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Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and "The Man in the Woods"

Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and “The Man in the Woods”

The writer talks about the challenge of re-creating someone who is dead -- and who even in life was unknowable
June 28, 2016

Annotation Tuesday: The shadowy world of “involuntary celibates”

Elliot Rodger, 22, who went on a deadly rampage near a California university, was an “involuntary celibate.” Most in the “incel” culture disavowed his actions. Writer Peter C. Baker’s recent…
June 21, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Jesse Katz goes “Inside the San Quentin Marathon”

Annotation Tuesday! Jesse Katz goes “Inside the San Quentin Marathon”

For many of his 30-plus years in the journalism business, Jesse Katz has been covering crime. Back in the early 1990s, his former employer The Los Angeles Times assigned him…
April 26, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Jill Lepore and "The Prodigal Daughter"

Annotation Tuesday! Jill Lepore and “The Prodigal Daughter”

The historian and New Yorker writer on breaking her rule against writing personal essays and why journalists must use history with caution
April 12, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Antonio Regalado and liquid biopsies

Annotation Tuesday! Antonio Regalado and liquid biopsies

In August 2014 Antonio Regalado introduced an almost heretical approach to cancer treatment to the wider world in a feature he wrote for MIT Technology Review. Regalado, the senior biomedicine…
April 5, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe on “The life and times of Strider Wolf”

Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Schweitzer of the Boston Globe on “The life and times of Strider Wolf”

Sarah Schweitzer has spent almost two decades honing her narrative instincts at The Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times. In April 2015 she was acknowledged by the Pulitzer Prize…
March 14, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! "Criminal" and "The Fifth Suspect"

Annotation Tuesday! “Criminal” and “The Fifth Suspect”

Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer launched “Criminal” in 2014, with producer Eric Mennel. Judge and Spohrer had worked together on “The Story” with Dick Gordon, a public radio program that went…
March 8, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Scoles and “How to Save People from Snakebites”

Annotation Tuesday! Sarah Scoles and “How to Save People from Snakebites”

Science presents particular challenges for narrative writers, like deciphering the often arcane language of scientific studies, or coaxing pithy quotes from scientists accustomed to speaking in academicese, and wary of…
March 1, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Matt Negrin and "Silence in the Favela"

Annotation Tuesday! Matt Negrin and “Silence in the Favela”

Matt Negrin writes politics, not sports. Just 29, the Bloomberg Politics reporter’s first job after college was live-blogging about President Obama for Politico, and he’s also written for ABC’s World News. Two years…
February 16, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Elizabeth Weil and "What Really Happened to Baby Johan?"

Annotation Tuesday! Elizabeth Weil and “What Really Happened to Baby Johan?”

Elizabeth Weil had never written about criminal justice, but when asked to write about a controversial case of whether a baby was killed by his father, she produced the gripping “What…
February 9, 2016