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“Why’s this so good?” No. 11: Tom Junod on Mister Rogers and grace

“Why’s this so good?” No. 11: Tom Junod on Mister Rogers and grace

When I was living in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and came back sometime later to see what was left, one of the things I found was the November 1998…
September 13, 2011
Eric Moskowitz resurrects the pre-flight hours of 9/11

Eric Moskowitz resurrects the pre-flight hours of 9/11

Our latest Notable Narrative comes from the Boston Globe project “9/11: 10 years on,” a wide-ranging collection of print stories, slide shows and video. Many news organizations have unveiled impressive…
September 9, 2011
Story, interrupted: why we need new approaches to digital narrative

Story, interrupted: why we need new approaches to digital narrative

The way we tell stories in print has been mostly the same for some time now. Space constraints and graphic layout have made the narrative flow a broken one. With…
September 8, 2011
“Why’s this so good?” No. 10: Ralph Wiley tackles Jim Brown

“Why’s this so good?” No. 10: Ralph Wiley tackles Jim Brown

In “Nobody Else is Jim Brown,” sportswriter Ralph Wiley constructs a profile of perhaps the greatest football player in NFL history, a man so legendary that the word legend actually applies.…
September 6, 2011

The Go-Gos and the future of narrative nonfiction (or why you won’t see any new posts here for a bit)

It’s that time of year, where we take a break for a few days from the world of nonfiction storytelling to hit the beach, eat funnel cakes and read really…
August 29, 2011
“Why’s This So Good?” No. 9: Herbert Muschamp builds a metaphor

“Why’s This So Good?” No. 9: Herbert Muschamp builds a metaphor

What do Silly Putty, Superman and Marilyn Monroe have to do with architecture?Short answer: Nothing.Long answer:  Herbert Muschamp. In 1997, New York Times architecture critic Muschamp traveled to a then…
August 23, 2011
Cynthia Gorney on embracing complexity “while maintaining a sense of justified outrage”

Cynthia Gorney on embracing complexity “while maintaining a sense of justified outrage”

Our latest Editors’ Roundtable looks at Cynthia Gorney's story “Too Young To Wed,” from the June issue of National Geographic. In addition to her work for National Geographic, Gorney is a…
August 19, 2011
August Editors' Roundtable No. 2: National Geographic on the fate of child brides

August Editors’ Roundtable No. 2: National Geographic on the fate of child brides

Our second Roundtable of August examines “Too Young To Wed: The Secret World of Child Brides,” by Cynthia Gorney. Heading to Yemen and the Indian state of Rajasthan, Gorney meets a…
August 18, 2011
“Why's this so good?” No. 8: Katherine Boo takes on the ties that bind

“Why's this so good?” No. 8: Katherine Boo takes on the ties that bind

I only saw my great-aunt a few times – she lived far away – but in my family, she was kind of a legend. She wore purple every day, and kept a stash of…
August 16, 2011

Exhuming a life: Michael Kruse recovers the lost history of Kathryn Norris

What would happen if you disappeared today? What if no one noticed?In our latest Notable Narrative, St. Petersburg Times reporter Michael Kruse collects relics of the life of Kathryn Norris,…
August 12, 2011