David Lynch)

For film week, home movies and drive-ins (and David Foster Wallace on David Lynch)

It was a lot of fun focusing on movies this week on Storyboard. Each day I tweeted out some of the best-written lines in filmdom — including the best one-word…
September 22, 2017
The big tent that is storytelling: embracing the richness (and beauty) of its diversity

The big tent that is storytelling: embracing the richness (and beauty) of its diversity

It shouldn’t be surprising that storytelling was the focus this week on Storyboard: That’s what we do. But I love the variety of the storytelling on offer. A narrative about…
September 15, 2017
Notable Narrative: The Marshall Project's Maurice Chammah and “The Accusation”

Notable Narrative: The Marshall Project’s Maurice Chammah and “The Accusation”

In the opening of Maurice Chammah’s story “The Accusation,” jointly published by Esquire and The Marshall Project, we meet Katie Spencer Tetz, a 25-year-old woman who learns that her father…
September 12, 2017
An alt-weekly editor steps up to the plate to back a freelancer's controversial story

An alt-weekly editor steps up to the plate to back a freelancer’s controversial story

Like most journalists today, Britni de la Cretaz is accustomed to being on the receiving end of comments from critical readers and opinionated trolls. As a freelance writer who frequently…
September 7, 2017
The late Alex Tizon and "My Family's Slave": his first memory, and his last byline

The late Alex Tizon and “My Family’s Slave”: his first memory, and his last byline

The Atlantic story, published just weeks after his death, drew a firestorm of criticism; a Pulitzer winner and friend examines the craft, and the loss
September 5, 2017
It's Southern Week on Storyboard: Read on for some great regional storytelling

It’s Southern Week on Storyboard: Read on for some great regional storytelling

It was Southern Week here on Storyboard, spotlighting some wonderful regional journalism and writing. It’s been fun tweeting out great lines from famous Southern writers, including this one from William…
September 1, 2017
Monica Hesse and "American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land”

Monica Hesse and “American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land”

The Washington Post reporter talks about what it's like to juggle multiple projects (and genres), and the virtue of capturing the way people talk
August 31, 2017
Love and laughter and Dorothy Parker: sounds like the name of a cool movie, no?

Love and laughter and Dorothy Parker: sounds like the name of a cool movie, no?

Sometimes, when the world is too much with us, we just need a love story or a laugh. This week, Storyboard obliged with lots of both. We talked to the…
August 25, 2017
Neo-Nazis, childhood abuse and even a solemn E.B. White -- here's to better weeks

Neo-Nazis, childhood abuse and even a solemn E.B. White — here’s to better weeks

This has been an unsettling week. Who will forget the look on that one Charlottesville marcher’s face, a terrible echo of the hate seen on other faces as Hitler rose…
August 18, 2017
The journalistic power of empathy: making connections that elevate the writing

The journalistic power of empathy: making connections that elevate the writing

Empathy is one of the greatest gifts a journalist can have. If you come by it naturally, you can actually feel what your subject is feeling, and that can be a…
August 11, 2017