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Toolkit: Better writing through poetry + metaphor (bonus: a writing exercise)

Toolkit: Better writing through poetry + metaphor (bonus: a writing exercise)

In case you missed it, Nieman Reports, one of our sister publications, featured a few pieces recently on poetry and metaphor. The discipline and the device serve narrative’s need for…
July 5, 2013
Annotation Tuesday! Leslie Jamison and the imprisoned ultradistance runner

Annotation Tuesday! Leslie Jamison and the imprisoned ultradistance runner

Leslie Jamison‘s “Fog Count,” which ran in the spring issue of The Oxford American, is hard to pin down. Its subject matter is, ostensibly, jailed ultramarathon runner Charlie Engle — whom Jamison…
July 2, 2013

Radio storytelling: When is a story just a story, and when do listeners expect more?

Jay Allison, who produces The Moth Radio Hour and founded Transom.org, once said, “In public radio, our signature is story.”  He entered radio in the 1970s, from the theater. “I thought, ‘Wait a minute —…
June 28, 2013
How'd you find that hijacker story, Brendan Koerner?

How’d you find that hijacker story, Brendan Koerner?

Brendan Koerner‘s new book, The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking, dropped last week to critical acclaim. It tells the story of a…
June 24, 2013
Pinned: Story trailers, a notable narrative, writers on rejection, writers on Twitter, Michael Hastings' tips for young journalists

Pinned: Story trailers, a notable narrative, writers on rejection, writers on Twitter, Michael Hastings’ tips for young journalists

Pinned this week, for your storytelling pleasure: Inspired: Story trailers. Esquire made not one but two (a 46- and 20-second version) for Chris Jones’ “Animals,” a taut narrative about the Zanesville, Ohio,…
June 21, 2013

“Why’s this so good?” No. 79: Joan Didion, Hemingway, and mathematically musical writing

Joan Didion finds herself counting syllables. If this is part of her brilliance, and it is, it’s largely because of who she is as an observer; meticulous but detached, intimate…
June 18, 2013
Whitey Bulger: the Twitter trial narrative, by the Boston Globe's Kevin Cullen

Whitey Bulger: the Twitter trial narrative, by the Boston Globe’s Kevin Cullen

The Boston Globe's Kevin Cullen isn't just live-tweeting the trial of one of the country's most notorious mob figures — he's telling a story. This thread picks up with Monday…
June 17, 2013
Pinned: Dan Zak, 40 Towns, Chimamanda Adichie, TED Radio Hour, writing advice, Walter Lippmann

Pinned: Dan Zak, 40 Towns, Chimamanda Adichie, TED Radio Hour, writing advice, Walter Lippmann

Pinned this week week for your storytelling pleasure:Highly recommended: In schools, the complexity in assigned reading is dropping, NPR reports: “A century ago, students were being assigned books with the complexity of…
June 14, 2013
Storyteller, meet Creatavist

Storyteller, meet Creatavist

You are a journalist with a story to tell and you want a new way to tell it. The old systems feel flat for what you hope to do. Your…
June 13, 2013
"Why's this so good?" No. 78: Eli Saslow and "Into the Lonely Quiet"

“Why’s this so good?” No. 78: Eli Saslow and “Into the Lonely Quiet”

Sunday’s Washington Post carried the kind of story that can leave you limp for days. Rare anymore is the narrative that has such a visceral effect, but Eli Saslow’s piece about Jackie and…
June 10, 2013