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Keeping it simple: On plain language

A few years ago an intern did a study of the writing that showed up in our newspaper. He ran our stories through a computer program that measured the reading…
May 8, 2014
National Magazine Award winners + bonus reads

National Magazine Award winners + bonus reads

Five stories that you must stop and read, right now: last night’s winners in the National Magazine Awards for feature writing, reporting, essays, multimedia and fiction (you don’t need us…
May 6, 2014
In praise of the sentence

In praise of the sentence

The first chapter of How to Write a Sentence (and How to Read One), by Stanley Fish, begins with this paragraph:In her book The Writing Life (1989), Annie Dillard tells the story of a…
April 25, 2014
Notable Narrative: David Abel and the Richard family, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing

Notable Narrative: David Abel and the Richard family, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing

Our latest Notable Narrative, "For Richard family, loss and love," is a two-part series by David Abel* of the Boston Globe. Abel spent six months with the Richards, a family of…
April 17, 2014

The 2014 Pulitzers: A gap year for features

The Pulitzer judges’ decision* not to award a prize in Features Writing on Monday was disappointing but not unprecedented.** The last (and only other) gap occurred 10 years ago, when…
April 15, 2014
Storytelling for the win: This year's ASME finalists

Storytelling for the win: This year’s ASME finalists

This year’s National Magazine Award nominations in the features, multimedia, reporting and essay/criticism categories cover conflict, immigration, violence, grief, the abortion wars and more, from a host of talented journalists…
March 28, 2014
Pinned: A boxer, a triple murder, an art mystery, a writing conference and how to get organized

Pinned: A boxer, a triple murder, an art mystery, a writing conference and how to get organized

Pinned this week for your storytelling pleasure: pieces on a jailhouse boxer, an old triple homicide in Texas, a billion dollars’ worth of recovered European art, a one-day writing conference and…
March 21, 2014
Remembering Matthew Power

Remembering Matthew Power

The magazine world suffered a deep loss Monday with the death of writer Matthew Power. An adventure-loving contributor to Harper’s, VQR, Outside, GQ and The Atavist, among others, Power died, reportedly of heat stroke,…
March 11, 2014

Annotation Tuesday! Roger Angell and the pitcher with a major-league case of the yips

Roger Angell has been writing stories about baseball since the year before John F. Kennedy was assassinated. He’s been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1944 and became fiction…
March 11, 2014
Pinned: Elizabeth Kolbert, Gillian Blake, Todd C. Frankel, John Jeremiah Sullivan, storytellers in trouble, a healing cruise and two schools of cliches

Pinned: Elizabeth Kolbert, Gillian Blake, Todd C. Frankel, John Jeremiah Sullivan, storytellers in trouble, a healing cruise and two schools of cliches

For your weekend reading pleasure, items from our Pinterest boards …Recommended Reading:A news photographer, a layoff, a death, and then things got even worse. From the John Woodrow Cox’s short…
March 7, 2014