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“California is a Place” draws viewers into dizzying, disturbing intimacy with the Golden State

Our latest Notable Narrative is the collected series “California is a Place,” from filmmaker Drea Cooper and photographer Zackary Canepari. Cooper and Canepari have done commercial work and journalism around…
October 29, 2010
Death outside a DC nightclub: TBD uses Storify to create a breaking news narrative

Death outside a DC nightclub: TBD uses Storify to create a breaking news narrative

Can social media serve as source material for compelling news narratives? A number of innovative tools and programs have been developed that have interesting à la carte uses or make for beautiful…
October 18, 2010

Move over Lady Gaga; meet Ron Charles (a.k.a. the Totally Hip Video Book Reviewer)

Has book publishing found its savior? Well, probably not, but in August, The Washington Post's Ron Charles made his small-screen debut in the role of a cranky, self-important book reviewer.…
October 1, 2010
GQ's "An Army of One": The war on terror finds its own Don Quixote

GQ’s "An Army of One": The war on terror finds its own Don Quixote

Though literary nonfiction takes its cues from literary fiction, William Faulkner would struggle to invent a more extreme character than his (possibly inadvertent) namesake Gary Faulkner, the subject of “An…
September 22, 2010

Tom French on zoo stories, narrative nonfiction and the pleasures of playing anthropologist

In 2007, St. Petersburg Times reporter Tom French delivered a nine-part series about Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, which led to the writing of "Zoo Story," published in July. In his book,…
September 14, 2010
Christopher Goffard's "Project 50" and the hard-core homeless of Los Angeles

Christopher Goffard’s "Project 50" and the hard-core homeless of Los Angeles

How do you take people -- ones whom your readers would cross the street to avoid -- and make them compelling enough to follow through a four-part series? Christopher Goffard…
September 9, 2010

USA Today’s Katrina anniversary project: stories from the second line

When clicking across the digital universe, we like new bells and whistles as much as the next Twitter jockey. But with big multimedia projects, we want to feel the bones…
August 24, 2010

What we’re watching, from Korean War veterans to skate punk trespassers and a town that lives off prisons

This round of selections shows the diversity of visual storytelling, from drawings to documentary and interactive immersion. Whether it’s kinetic camera work or the power of a single subject, each…
August 17, 2010
Mary Karr on truth: "the least of my problems as a memoirist, as a writer, is getting my facts right"

Mary Karr on truth: "the least of my problems as a memoirist, as a writer, is getting my facts right"

Author Mary Karr showed up Friday in Grapevine, Texas, in the middle of a thunderstorm to talk about telling the truth. The first keynote speaker at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction…
July 28, 2010
Joe Donnelly on Slake, long-form journalism and launching a vision: "it’s about finding the right rhythm and the right way of presenting it"

Joe Donnelly on Slake, long-form journalism and launching a vision: "it’s about finding the right rhythm and the right way of presenting it"

Last month, we heard rumors from the West Coast of a new magazine devoted to long-form storytelling – a magazine that existed in print only and had no digital presence.…
July 21, 2010