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Annotation Tuesday! Jeff Maysh and "The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit"

Annotation Tuesday! Jeff Maysh and “The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit”

Longform specialist Jeff Maysh has a penchant for telling genre-breaking stories about people with secret lives. There’s the mom who assumed her daughter’s identity to return to high school; the…
September 27, 2016
Pairing Robert Caro and Public Enemy: Does it get any better than that?

Pairing Robert Caro and Public Enemy: Does it get any better than that?

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 23, 2016
The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

The badass women of the Qur’an: “An Emancipatory Reading”

Want an end-of-summer beach read that’ll turn heads faster than a Burkini ban? Consider Asma Lamrabet’s book, Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading, which has just been translated into English…
September 12, 2016
It's photography week here at Storyboard (including a cool one of Paul Newman)

It’s photography week here at Storyboard (including a cool one of Paul Newman)

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 2, 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
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
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
Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

My first memory of reading something by Tom Curwen is like one of those dreams where you wake up and you want to hold onto it, but it slips away…
July 12, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and "The Man in the Woods"

Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and “The Man in the Woods”

Ashley Powers spent the first decade of her career at the Los Angeles Times, working her way up from intern to breaking news reporter to national correspondent. When she left…
June 28, 2016
Annotation Tuesday: The shadowy world of "involuntary celibates"

Annotation Tuesday: The shadowy world of “involuntary celibates”

Elliot Rodger, 22, who went on a deadly rampage near a California university, was an “involuntary celibate.” Most in the “incel” culture disavowed his actions.Writer Peter C. Baker’s recent work…
June 21, 2016