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Discovering Eve Babitz from the opposite coast, and the aural and visual joy...
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, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
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Annotation Tuesday! Leah Sottile and “The Man Who Created Bigfoot”
Just when you think Bigfoot has been analyzed, merchandized and satirized ad nauseam, along comes journalist Leah Sottile and an octogenarian rodeo cowboy named Bob Gimlin, galloping out of the Pacific...
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5(ish) Questions: Charlotte Magazine and the shooting of Keith Scott
Last week on Storyboard, I chatted with Brian Kevin of Down East magazine about a wonderful story that ran in the Maine-based publication last year. He talked about the constant juggling — I’m...
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Dying along with Whitney Houston at the Future of Storytelling Festival
In a gutted museum in East Harlem last weekend, I plunged into arctic waters, went on an African safari, flew like a bird and even experienced the last few minutes of a celebrity’s life. New Yorkers...
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On covering Black Lives Matter, and the white working class
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, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
View ArticleAnnotation Tuesday! Brooke Jarvis and “The Deepest Dig”
Recently, Brooke Jarvis’ byline has seemed to pop up everywhere. I opened “Love and Ruin,” a new anthology of stories from The Atavist, to find a piece on her year working with leprosy patients in...
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5 Questions: The Washington Post’s Eli Saslow and “A survivor’s life”
In a media landscape quite dependent on quick takes on Twitter and videos transmitted by smartphones, Eli Saslow’s byline offers reassurance of the staying power of the written word. We know what...
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Robert Johnson and Dorothy Parker: now *that* would be a dinner party
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, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
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“Wild” author Cheryl Strayed: “bad memoirs are narcissistic; good memoirs are...
Cheryl Strayed has pretty much won the writers’ lottery: Her memoir “Wild” was a boffo bestseller, picked for Oprah’s book club and translated into dozens of languages. It then became a boffo movie,...
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5 Questions: Hanna Rosin and “The Silicon Valley Suicides”
As a young journalist interested in doing in-depth stories, I’m always on the lookout for articles that can help teach me the craft of reporting and writing. But I’ve also watched people I love...
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Finger poppin’ with Horace Silver and saying goodbye to Columbus with Philip...
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, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
View ArticleFrom the Storyboard vaults: Some “ghost” stories for Halloween
In honor of Halloween, here are a few “ghost” stories that got the Storyboard treatment in years past. All treats, no tricks. Enjoy! “Why’s this so good?” No. 33: Michael Paterniti’s painted ghosts...
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Author Caroline Paul: “Adventures are simply stories in action”
When the writer Caroline Paul was young, she wanted to be an Olympic athlete. Problem was, she says, she wasn’t amazingly gifted. So she picked a sport that didn’t have much competition: the luge. At...
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5 Questions: Alex Tizon and “In the Land of Missing Persons”
Every Sunday, a list of the best longform lands in my inbox. There’s a lot to read out there, and The Sunday Longread, curated by Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman, helps narrow it down. When I...
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Learning about writing from Fred Astaire and Beyoncé, and a “Passport” to dread
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, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
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Why’s This So (Damn) Good (and Topical)? David Foster Wallace and “McCain’s...
If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who...
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Shifting the Focus
A swirling pinkish orb, emerging out of the void. Voiceover: “Hundreds of years down the line, who’s going to know who was the president of the United States, or something?” Solar rays over a vast...
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The election of Donald Trump and the death of Leonard Cohen: an intersection
This week I thought I’d depart a little from the regular format, because this wasn’t a normal week. We went to the polls, we elected a billionaire reality-TV star to the presidency, and then to top...
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Old meets new: The power of a Facebook Live experiment with Kodachrome
One day this spring, New York Times reporter Deborah Acosta left her reporting up to serendipity. She’d followed a trail of Kodachrome slides to a huge bag full of striking images, seemingly abandoned...
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Why’s This So Good? Randy Potts and “The Bible Went Down With The Birdie Jean”
I follow the journalist Randy Potts on social media, so I had known for weeks that he was planning to launch “The Bible Went Down With The Birdie Jean,” a serialized, reported memoir about life as the...
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