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Author Caroline Paul: "Adventures are simply stories in action"

Author Caroline Paul: “Adventures are simply stories in action”

When the writer Caroline Paul was young, she wanted to be an Olympic athlete. Problem was, she says, she wasn’t amazingly gifted. So she picked a sport that didn’t have…
November 1, 2016
"Wild" author Cheryl Strayed: "bad memoirs are narcissistic; good memoirs are about all of us"

“Wild” author Cheryl Strayed: “bad memoirs are narcissistic; good memoirs are about all of us”

Cheryl Strayed has pretty much won the writers’ lottery: Her memoir “Wild” was a boffo bestseller, picked for Oprah’s book club and translated into dozens of languages. It then  became…
October 25, 2016
5 Questions: The Washington Post's Eli Saslow and "A survivor's life"

5 Questions: The Washington Post’s Eli Saslow and “A survivor’s life”

The Pulitzer winner (and two-time finalist) talks about covering the aftermath of a school shooting a different way: "the truth is obviously so much uglier and so much messier and…
October 20, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Brooke Jarvis and "The Deepest Dig"

Annotation Tuesday! Brooke Jarvis and “The Deepest Dig”

The Seattle-based writer talks about her California Sunday Magazine piece on the "final frontier" of deep-sea mining, and adapting to the freelancing life
October 18, 2016
5(ish) Questions: Charlotte Magazine and the shooting of Keith Scott

5(ish) Questions: Charlotte Magazine and the shooting of Keith Scott

Editor Michael Graff talks about how his small staff refused to be just "the magazine that gives you the best restaurants and places to live" and covered the unrest in…
October 12, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Leah Sottile and "The Man Who Created Bigfoot"

Annotation Tuesday! Leah Sottile and “The Man Who Created Bigfoot”

The writer talks about her Outside magazine story on the cowboy behind the "Zapruder film" for the cryptozoological set -- and why she thinks it's good to be outside the…
October 11, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Brian Kevin and "The Belfast Operation"

Annotation Tuesday! Brian Kevin and “The Belfast Operation”

The Down East writer talks about "omni-multitasking" at a regional magazine, and what it's like reporting in the small towns of Maine
October 4, 2016
Kerouac, Kristofferson and a new generation of journalists who love narrative

Kerouac, Kristofferson and a new generation of journalists who love narrative

Just in time for the weekend, here’s a little list of some of the things I’ve been listening to and reading this week, some of it online — Storyboard included,…
September 30, 2016
5 Questions: Robert Sanchez and "Colorado Springs' Identity Crisis"

5 Questions: Robert Sanchez and “Colorado Springs’ Identity Crisis”

The 5280 magazine writer talks about avoiding caricature in an extreme city and capturing a "sense of place in an authentic way"
September 29, 2016

Annotation Tuesday! Jeff Maysh and “The rise and fall of the Bombshell Bandit”

The writer talks about dealing with unreliable narrators and being drawn to people who live double lives -- including for this piece for BBC News
September 27, 2016