Search results for “power of storytelling” Showing 424 results 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 For Halloween week, supernatural podcasts and the haunting of Joan Didion A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure November 3, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Abbie Gascho Landis and the surprising climate book “Immersion” The writer (and vet) talks about squeezing story from science, and how a book about mussels is also about our tender, tenacious humanity. September 14, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Mandy Len Catron and “How to Fall in Love With Anyone” The author of the viral Modern Love essay in The New York Times follows up with a book about romance -- and the danger of fetishizing love August 22, 2017 How a midcareer print writer mastered the “magic stick” in a 9-week radio Hogwarts Nearly two years ago, I was one of dozens of Los Angeles Times reporters who took a buyout and left the paper. I liked my job almost all the time.… August 8, 2017 In a South African cookbook-memory book, recapturing a life that was lost to apartheid "Huis Kombuis" offers an old-fashioned spin on multimedia storytelling: a collective memoir with lovingly hand-stitched recipes honoring a demolished neighborhood -- and a past that couldn't be destroyed July 20, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Mark Follman and “The True Cost of Gun Violence in America” The Mother Jones reporter talks about his landmark investigation into the staggering price of the firearms epidemic: an estimated $229 billion a year June 29, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Bonnie Ford and “The Promise Rio Couldn’t Keep” As other outlets predicted disaster for the 2016 Olympics water events, the writer for ESPN's Outside the Lines painted a picture more reflective of the lived human experience than a… June 22, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Phoebe Zerwick and “The Last Days of Darryl Hunt” The writer talks about how her reporting on a wrongfully convicted man changed his life -- and how she had to write the ending, however unhappy May 30, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Nathan Thornburgh talks mind-blowing drugs and Anthony Bourdain The co-founder of the unapologetically longform travel-food-politics site Roads & Kingdoms talks about teaming up with the chef-raconteur and reporting while under the influence of the hallucinogen ayahuasca April 27, 2017 Previous 1 … 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 … 43 Next
