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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

The historian talks about smuggling an investigative sense of urgency—the feeling that there's something hidden that we ought to know—into the past
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 best stories attempt to answer an almost psychoanalytic need to address the larger, more philosophic questions about life"
July 12, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and "The Man in the Woods"

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

The writer talks about the challenge of re-creating someone who is dead -- and who even in life was unknowable
June 28, 2016

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…
June 21, 2016
Bowie and Thoreau -- now there's a pair to draw to

Bowie and Thoreau — now there’s a pair to draw to

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,…
June 17, 2016

Please: No dancing on the grave of beautiful storytelling (It’s not dead and never will be)

“The best way to tell stories in this world, where so much information is coming at us, actually is video. It conveys so much more information in a much quicker…
June 15, 2016
5 Questions with: Ben Montgomery on Michael Brick and "Everyone Leaves Behind a Name"

5 Questions with: Ben Montgomery on Michael Brick and “Everyone Leaves Behind a Name”

Perhaps as much as any modern journalist, Michael Brick brought the style of Ben Hecht’s “A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago” into the 21st century newsroom. Hecht made the…
May 10, 2016
From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on "Missing"

From Esquire Classic: Tom Junod on “Missing”

Tiffany Whitton was last seen on video surveillance footage from a Marietta, Georgia, Walmart one night in September 2013. The video shows the twenty-six-year-old woman intoxicated and shoplifting; with her…
May 6, 2016
The Power of Oral History as Journalism

The Power of Oral History as Journalism

First-person reports about Bill Cosby and Chernobyl bring new attention to an old form of storytelling
May 5, 2016