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Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on "The Good Life"

Annotation Tuesday! Anthony Ronzio of the Bangor Daily News on “The Good Life”

Anthony Ronzio (Credit: Gabor Degre | BDN)Over the past two years the Bangor Daily News, a small-town newspaper in central Maine, has made a name for itself by publishing ambitious…
January 12, 2016
Roger Lowenstein: “I don’t like the word simplify; I prefer the word explain”

Roger Lowenstein: “I don’t like the word simplify; I prefer the word explain”

Roger LowensteinRoger Lowenstein is the author of six nonfiction books, including his latest, American’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve. A former Wall Street Journal reporter, he…
December 11, 2015

Erik Vance: “Scientists are quirky everywhere”

The National Association of Science Writers gave Erik Vance a 2015 Science in Society award for science reporting for his story “Why Nothing Works,” published in Discover magazine, saying his…
December 8, 2015

Amy Ellis Nutt: “Our Stories Choose Us”

Amy Ellis Nutt Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amy Ellis Nutt is the author of three non-fiction books, including the recently released “Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family.” The book…
November 12, 2015
Jacqui Banaszynski: The Importance of Place

Jacqui Banaszynski: The Importance of Place

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jacqui Banaszynski on the role of place in stories
October 30, 2015
Carmen Bugan: Secret Police Records and The Language of Memory

Carmen Bugan: Secret Police Records and The Language of Memory

Romanian poet and author Carmen Bugan discusses the process of creating literary work from personal testimony
October 28, 2015
Michael Paterniti: Projecting Stories

Michael Paterniti: Projecting Stories

Bestselling author and GQ contributor Michael Paterniti shares stories on his reporting travels in Burma and his 'workman-like' attitude toward writing
October 23, 2015

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and “The Things That Carried Him”

This story was published in May 2008, five years into Chris Jones’s career at Esquire. Jones was 35 at the time, and he says it was probably the best time…
September 29, 2015
How to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram

How to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram

Long-form narrative writer Neil Shea finds new storytelling possibilities in short posts on Instagram
September 23, 2015
Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

Sharing the Viewfinder: Instagram as a Medium for Documentary Photography

I’m standing halfway up Hrushevskoho Street on a frosty February morning in Kiev. It’s -13 degrees Celsius, and I’m chain-smoking with my friend and fixer Emine. It makes us feel…
September 16, 2015