Search results for “top storyboard posts” Showing 227 results “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 “Why’s this so good?” No. 36: Alice Steinbach and one boy’s vision I wish I had come to this assignment when Alice Steinbach was still alive. I could have thanked her one last time for writing “A Boy of Unusual Vision,” a… April 3, 2012 “Why’s this so good?” No. 35: Malcolm Gladwell on ketchup Malcolm Gladwell does so many things well as a feature writer that it’s embarrassing to mention them all. I’ll list a few of them anyway: Malcolm Gladwell is astonishingly quotable.… March 27, 2012 Audio danger: transgressive voices [The fourth installment in an ongoing series of posts by Julia Barton about audio narratives. –Ed.]Great audio, as I’ve previously written, transports us to an imaginative place somewhere between the… March 15, 2012 NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling on golden radio, Yoda parallels and the Robert Krulwich moment [The third installment in an ongoing series of posts by Julia Barton about audio narratives. –Ed.]A ghostly crowd of voices parades across the public radio airwaves every day: politicians and hosts,… March 2, 2012 Previous 1 … 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Next
