Search results for “power of storytelling” Showing 457 results 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 photograph on the cover of Abbie Gascho Landis’ “Immersion” is the first hint that the book is going to be surprising. The image is at once coy and inviting,… September 14, 2017 Love and laughter and Dorothy Parker: sounds like the name of a cool movie, no? Sometimes, when the world is too much with us, we just need a love story or a laugh. This week, Storyboard obliged with lots of both. We talked to the… August 25, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Mandy Len Catron and “How to Fall in Love With Anyone” Perhaps you’ve read that Modern Love essay in The New York Times, the one that zipped around the country along internet tethers and social media synapses in 2015 like contagious… August 22, 2017 Neo-Nazis, childhood abuse and even a solemn E.B. White — here’s to better weeks This has been an unsettling week. Who will forget the look on that one Charlottesville marcher’s face, a terrible echo of the hate seen on other faces as Hitler rose… August 18, 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 “Lolita,” lobsters and David Foster Wallace: Now that’s what we call a party The annual Maine Lobster Festival is underway, so it seemed like a good time to go big on lobsters. Of course, festival organizers might not have been huge fans of David… August 4, 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” Few journalists are more versed in guns and gun violence than Mark Follman. As national affairs editor for Mother Jones, Follman has led a series of landmark investigations into everything… June 29, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Bonnie Ford and “The Promise Rio Couldn’t Keep” The 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics offered a host of memorable storylines: 28-time medal winner Michael Phelps’ final race, Ryan Lochte’s bizarre fabrication of a gunpoint robbery, and the… June 22, 2017 Previous 1 … 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 … 46 Next
