Ezra Edelman: “The job of an interviewer is to prompt people to go to a place...
Forty-six minutes into Episode 4 of Ezra Edelman’s epic documentary “O.J. Simpson: Made in America,” the director squares off with Barry Scheck, the defense attorney who discredited–or, at the very...
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“Why’s This So Good?” No. 106: Michael Brick and Ministers in Busted Boomtowns
This is the seventh 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 who loved his work....
View ArticleOf Aretha on vinyl, and Cheever on ink and paper
When I was the Column One editor at the L.A. Times, I used to do a weekly note to readers that really made me feel connected to them. I met the coolest people through it, including a fabulous...
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“Why’s This So Good?” New York Magazine on “One Block” in fast-changing Brooklyn
New York Magazine's "One Block" multimedia story. From the moment you load the page of New York Magazine’s award-winning multimedia story “One Block,” you feel like you’ve been invited to hang out on...
View ArticlePlease: No dancing on the grave of beautiful storytelling (It’s not dead and...
“The best way to tell stories in this world, where so much information is coming at us, actually is video. It conveys so much more information in a much quicker period. So actually the trend helps us...
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“Why’s This So Good?” Tom Junod on Michael Brick and New York Five Years...
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 who loved his work....
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Bowie and Thoreau — now there’s a pair to draw to
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 actual...
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Annotation Tuesday: The shadowy world of “involuntary celibates”
Elliot Rodger, 22, who went on a deadly rampage near a California university, was an "involuntary celibate." Most in the "incel" culture disavowed his actions. AP Photo/California DMV, File Writer...
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“Why’s This So Good?” Charles P. Pierce on Michael Brick and Deadline Writing
This is the ninth 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 who loved his work....
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Celibates and e.e. cummings and “Creep”— a weekly roundup of some favorite...
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 actual...
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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 the Times in 2014 to move...
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“Why’s This So Good?” Michael Brick and Jingo Unchained
This is the tenth of ten stories Storyboard will post from a new collection honoring Michael Brick [see our 5 Questions on the project]. It’s also the longest by far; where all the others are newspaper...
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Musicians who love to write, and writers who love music — a roundup of some...
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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Where Tom Wolfe got his status obsession
Nannies have a higher standing than a nursemaid, since they have the power to impose discipline and manners on the child. But they have a lower standing than a governess, in that they undertake no real...
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Rebecca Nesson: “I like aliveness, whether it’s miserable or whether it’s...
Rebecca Nesson crafted an oral story for the Moth on her marital crisis. Rebecca Nesson Three years ago, Rebecca Nesson thought her marriage was falling apart. During a bitter argument with her...
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Boris, Brexit and Bond (oh, and Tom Wolfe): a few of the week’s favorite things
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! 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 and you’re left wondering if it ever happened. In this...
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Gay Talese: the latest scorecard on the scandals
So I leave the country for a few weeks, and I miss the latest Twitter storm surrounding Gay Talese. The world may have moved on to Pokemon (and by the time you read this, it will no doubt have moved on...
View ArticleDigital longform, and the pitfalls of the “build it and they will come”...
“I don’t know what we were thinking.” “Well, what do you think?” “You tell me. I have no idea.” When Aleksandr Gorbachev decided to research the business models of digital longform publications for his...
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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, natch — and some of it on vinyl or actual...
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