Search results for “nut grafs” Showing 65 results Exposing what the police and courts wouldn’t — and what society owes in return It’s difficult to find a writer who isn’t haunted by a story. It could have been the quest that couldn’t catch a glint in an editor’s eye. Maybe one that… September 11, 2019 Matthew Pearl and “Into the Shadows” (Filed under: You can’t make this stuff up) The historical novelist talks about his Boston Globe Magazine yarn and how he answered the question, "Who were America's first detectives?" November 28, 2017 Annotation Tuesday! Christopher Solomon and “The Detective of Northern Oddities” For his piece in Outside magazine, the writer talks about the trickiness of reporting on climate change and the importance of pacing: "readers can feel when the story loses its… February 28, 2017 Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English "My best stories attempt to answer an almost psychoanalytic need to address the larger, more philosophic questions about life" July 12, 2016 The 2016 Pulitzers: A Storytelling Treasure Trove Kathryn Schulz of The New Yorker has pulled off a rare double, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing after having earlier won the National Magazine Award in the same category.… April 18, 2016 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 The 2014 Pulitzers: A gap year for features The Pulitzer judges’ decision* not to award a prize in Features Writing on Monday was disappointing but not unprecedented.** The last (and only other) gap occurred 10 years ago, when… April 15, 2014 Storytelling and policy: The Washington Post’s new narrative project The expansive projects that Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron announced today is good news for narrative journalists in two ways: The paper plans to expand the Sunday magazine (we… January 29, 2014 Best of Storyboard 2013 — reader favorites We’ve configured this year’s Best of Storyboard roundup by category* this year, as opposed to ranking them by readership, though we’ll say that in terms of pageviews the Gay Talese/Elon… December 19, 2013 Annotation Tuesday! Eli Saslow and the family con A top reporter and storyteller, Eli Saslow was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing two weeks ago for his story about a struggling swimming pool salesman.Today, in the… April 30, 2013 Previous 1 … 3 4 5 6 7 Next
