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Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 2

Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 2

Pamela Colloff's annotated “The Innocent Man” continues today, with the second and final part. (To read Part 1, go here.) The timing couldn't be better. On Monday, the American Society of Magazine…
April 2, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 1

Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 1

In November and December, Texas Monthly's Pamela Colloff wrote a two-part series on the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison in the murder of his…
March 19, 2013

"Why’s this so good?" No. 73: Carol Smith and the cipher in Room 214

In all likelihood, “The Cipher in Room 214” began with a fairly empty notebook. Most stories do, but in this case it probably looked like it was going to stay that…
March 12, 2013
2013 City & Regional Magazine Awards finalists (Part 1: Feature Story)

2013 City & Regional Magazine Awards finalists (Part 1: Feature Story)

The City and Regional Magazine Association and the Missouri School of Journalism this week announced finalists for the 2013 National City and Regional Magazine Awards. Los Angeles logged the most…
March 8, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and "Animals"

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and "Animals"

By now you've probably heard the story: In October 2011, a suicidal man named Terry Thompson uncaged dozens of wild animals that he kept on his farm in Zanesville, Ohio,…
March 5, 2013
Kathryn Miles on tall ships, the 'boxcar' structure, finding the story, reading 'promiscuously' and putting an English Lit degree to work

Kathryn Miles on tall ships, the ‘boxcar’ structure, finding the story, reading ‘promiscuously’ and putting an English Lit degree to work

Our latest Notable Narrative is "Sunk," a detailed narrative of the deadly capsizing of the tall ship HMS Bounty during Hurricane Sandy. Kathryn Miles’ story, in Outside magazine, gave a gripping account of…
February 22, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Ben Ehrenreich on the grim reaper, L.A. style

Annotation Tuesday! Ben Ehrenreich on the grim reaper, L.A. style

The subject of death has proven inexhaustible, from the Greeks to Hamlet to E.B. White's pig. In "The End," Ben Ehrenreich examines The Inevitable from an unexpected postmortem angle, and with a…
February 19, 2013

Annotation Tuesday! Amy Wallace on Garry Shandling

Reading Amy Wallace's profiles is like sitting around your favorite bar with your favorite super-witty friend and talking about people over cocktails: You come for the companionship and vibe, you…
February 5, 2013
Thomas Curwen and the brave young man

Thomas Curwen and the brave young man

Our new Notable Narrative is “A young man’s fateful dance with death,” in which Thomas Curwen of the Los Angeles Times elegantly chronicles 19-year-old Jesús García’s struggle with a brain tumor.…
February 1, 2013

"Why’s this so good?" No. 70: David Ramsey and Lil Wayne

Like the hook of a catchy song, David Ramsey's "I Will Forever Remain Faithful," from the Fall 2008 issue of The Oxford American, lures you in with a promise:1.Complex magazine: What…
January 29, 2013