9-11

Personal stories of 9/11, 25 years later

Personal stories of 9/11, 25 years later

Plus: Sari Botton on the craft of memoir, and what happens when a source becomes the main character
September 11, 2026
Mark Armstrong
How a 9/11 narrative guided a gun violence narrative 22 years later

How a 9/11 narrative guided a gun violence narrative 22 years later

Reporters from The Dallas Morning News pieced together a tick-tock of a deadly mall shooting, starting with "normal aspects of life"
August 25, 2023
Talia Richman
Tracking shards of grief for 20 years, and daring to love your story subjects

Tracking shards of grief for 20 years, and daring to love your story subjects

Jennifer Senior of The Atlantic goes on a quest to find what a friend lost to 9/11 left behind, and delivers a meditation on love and grief
September 10, 2021
Trevor Pyle
A 9/11 survival story: Honoring accuracy and voice in eyewitness accounts

A 9/11 survival story: Honoring accuracy and voice in eyewitness accounts

Writing scholar Roy Peter Clark reprises a cousin's escape story, and finds lessons for writers who help people recount personal stories
September 9, 2021
Roy Peter Clark
"Why's This So Good?" Tom Junod on Michael Brick and New York Five Years After 9/11

“Why’s This So Good?” Tom Junod on Michael Brick and New York Five Years After 9/11

This is the eighth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project], each featuring an introduction by a writer…
June 16, 2016
Tom Junod
Eric Moskowitz resurrects the pre-flight hours of 9/11

Eric Moskowitz resurrects the pre-flight hours of 9/11

Our latest Notable Narrative comes from the Boston Globe project “9/11: 10 years on,” a wide-ranging collection of print stories, slide shows and video. Many news organizations have unveiled impressive…
September 9, 2011
Andrea Pitzer

What we're reading: 9/11 ten years on, bat extinction and a 70-year-old mystery

In our latest roundup of narrative and narrative-ish pieces, we've pulled together stories reflecting on 9/11, researchers dealing with an unstoppable disease, the end of a family fishing dynasty, and…
August 26, 2011
Andrea Pitzer