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Watch a story 'come to life:' The Big Roundtable's new Open Rehearsal project

Watch a story ‘come to life:’ The Big Roundtable’s new Open Rehearsal project

Editor’s note: The Big Roundtable, a New York-based digital publisher of nonfiction, just launched the Open Rehearsal Project, which allows readers to “watch a story come to life.” The inaugural piece…
June 12, 2014
Five great weekend reads: 2014 CRMA winners

Five great weekend reads: 2014 CRMA winners

The City & Regional Magazine Association announced its latest winners this week. The annual prizes are administered by the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. Five great stories for…
May 23, 2014
"Why's this so good?" No. 92: David Foster Wallace and the view from the Midwest

“Why’s this so good?” No. 92: David Foster Wallace and the view from the Midwest

David Foster Wallace grew up in the Midwest but it was not really his home. Yet in September 2001, he was teaching at Illinois State University and living in Bloomington.…
May 20, 2014
Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic

Annotation Tuesday! Tom Wolfe and radical chic

Tom Wolfe and I met twice, in his Upper East Side home, and to answer the inevitable question, no: He never wore a white suit. Dark blazer, dark pants, no hat.…
May 13, 2014
#crowdsourced: great examples of the write-around

#crowdsourced: great examples of the write-around

Last week, a student asked for notable examples of the write-around, that subgenre in which the journalist had limited to no access with the story subject. The most famous examples…
May 9, 2014
National Magazine Award winners + bonus reads

National Magazine Award winners + bonus reads

Five stories that you must stop and read, right now: last night’s winners in the National Magazine Awards for feature writing, reporting, essays, multimedia and fiction (you don’t need us…
May 6, 2014

Ariel Levy’s personal and impossibly painful New Yorker essay “Thanksgiving in Mongolia”

Levy’s narrative voice is by turn darkly comic, confessional and challenging.
May 6, 2014
Notable Narrative: David Abel and the Richard family, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing

Notable Narrative: David Abel and the Richard family, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing

Our latest Notable Narrative, "For Richard family, loss and love," is a two-part series by David Abel* of the Boston Globe. Abel spent six months with the Richards, a family of…
April 17, 2014
'It's not about the cameras, it's about how you see the world' — and 49 other tips and inspirations from the BU narrative conference

‘It’s not about the cameras, it’s about how you see the world’ — and 49 other tips and inspirations from the BU narrative conference

Fifty takeouts from some of the speakers at last weekend’s Boston University conference on narrative, culled from the Twitter feeds of Lauren Alexander, Alletta Cooper, Cat Cowan, Jessica DuLong, John…
April 8, 2014
Writing the book: Neil Swidey on 'Trapped Under the Sea'

Writing the book: Neil Swidey on ‘Trapped Under the Sea’

I love inspirational quotes from august authors as much as the next writer. But the quote I thought about the most during the long years when I was writing my…
April 3, 2014