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Following the Idler's Manifesto and listening to the Supremes on a summer's-end day

Following the Idler’s Manifesto and listening to the Supremes on a summer’s-end day

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,…
August 26, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Jon Mooallem’s “The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community”

Annotation Tuesday! Jon Mooallem’s “The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community”

Every once in a while you read a story that feels so authentic and true, you wish you’d written it. That’s how I felt reading Jon Mooallem’s New York Times…
August 23, 2016
5(ish) Questions: Adam Hochschild and Texaco's secret support for Franco in the Spanish Civil War

5(ish) Questions: Adam Hochschild and Texaco’s secret support for Franco in the Spanish Civil War

When Adam Hochschild started researching the Spanish Civil War a few years ago, he knew it was already the subject of hundreds of books and thousands of articles. Trying to…
August 11, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Davy Rothbart and The California Sunday Magazine's "Crowd Source"

Annotation Tuesday! Davy Rothbart and The California Sunday Magazine’s “Crowd Source”

Unlike most of us, Davy Rothbart enjoys being thrown off balance, even if it leaves him uncomfortable or embarrassed — or even humiliated.Davy Rothbart played Selfie Man for Crowds on…
August 2, 2016
Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Notable Narrative: Shane Bauer and “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard”

Shane Bauer is no stranger to prisons. In 2009, when he was a freelance journalist living in Iraqi Kurdistan, Iranian border guards arrested him and two others when they accidentally…
July 21, 2016
Kate Christensen: "It is crucial to avoid grinding axes, settling scores and pointing fingers in your memoir"

Kate Christensen: “It is crucial to avoid grinding axes, settling scores and pointing fingers in your memoir”

Novelist and memoirist Kate Christensen is a bit of a pioneer for me, leading a Lewis and Clark expedition to a new life.Seven years ago, she moved to the White…
July 19, 2016
Digital longform as journalism jetpack, and "Walking While Black"

Digital longform as journalism jetpack, and “Walking While Black”

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,…
July 15, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

Annotation Tuesday! Thomas Curwen and a Big Sur hermit named Jack English

My first memory of reading something by Tom Curwen is like one of those dreams where you wake up and you want to hold onto it, but it slips away…
July 12, 2016
Musicians who love to write, and writers who love music -- a roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure

Musicians who love to write, and writers who love music — a roundup of some favorite things, for your reading and listening pleasure

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,…
July 1, 2016
Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and "The Man in the Woods"

Annotation Tuesday! Ashley Powers and “The Man in the Woods”

Ashley Powers spent the first decade of her career at the Los Angeles Times, working her way up from intern to breaking news reporter to national correspondent. When she left…
June 28, 2016