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Six profiles and a first-person approach give dignity to the many faces of homelessness

Six profiles and a first-person approach give dignity to the many faces of homelessness

By Trevor PyleIn opening paragraphs of her Chicago Reader piece about six deaths in Chicago last year, Katie Prout makes a rare and daring admission: She reveals that she keeps…
April 21, 2023
A new best-of collection of audio storytelling honors narrative podcasting

A new best-of collection of audio storytelling honors narrative podcasting

Julia Barton turned her public radio career to the development of story podcasts and now revives the Storyboard series "Audio Danger"
April 19, 2023
An annotated guide to narrative magic

An annotated guide to narrative magic

Pulitzer-Prize winning feature writer Lane DeGregory shares the techniques behind her vivid storytelling in a new anthology of her stories
April 12, 2023
John Lennon, Jimmy Breslin and (deadline) narrative as the sum of its parts

John Lennon, Jimmy Breslin and (deadline) narrative as the sum of its parts

Narrative Elements 1: A narrative nonfiction writer and teacher starts a series that explores narrative journalism element by element
April 7, 2023
Getting out of your head ~ and out of the way of a true story

Getting out of your head ~ and out of the way of a true story

By Dale KeigerIf you write for a living and stay with it long enough you will accumulate a bulging folder of journeyman’s work. You don’t renounce it and you don’t…
April 6, 2023
2023 Power of Narrative: The investigation and birth of a personal essay

2023 Power of Narrative: The investigation and birth of a personal essay

By Caren CheslerEssayist and poet Hillery Stone lost her 4-year-old dog not long ago. A door was opened. The dog ran out. Several people who tried to steer the dog…
March 24, 2023
‘Good versus good’ stories that unravel complex societal problems

‘Good versus good’ stories that unravel complex societal problems

New Yorker writer Nathan Heller follows a year of change in one San Francisco high school in which there was no clear right or wrong
March 10, 2023
"...cutting the viewer to the bone."

“…cutting the viewer to the bone.”

—Film critic Matt Zoller Seitz on actor Tom Sizemore
March 7, 2023
Reconstructing a fractured life and broken system

Reconstructing a fractured life and broken system

L.A. Times reporter Thomas Curwen traced the life of one schizophrenia sufferer to tell a bigger story of society's challenges with mental health
March 3, 2023
Ukraine coverage: The press rises to cover a grinding war

Ukraine coverage: The press rises to cover a grinding war

By Jacqui BanaszynskiA large property sprawls on the north side of the state highway that runs from mountain cabin in the Washington Cascades to the town where I buy groceries.…
February 23, 2023