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Rashomon (the ice cream truck version), and a headline-happy dame called Florabel Muir

Rashomon (the ice cream truck version), and a headline-happy dame called Florabel Muir

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
September 9, 2016
The Pulitzer at 100: Michael Parks and the unraveling of apartheid

The Pulitzer at 100: Michael Parks and the unraveling of apartheid

South Africa was boiling. It was 1986, and security forces were cracking down on anti-apartheid activists daily and with brutal force. Black activists were disappearing from the streets. Bombs were…
September 8, 2016
The Pulitzer at 100: Taro Yamasaki and life inside Jackson State Prison

The Pulitzer at 100: Taro Yamasaki and life inside Jackson State Prison

The photojournalist talks about how he got unprecedented access — and images — inside the world's largest walled prison
August 30, 2016
Following the Idler's Manifesto and listening to the Supremes on a summer's-end day

Following the Idler’s Manifesto and listening to the Supremes on a summer’s-end day

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
August 26, 2016

The Pulitzer at 100: Katherine Boo and “Invisible Lives” at group homes

[pq]”Elroy lives here. Tiny, half-blind, mentally retarded, 39-year-old Elroy. To find him, go past the counselor flirting on the phone.”[/pq]If you had been in the Georgetown University cafeteria back in…
August 25, 2016
Detective stories true and fictional, and loving the word "whacked"

Detective stories true and fictional, and loving the word “whacked”

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
August 19, 2016
The Pulitzer at 100: Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman on "Tainted Justice"

The Pulitzer at 100: Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman on “Tainted Justice”

Imagine, if you will, an investigative series in a metropolitan tabloid daily newspaper about renegade narcotics cops and a lying informant, a series that opens with a headline like this:[sidebar…
August 16, 2016
A Pulitzer winner gone far too soon and the "other" Elizabeth Taylor

A Pulitzer winner gone far too soon and the “other” Elizabeth Taylor

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
August 12, 2016
5(ish) Questions: Adam Hochschild and Texaco's secret support for Franco in the Spanish Civil War

5(ish) Questions: Adam Hochschild and Texaco’s secret support for Franco in the Spanish Civil War

When Adam Hochschild started researching the Spanish Civil War a few years ago, he knew it was already the subject of hundreds of books and thousands of articles. Trying to…
August 11, 2016
The Pulitzer at 100: Anthony Shadid, an expert of the human soul

The Pulitzer at 100: Anthony Shadid, an expert of the human soul

It’s June 2003, and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has just been overthrown. “Everybody likes us,” Spec. Stephen Harris, a 20-year-old from Lafayette, Louisiana, tells a Washington Post correspondent while on…
August 9, 2016