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Stories We Loved: Some Favorite Narrative from 2014

Stories We Loved: Some Favorite Narrative from 2014

It’s that time of year when “Best of” lists litter the landscape like pine needles. Here at Storyboard, we decided to do something a little different to commemorate 2014. We…
December 31, 2014
New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding Their Niche

New Print Magazines Are Embracing Narrative and Finding Their Niche

In 2011, as the Arab Spring dawned, young Lebanese journalist Ibrahim Nehme yearned to play a role in the changes sweeping the Middle East. The region’s print media, he believed,…
December 12, 2014

Annotation Tuesday: the Porn Star and Mike Sager

I’ve been thinking about Mike Sager’s story, “The Devil and John Holmes,” for a long time. I first read his chronicle of the famous porn star and the Wonderland murders…
November 25, 2014
Annotation Tuesday! Rebecca Skloot and the wild dogs of New York

Annotation Tuesday! Rebecca Skloot and the wild dogs of New York

Before Rebecca Skloot published the bestselling The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, she wrote magazines stories about science and about animals. You may remember her New York Times magazine piece…
July 22, 2014
Inside the new storytelling collective Deca

Inside the new storytelling collective Deca

The new storytelling collective Deca launched late last week with a Kickstarter campaign and a debut title, “And the City Swallowed Them,” about the murder of a Canadian model in…
June 16, 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
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

The Music of Narrative: Songs from great literary journalism

A story without sound lies too dead on the page. Imagine “Mrs. Kelly’s Monster,” by Jon Franklin, without the pop … pop … pop of the operating-room sensors. Or Tom…
April 17, 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
Storytelling for the win: This year's ASME finalists

Storytelling for the win: This year’s ASME finalists

This year’s National Magazine Award nominations in the features, multimedia, reporting and essay/criticism categories cover conflict, immigration, violence, grief, the abortion wars and more, from a host of talented journalists…
March 28, 2014