Search results for “the pitch” Showing 343 results Peter Stark and “As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow – First – Chill – Then Stupor – Then the Letting Go –” Peter Stark’s second-person rendering of a hypothermic near-death experience took its 1997 print headline from the closing quatrain of an Emily Dickinson poem that, depending who you ask, is either… February 22, 2018 Finding the story in the parentheses and other adventures with Jeffrey Stern It wasn’t the sensational headline — “The Real-Life Mad Max Who Battled ISIS in a Bulletproof BMW” — that grabbed my attention. It was the next bit.[pq]”Here is a person… February 15, 2018 5(ish) Questions: Bridget Huber and “The Living Disappeared” of Argentina The California Sunday piece unpacks loss and resilience in the aftermath of the country's military dictatorship through the story of one family November 30, 2017 Vice News correspondent Elle Reeve and “Charlottesville: Race and Terror” The 22-minute “Vice News Tonight” documentary “Charlottesville: Race and Terror” provided a chilling look at the white supremacists behind the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August. It… October 24, 2017 Notable Narrative: Nicole Lucas Haimes and “Who Killed Julian Pierce?” The article “Who Killed Julian Pierce?” was unusual on at least three counts. It was the author’s first magazine story. It took nearly 30 years to write. And it came… August 3, 2017 Katherine Boo, Sarah Lyall and Harper Lee: It’s grrl power week on Storyboard A weekly roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure July 28, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Steve Oney and “A Man’s World” (both the song and his new book) The writer talks about how ideas about masculinity have changed over his 40-year career, and how he eerily predicted the rise of Breitbart America July 18, 2017 Notable Narrative: Jason Fagone and “What Bullets Do to Bodies” The writer talks about his Huffington Post Highline profile of a trauma surgeon, and wanting readers to get a “visceral sense of what physically happens inside a person when he’s… June 26, 2017 Notable Narrative: Susan Dominus and “Is an Open Marriage a Happier Marriage?” When Susan Dominus set out to write a story about relationships and romance for The New York Times Magazine, her initial assignment had her talking to couples who have experienced,… June 20, 2017 5(ish) Questions: Josh O’Kane and “The Ballad of Fogarty’s Cove” The word “lament” is a sadly beautiful thing, its layers and meanings distinct, yet entwined. In music, it is a song of loss, of missing someone or something that is… May 9, 2017 Previous 1 … 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 … 35 Next