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Steve Almond and "Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country"

Steve Almond and “Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country”

In a collection of essays, the writer argues that stories matter, and bad stories lead to bad outcomes
May 3, 2018
5(ish) Questions for Douglas Haynes and "Every Day We Live Is the Future"

5(ish) Questions for Douglas Haynes and “Every Day We Live Is the Future”

The author spent nearly 10 years on his project to show climate change in the extreme micro, telling the stories of two Nicaraguan women
April 24, 2018
The story ideas Mother Jones' managing editor wants to see

The story ideas Mother Jones’ managing editor wants to see

The magazine is known for its hard-hitting investigations, but Ian Gordon says, “We write so much about bad actors that we're always looking for people to bring some levity to…
April 17, 2018

“The Sun specializes in short items unlikely to tax the mental capacities of its target audience: one-paragraph news articles, one-sentence paragraphs, one-word sentences.”

—Sarah Lyall, “The Anglo Files”
April 11, 2018
The New Yorker's "Lost Giant of American Literature" and the prism of race

The New Yorker’s “Lost Giant of American Literature” and the prism of race

In both the first novel by William Melvin Kelley and recent article by Kathryn Schulz, the story of blacks is told by whites
April 5, 2018
The Power of Narrative conference captures the #MeToo zeitgeist

The Power of Narrative conference captures the #MeToo zeitgeist

With writers like Roxane Gay, the Globe's Sacha Pfeiffer and The New York Times' Emily Steel, the yearly gathering focused on the uncomfortable truths of sexual abuse
March 29, 2018
Pacific Standard's executive editor shares some do's and don'ts on pitching stories

Pacific Standard’s executive editor shares some do’s and don’ts on pitching stories

Jennifer Sahn also mounts a defense of the overwhelmed editor, and why you might not hear back right away when you email
March 6, 2018

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, not the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.”

—Ecclesiastes 9:11, King James Version
March 1, 2018
The thing with feathers: Burkhard Bilger and his haute-couture "plumassier"

The thing with feathers: Burkhard Bilger and his haute-couture “plumassier”

In his profile of a fashion creative who works exclusively with feathers, The New Yorker reporter shows off his own plumage in the beautiful writing
February 27, 2018
Peter Stark and “As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow – First – Chill – Then Stupor – Then the Letting Go –”

Peter Stark and “As Freezing Persons Recollect the Snow – First – Chill – Then Stupor – Then the Letting Go –”

Twenty years on, this wonderful second-person narrative about hypothermia, a writing tour de force, is still one of Outside magazine's most-read stories
February 22, 2018