Search results for “top storyboard posts” Showing 211 results Jeanne Marie Laskas and Thomas Lake on sportswriting, voice, source love and more (Mayborn 2012, vol. 1) If you were following the activities out of Grapevine, Texas, last weekend you might’ve seen tweets like this one:And this one:And these:Peter Simek of D magazine recapped this year’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction… July 26, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 49: Wendy Brenner and the snake master When the Winter 2005 issue of The Oxford American arrived, I flipped through the pages, glimpsed the reptilian close-ups accompanying Wendy Brenner’s profile of Dean Ripa, creator and caretaker of… July 10, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 48: Burkhard Bilger noodles a catfish The story I want to tell you about, “In the Monster's Maw,” was published in 1997, and that's important. Because in 1997, when Burkhard Bilger went out to Oklahoma for… June 27, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 47: Calvin Trillin and classic Edna Buchanan Where is Edna Buchanan when we need her? Admittedly, the lede on this recent Associated Press story wasn’t half bad:MIAMI — A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of… June 19, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 45: Adam Sternbergh on … walking Let’s start with the headline. Sometimes, when I am trying to headline a piece and my heds are getting more and more punny and convoluted, I gather myself and remember… June 5, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 44: Robert Kurson and the blind man My love affair with narrative nonfiction was in its early stages when I first read Robert Kurson’s “Into the Light,” in the June 2005 edition of Esquire. I was mostly… May 29, 2012 "Why's this so good?" No. 42: Tom Hallman and timeless forgiveness Years ago, the wonderful Walt Harrington came to our newsroom and fired us up. We were at the start of a storytelling revival, trying to find our way back to craft, and… May 15, 2012 "Why’s this so good?" No. 40: Roy Blount Jr. lets Jerry Clower talk Over the years Roy Blount Jr. has written a number of superb magazine articles, one of my favorites being “Knock ’im Out, Jay-ree!” a profile of the great Southern raconteur… May 1, 2012 "Why's this so good?" No. 39: Gay Talese diagnoses Frank Sinatra Just shoot me now.That might be a normal journalist’s reaction to news that the subject of a mega-profile for a magazine cover story has declined to be interviewed for the… April 24, 2012 "Why's this so good?" No. 38: Walt Harrington deconstructs Rita Dove Writing about the writing process isn’t easy, for good reason. Turning words into sentences and sentences into scenes is at heart a craft, yet there’s still a certain amount of… April 17, 2012 Previous 1 … 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 … 22 Next
