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Pinker, King and Sager on writing

By Louise Kiernan• Short Takes• October 10, 2014

For this weekend’s selections, Storyboard recommends reading about writing; we’re highlighting some recent articles that feature advice from authors whose worlds range from horror to science to journalism. Harvard cognitive scientist, psychologist and dictionary boss Steven Pinker — he’s … Read more

Annotation Tuesday! Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and “If He Hollers Let Him Go”

By Elon Green• Story Annotations• October 7, 2014

Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah and I met recently in her Brooklyn apartment to talk about “If He … Read more

5 Questions for Jill Lepore

By Louise Kiernan• Strictly Q&A• October 6, 2014

No wonder Jill Lepore describes herself as a “code-switcher.” She’s both a prize-winning professor of history at Harvard University and a … Read more

Bringing creativity to complex issues: The Washington Post, New Republic and CIR

By Louise Kiernan• Short Takes• October 3, 2014

This week’s 3 for 2 picks highlight recent work that incorporates elements of creative storytelling to examine complex issues, with standout journalism on national security, criminal justice and the environment. Plus, noses found in a sewer. In a series of … Read more

Best of the best of the best?

By Louise Kiernan• Short Takes• October 2, 2014

Here’s a highly curated list for you. Robert Atwan, the editor of the “Best American Essays” series, has selected for the Publishers Weekly website his top 10 essays since 1950. Atwan is careful to point out that he chose the best … Read more

Barbara Mahany and the spiritual landscape

By Barbara Mahany• Story Craft• October 1, 2014

Editor’s Note: Welcome to the newest installment of “Writing the Book,” an occasional Storyboard feature in which journalists turned authors discuss the challenges of creating their work. In this essay, freelancer and 2013 Nieman affiliate Barbara Mahany explores how she … Read more

Pearls before Breakfast, Reprised

By Louise Kiernan• Short Takes• September 30, 2014

Almost anyone who loves narrative journalism or music or social experiments or who simply believes that children are wiser than adults knows the Gene Weingarten story “Pearls Before Breakfast.” In this Washington Post magazine piece, which won the 2008 … Read more

“The problem of being labelled a confessionalist”

By Louise Kiernan• Short Takes• September 29, 2014

If you’ve read Meghan Daum’s terrific essay in the Sept. 29 New Yorker on her decision to remain childless (one of Storyboard’s most recent weekend picks), you’ll want to take a look at the follow-up … Read more

Catch up on stories from the New Yorker, Chicago Tribune and NPR

By Louise Kiernan• Short Takes• September 26, 2014

Here are Storyboard’s three picks for your reading, viewing and dancing pleasure this weekend: In an essay entitled “Difference Maker: The childless, the parentless, and the Central Sadness,” Meghan Daum writes in the Sept. 29 issue of The … Read more

Finding the Tribe

By Cynthia Graber• From Nieman Reports• September 11, 2014

When Hillary Frank first started producing “The Longest Shortest Time” podcast in 2010, she was going through a rough time herself. A radio producer for more than a decade, she suffered health complications after her daughter was born … Read more