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Narrative nonfiction

What is narrative nonfiction?

Narrative nonfiction goes under many names, including creative nonfiction, literary journalism, and fact-based storytelling.

In short form, it’s an alternative to the traditional newspaper pyramid structure (in which, if you lopped off the bottom part of the story, the reader would still have all the key information). With narrative nonfiction you don’t present the main point in the first paragraph—compelling narrative keeps the reader reading to find out what happens, and the journey to the epiphany is half the point. Narrative nonfiction–joining good research with compelling, character-driven storytelling–reads like a novel.

“Creative nonfiction” is misleading in that it implies the facts can be made up. You stick to the truth–the storytelling is fact-based–but you adapt some of the features of fiction (creating a narrative persona, setting scenes, presenting interesting characters, creating the look and feel of a setting, telling a story) to the purposes of journalism.

Basically, it’s fact-based storytelling that makes people want to keep reading. Forms of creative nonfiction include literary journalism, the memoir, the lyric essay, the prose poem, and the nonfiction short.

The Nieman Narrative Digest (see links below) provides links to many excellent newspaper series that take advantage of the form. Among magazines, you can find excellent examples of narrative nonfiction in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, Points of Entry, and River Teeth. After a series of links here you will find a list of classic book-length narrative nonfiction, followed by links to a few exceptionally good short narratives or newspaper series readable online.
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Conferences on longform journalism
aka narrative nonfiction aka literary nonfiction

In some cases you read and listen, as if attending the conferences.
• The Mayborn literary nonfiction conference (Grapevine, Texas)
• The Power of Narrative Conference has convened in several places under several names since its founding at Boston University in 1998. For more info see What is this conference about?
• The Latest in Longform (Nov. 8, 2014 –The Berkeley Narrative Journalism Conference, cosponsored by ASJA Educational Foundation), this new conference brings top editors and writers to Berkeley for a daylong exploration of nonfiction storytelling. Attendance is limited to 75 writers; experience (in any genre) a must. See An intimate new narrative conference, Cali style (Paige Williams, Nieman Storyboard, 6-6-14)
• Vanity Fair’s Bryan Burrough on writing narrative: “people are dying to put down your article” . (Andrea Pitzer’s Nieman Storyboard report from Mayborn Conference, 8-6-10). “There’s only one way I know to get people to the end of the story. You have to have some mystery. There has to be a holdback.”
• Narrative nonfiction events and conferences–is there something here for you? (Andrea Pitzer, Nieman Storyboard, 2-22-10)
• Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference (this link changes often–just google the name of the conference, if this one doesn’t work)
• Learning to Listen (Gina Kolata interviews Rita Charon on narrative medicine program at Columbia, NY Times, 12-29-09)
• See also Writers conferences, workshops, and other learning places (a separate page on Writers and Editors) [Back to Top]

Reports from conferences

Books on the craft of narrative nonfiction,
including useful anthologies

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• Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee. “McPhee has set the standard for the genre of creative nonfiction . . . With humor and aplomb, he recalls anecdotes about how he approached a story: from interviewing and reporting to drafting and revising, to working with editors and publishers . . . [Draft No. 4 is] a well-wrought road map to navigating the twists and turns, thrills and pitfalls, and joys and sorrows of the writer’s journey.” ―Donna Marie Smith, Library Journal
• The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism , ed. Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda
• The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing, by Francis Flaherty (excellent short takes on the architecture, bones, & tendrils of story and character development, especially for journalism)
• Follow the Story: How to Write Successful Nonfiction by James Stewart
• To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction by Phillip Lopate
• Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, by Janet Burroway
• Now Write! Nonfiction: Memoir, Journalism and Creative Nonfiction Exercises from Today’s Best Writers ed. by Sherry Ellis (writing exercises of masters of creative nonfiction)
• Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth, ed. Bill Roorbach (anthology that brings together examples of all three of the main forms in the genre: the literary memoir, the personal essay, and literary journalism)
• Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life, ed. Walt Harrington
• The Elements of Narrative Nonfiction: How to Write and Sell the Novel of True Events by Peter Rubie (published in an earlier version as “Telling the Story: How to Write and Sell Narrative Nonfiction”)
• Keep It Real: Everything You Need to Know About Researching and Writing Creative Nonfiction , by Lee Gutkind (less practically helpful than other books listed here)
• Literary Journalism, ed. Norman Sims and Mark Kramer
• Literary Nonfiction: Learning by Example, ed. Patsy Sims
• The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing, ed. Alice LaPlante (how writers create — for serious writing students and teachers)
• The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft by Robert Boynton
• Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, ed. John Biewen. (Read online Listen (Jay Alison, Afterword to the book). See also: Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production by Jonathan Kern
• The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers, edited by Dinty W. Moore (a handbook on the brief essay form)
• The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrativeby Vivian Gornick (a slim book about writing essays and memoirs, with examples from other writers.
Writes Gornick: “Memoir isn’t what happened but what the writer makes of what happened.”)
• Story Building: Narrative Techniques for News and Feature Writers by Ndaeyo Uko
••• Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction by Jack Hart. An excellent book on the craft of short narrative nonfiction from the former managing editor of the Oregonian, who guided several Pulitzer Prize–winning narratives to publication. “Jack Hart was hands-down the best narrative editor ever to work in newspapers,” writes Jon Franklin
• Telling the Story : How to Write and Sell Narrative Nonfiction by Peter Rubie (a solidly practical book to how to write a narrative nonfiction BOOK and the book proposal that will land an agent to sell it to a publisher, by a former literary agent)
• Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers’ Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, ed. Mark Kramer, Wendy Call (an excellent guide)
• Tell It Slant:Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction by Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola. See especially A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay by Brenda Miller
• The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics by Dennis O’Neil
• To Tell the Truth: Practice and Craft in Narrative Nonfiction by Connie D. Griffin (students like the personal essays that reveal the writers’ internal processes)
• Writing a Book That Makes a Difference by Philip Gerard (principles that apply to both fiction and nonfiction–books that are memorable and change people’s lives)
• Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction by Jon Franklin. A classic guide to identifying the conflict-resolution outline (conflict, rising action, climax, denouement) that makes for a good story and helps you “write smarter.”
• Writing Creative Nonfiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs, ed. Carolyn Forche and Philip Gerard

• Tom Wolfe’s mid-century anthology, The New Journalism, is out of print but available as used books. As one amazon.com reviewer observes: “The predictions in Wolfe’s manifesto haven’t panned out as pervasively as he expected – if anything, today’s writerly writers, by and large, are more gimmicky, narcissistic and insulated than ever – but that’s capital-L Literature’s loss, and the night is young.”

Accuracy, honesty, and truth in narrative nonfiction

Barbara Walraff (Copy Editor, Feb-March 2005)

The Art of Listening (Henning Mankell, NY Times Sunday Book Review, 12-10-11, on what we can learn from the African storytelling tradition. One story ends: ““That’s not a good way to die — before you’ve told the end of your story.”

The Art of Nonfiction: Paris Review Interviews

• Joan Didion, The Art of Nonfiction No. 1 (interviewed by Hilton Als)
• Gay Talese, The Art of Nonfiction No. 2 (interviewed by Katie Roiphe)
• John McPhee, The Art of Nonfiction No. 3 (interviewed by Peter Hessler)
• Janet Malcolm, The Art of Nonfiction No. 4 (interviewed by Katie Roiphe)
• Emmanuel Carrиre, The Art of Nonfiction No. 5 (interviewed by Susannah Hunnewell)
• Paris Review “Writers at Work” Interviews (selections from 1953 on, a gift to the world, and with a single click you can view a manuscript page with the writer’s edits)
• Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews (one volume of many, in an excellent series) [Back to Top]

Byliner, stories about and reactions to:
• Byliner: The Pandora of Nonfiction Reading Adam Clark Estes (The Atlantic, 6-21-11). In this “pro” article, Estes calls Byliner “a discovery engine for the best long form nonfiction writing. Imagine an aggregator like Arts & Letters Daily meets Google News and has a beautifully designed baby.”
• Byliner Sure Is Slick, But Is It Also Stealing? Adam Clark Estes (The Atlantic, 6-22-11)
• Byliner CEO excited about ‘opportunity to discover some great writers’ (Mallary Jean Tenore, Poynter Online, 6-21-11) “When deciding whether to start another book or write magazine stories, [CEO and founder John Tayman] began exploring the space between magazines and books.”
• From Wife-Swapping to Spelunking to Princess Di: Byliner Is What It Promised To Be–“the most viable marriage yet between widespread deep-reading and the Internet browser.” (Michael Humphrey, Forbes 7-1-11).
• Byliner Rolls The Dice On Long-Form (Bill Barol, Forbes.com 6-23-11). “It isn’t limiting itself to curation and aggregation. there are Byliner Originals in ebook form. ” “Read-later capability is limited at the moment to the ReadItLater service. ”
• Byliner aims for the space between books and magazines (Steve Meyers, Poynter 4-20-11)

Can We Humanize the Web? New sites aim for story-telling that connects us. (Wall Street Journal, Marvels, 12-31-11)

CBC Dispatches, Part 1: Sounding out your story. Nieman Storyboard features best tips from the audio storytelling handbook of the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Dispatches weekly radio show of documentaries, essays, interviews and reports from around the world. Followed by (Part 2: Composing with sound and Part 3: Writing for radio.

Characters in narrative nonfiction

Edward Humes (www.edwardhumes.com)
• Exploring Characters in Narrative Nonfiction (YouTube video) Isabel Wilkerson ‘auditioned’ over 1,200 people in order to find the three characters that ultimately shaped her award-winning book, “The Warmth of Other Suns” (2010).
• Jack Hart on “Storycraft” and narrative nonfiction as an American literary form (Nieman Storyboard). Hart responds to the question “A lot of the best narratives have sympathetic but often deeply flawed protagonists. Do you have suggestions on how to keep it real while maintaining the reader’s sympathy for the protagonist?”
• Three R’s of Narrative Nonfiction (Lee Gutkind, Opinionator, NY Times, 12-17-12) “In the end, thorough research and real world exploration followed by fact-checking review shapes and sharpens the story, ensures writer credibility and allows for fair and equitable treatment of the characters involved. And by carefully following the three R process, writers of nonfiction will be prepared to answer the inevitable question: ‘How do you know?'” [Back to Top]

Good explanations and narrative nonfiction resources

from “The Anthills of the Savannah”

■Chris Jones on structuring a mystery, about two stories he wrote for Esquire: The End of Mystery (what happens when a helicopter goes down and the men on the ground try to unscramble the mystery of why) and The Things That Carried Him (the true story behind one soldier’s last trip home)
■The Truth About Fiction vs. Nonfiction (Aminatta Forna, Freeman’s Channel, LitHub) “Where once most first person nonfiction was generally confined to travel writing, narrative journalism and essays, the late 20th century has seen a huge explosion in personal memoir.”
“Don DeLillo once quipped that a fiction writer starts with meaning and manufactures events to represent it; the writer of creative nonfiction starts with events, then derives meaning from them. Gillian Slovo, both a novelist and memoirist, once told me that with nonfiction you always know what your story is, with fiction that isn’t necessarily the case. I think there is truth in both statements. It’s easy to lose sight of your story, meaning the deeper truth you are reaching for in fiction, the more it can be a slippery process. When it comes to nonfiction I discard or store numbers of stories, sometimes because I can’t think of the right way to tell them, but more often because although I know the story in narrative terms, I have not yet arrived at its meaning.”

• Creating Nonfiction by Rachel Toor (The Chronicle of Higher Education, 12-3-07) on what to call this “new” genre
• Creating Scenes: The Yellow Test (Lee Gutkind, The Opinionator, NY Times 8-22-12). “Readers remember information longer — and are more likely to be persuaded by ideas and opinions — when it’s presented to them in scenes. This is why so many TV commercials are narrative.”
• Creative Nonfiction (the magazine, true stories well told–“simply great essays by talented writers,” wrote Library Journal). Dinty W. Moore provides an interesting history of the terms probable origins in Issue #56: A Genre by Any Other Name? The Story Behind “Creative Nonfiction”
• Creative Nonfiction: resources for teachers and students. (Leslie Whidden, Scoop.it!)
• Creative nonfiction (Wikipedia entry and reading list)
• Creative Nonfiction Collective [Go Top]
Program in Narrative Medicine (fortifies clinical practice with the narrative competence to recognize, absorb, metabolize, interpret, and be moved by the stories of illness), College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University

A Q&A with Michael Mooney on elaborate outlining, “The Legend of Chris Kyle,” and the importance of access (Meagan Flynn, Beyond the New Yorker, 8-14-13). About this piece: The Legend of Chris Kyle (Michael J. Mooney, D Magazine, 3-18-13). The deadliest sniper in U.S. history performed near miracles on the battlefield. Then he had to come home.

Searching for Gary Smith (Sarah Perry’s profile in Mayborn Magazine of the great sportswriter — who knows how to live in and then write the story)

Slow Journalism. Out of Eden Walk (a journey through time, journalist Paul Salopek’s planned seven-year “slow journalism” trek, “a solo 21,000-mile walk that will trace the path of human migration from Africa, through the Middle East and Asia, across the Bering Sea to North America, and down the western coast of the Americas to the tip of South America.” See Editor & Publisher account, Journalist Embarks on 7-Year Walk (Nu Yang, 2-4-13). Funded by the National Geographic Society and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. He “will carry as little as possible in his backpack, including notebooks, writing utensils, a camera, and a laptop to file online written, video, and audio dispatches to his editors back home.”

The State of Narrative Nonfiction Writing (the entire Fall 2000 issue of Nieman Reports, with many important articles — click on topics along left side)

A story asks a question (Bill Harley, Song, Story and Culture blog, 12-11-12)

Storyful, a startup that started filtering videoclips about the turmoil in Egypt, is partnering with YouTube’s CitizenTube, YouTube’s news and politics channel, in an experiment in teamwork to “curate” the news knowledgeably. Read Storyful Now: Egypt in Revolt (Nieman Journalism Lab, 2-4-11)

Story, interrupted: why we need new approaches to digital narrative (Pedro Monteiro, Nieman Storyboard 9-8-11). Well-illustrated guide to how narrative may need to adapt on new platforms.

StoryLab (reporters and readers come together to shape stories at the Washington Post)

The 3 Core Elements of Good Storytelling (And Why Your Business Needs Them) (Sean d’Souza, Copyblogger). The sequence, the suspense, and the roller coaster.

Three R’s of Narrative Nonfiction (Lee Gutkind, Opinionator, NY Times, 12-17-12)

Tracing the arc of the narrative (Bill Kirtz, Media Nation, 3-27-12). An excerpt: “Mark Kramer, author of several non-fiction books and editor of Telling True Stories, said that as narrative journalism has developed into a genre, standards have gotten tighter. His often-repeated rules: make nothing up, no ‘tweaking’ time sequences and be straight with sources.”

Transom (an excellent showcase & workshop for New Public Radio). Read How a midcareer print writer mastered the “magic stick” in a 9-week radio Hogwarts (Lee Romney, Nieman Storyboard, 8-8-17) A former Los Angeles Times reporter says the Transom immersive training program changed her (and also made her a stronger narrative writer)

Tricks of the Trade: Narrative Writing (T. DeLene Beeland, reporting on the narration panel at ScienceOnline2013, which she cochaired with David Dobbs).

25 Best True Crime Books as selected by Todd Jensen, whose forensicColleges.net blog provides advice to those considering becoming forensic scientists. See also his 20 Must Read Forensics Books

The Vestigial Tale (Joel Achenbach on Gary Smith and the endangerment of detailed, long-form narrative in the age of Twitter, Washington Post 10-28-09). “In our modern click-and-skim world, there’s dwindling time and space for the expertly crafted narrative.”

What is narrative, anyway? (Chip Scanlan, part of a series on Poynter Online, 9-29-03)

What it’s really like writing true crime (Part 1, Kevin Sullivan on Digesting Case Files).

What’s an essay, what’s journalism? (Richard Gilbert, 2-10-12) Quotes Tom Wolfe on the four techniques narrative journalism requires: 1) Scenes: Present the narrative in a series of scenes and use “ordinary historical narration” as little as possible.
2) Dialogue: Quote copious verbal interplay among characters. Dialogue is the easiest prose to read “and the quickest to reveal character.”
3) Details: The careful use of details that reveal “one’s rank or aspirations, everything from dress and furniture to . . . speech, how one talks to the strong, to the weak, to the sophisticated, to the naпve . . .”
4) POV: Point of view that puts the reader “inside the mind of someone other than the writer.”

***Why’s This So Good? Links to Nieman Storyboard contributors analyzing what makes some of the best narrative nonfiction read so well.

WriterL (a paid-subscription-only listserv for discussing the craft of narrative nonfiction, run by Jon and Lynn Franklin in the 1990s, a conversation that had a good long run but finally ran out of steam).

Writers on Writing (archive of the New York Times column, in which writers explore literary themes)

Writing Creative Nonfiction That Editors Can’t Refuse (Deborah A. Lott, Los Angeles Editors & Writers Group, 2012)

Your Brain on Story: Why Narratives Win Our Hearts and Minds (Michele Wheldon, Pacific-Standard, 4-22-14) “Our craving and connection to story is so much more than a haphazard preference.”

Story structure (narrative arc) and storytelling

“The likes of Jean Auel and Tom Clancy sell books by the millions because they understand story structure, a point that’s lost on the critics who savage their syntax.” ―Jon Franklin
“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.” ― Jonathan Gottschall, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
• Empathy, Neurochemistry, and the Dramatic Arc: Paul Zak at the Future of StoryTelling (Paul Zak, History News Network) “[E]ven the simplest narrative, if it is highly engaging and follows the classic dramatic arc. can evoke powerful empathic responses associated with” the neurochemicals cortisol and oxytocin, responses that “in turn, can translate readily into concrete action,” such as “generous donations to charity.” Stories that “fail to follow the dramatic arc of rising action/climax/denouement—no matter how outwardly happy or pleasant those stories may be—elicit little if any emotional or chemical response” and no action. (That’s why Al Gore’s movie about climate change has so little effect.)
• Reporter Tom French and “the three most beautiful words in the English language: What happens next?” (Kari Howard, Nieman Storyboard, 11-16-17) In a remarkable speech at the recent Power of Storytelling gathering in Romania, the Pulitzer-winning writer is true to the conference’s name. “I love fiction — if there’s fiction writers in the room, I salute you. But there’s no need for those of us who write nonfiction to invent anything. Life defies categorization, it obliterates ideology; day after day, life exceeds invention.”“At the heart of every issue, there’s a human level that leads to the three most beautiful words in the English language: What happens next?”
• The Book He Wasn’t Supposed to Write (Thomas E. Ricks, The Atlantic, 8-22-17) “. after I emailed to him that manuscript, a dual appreciation of Winston Churchill and George Orwell. What I had sent him was exactly the book he had told me not to write. He had warned me, he reminded me, against writing an extended book review that leaned on the weak reed of themes rather than stood on a strong foundation of narrative. I had put the works before the two men, he told me, and that would not do. I saw that if I followed his suggestions and revamped the book, with a new structure that emphasized biography and told the stories of the two men chronologically, the book would be much better. I dug a new foundation, lining it with solid chronology. I wrote a second note to myself at the top of the manuscript: ‘If it is not chronological, why not?’ . That brought the third surprise. Making the text follow the order of events was easier than I had expected—and it made more sense. Anecdotes that I had thought could only go in one place, in a discussion of a theme, actually would fit easily into other places, where they fit in time. In fact, they tended to work better when they appeared in the order in which they had occurred in reality.
• The Origins of Storytelling aka The Desirability of Storytellers) (Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 12-5-17) Among Filipino hunter-gatherers, storytelling is valued more than any other skill, and the best storytellers have the most children.
• X because Y, but Z by Will Rogers (Stanford Storytelling Project), which led me to How Sound: The Back Story to Great Radio Storytelling (PRX.org and Transom.org). How Sound’s previous iteration was Saltcast.
• The Art of Storytelling Show (archive of podcasts of guest speakers–listen online)
• Videos of TED talks about storytelling (from masters of the form)

Story structure
• Naming the dog: The art of narrative structure (Christie Aschwanden, The Open Notebook, 9-14-11) “Most stories, French says, fall into one of five basic narrative structures: boy meets girl, there and back (a journey), us versus them, making it (transcending an obstacle), rescuing the princess from the underworld, and the most popular story of all — the Cinderella tale.”
• The Shape of Story (Christina Wodtke, ElegantHack, 6-6-15). Wonderful graphic depiction of story structure
• Your Brain on Story (Kendall Haven, posted on YouTube 3-3-15; From the mediaX Seminar, Science Storytelling & the Power of Participation; 28 minutes) The mechanism of story: engagement (has an emotional component–emotionally-laden attention–the gateway to influence); participation, transportation (a precursor of empathy and trust–if audience immerse themselves in the story they treat it as if it were their own), relevance (what does this story mean to me?), and meaning or influence (changing attitudes, beliefs, values, knowledge, behavior). Effective storytelling matches the neural demands of the wiring in our heads (neural story net). You either make sense of incoming information, or you ignore it. Haven explains 8 essential elements of a story that control engagement and feed information to neural story net — and determine you you influence audience. “From repositioning a big corporate brand, to crafting a persuasive narrative that explains groundbreaking science research, Haven contends that if a story does not engage the audience quickly, it is unlikely to exert influence in the long run.”
• The clues to a great story (Andrew Stanton, TED talk, 2-2012). Filmmaker Andrew Stanton (“Toy Story,” “WALL-E”) shares what he knows about storytelling — starting at the end and working back to the beginning. “”Your job as a storyteller is to hide the fact that you’re making them work for their meal. https://www.the-essays.com/apa-style-essay born problem solvers. We’re compelled to deduce and to deduct, because that’s what we do in real life. It’s this well-organized absence of information that draws us in. Make the audience put things together. Don’t give them four, give them two plus two. The elements you provide and the order you place them in is crucial to whether you succeed or fail at engaging the audience.” From the transcript.
• The Psychology of What Makes a Great Story (Maria Popova, Brain Pickings) Both a good story and a well-formed argument . can be used as means for convincing another. Yet what they convince of is fundamentally different: arguments convince one of their truth, stories of their lifelikeness. The one verifies by eventual appeal to procedures for establishing formal and empirical proof. The other establishes not truth but verisimilitude.” (Among other interesting points made.)
• Hardwired for Story (YouTube, Sarah-Jane “SJ” Murray, video from TEDx Talks, on “neuro-coupling”) Stories are everywhere. We watch them at the movies, we read them, we share them. They provide us with opportunities to be vulnerable and share with one another. Yet, some stories have a different quality about them, something that empowers them to transcend time and space so that they live on, throughout our lives and beyond. When you look at PowerPoint only the language part of your brain is firing. When you listen to a person telling a good story, your brain mirrors the brain of the storyteller. When a story is well told, two different chemicals are released, associated with stress and with empathy (that make us care). We are far more likely to remember a story than fact alone, but the stories have to be well-told.

• 5 Day Storytelling (provocative tips in PowerPoint, for a Stanford workshop?)
• Telling science stories…wait, what’s a “story”? (Bora Zivkovic, A Blog Around the Clock, 7-13-11). ” In the Inverted Pyramid approach to journalism, the first couple of sentences (the “lede”) provide the next most important information, and so on, with the least important stuff at the end. In many ways, it is the opposite of a narrative – the punch-line goes first, the build-up after. The beauty of the Inverted Pyramid for the writers and editors is that any article can be chopped up and made shorter. You can’t do that with a narrative, where clues can be hidden all along the way, and the grand solution comes close to the end. ”
• Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories (video of a witty short lecture) and the same lecture, visually (on visual.ly)
• Narrative Structures (Rebecca Ray, StoryboardThat, ), writes about narrative (or literary) structures (with diagrams): Five Act structure, types of Shakespearean plays, the plot diagram, and the Hero’s Journey, with links to tons more material.
• How to Structure A Story: The Eight-Point Arc (Ali Hale, Daily Writing Tips)
• Transform Your Story: Expert advice from script consultant Dara Marks (part 1, Kelly Calabrese, NY Castings). See also part 2 (explaining the benefit of making conscious choices and having the character’s old consciousness giving way to new consciousness — a standard part of the character arc, “that a story is more powerful when there is an internal movement of character,”) and part 3. A good discussion.
• How Rebecca Skloot built The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (David Dobbs interview with Skloot, The Open Notebook, 11-22-11) Well worth reading. See also her handwritten notes.
• Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, on “narrating history: ‘looking for that one family, that one person, that one moment that will help hold everything together'”(Nieman Storyboard, 7-16-10)
• Story structure, really reporting Christmas and the problem with the “sacred space” approach to narrative (Nieman Storyboard, by Hank Steuver,author of Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present
• Structure (John McPhee, New Yorker, 1-14-13). Only subscribers can read the whole piece (but you might be able to find it in the library).
• A Simple Way to Create Suspense (Lee Child, Opinionator, NY Times, 12-8-12). This principle applies whether you are writing fiction or narrative nonfiction.
• Weaving a seamless tale from threads of narrative and exposition (Anil Ananthaswamy, The Open Notebook, 4-22-14)
• The essence of story, in a 358-word song (Tommy Tomlinson, Nieman Storyboard, 2-14-12). “Ode to Billie Joe” contains concrete detail, dialogue, suspense, imagery, meaning
• Storyboard 75: The big book of narrative . A wonderful online treasury of some of the most popular posts on Nieman Storyboard. Read and learn. [Back to Top]

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Anthologies of short creative nonfiction

• Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, ed. by Judith Kitchen (excellent examples for creative nonfiction workshops)
• Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present, ed. by Lex Williford and Michael Martone. From memoir to journalism, personal essays to cultural criticism, this anthology brings together works from all genres of creative nonfiction, with pieces by 50 contemporary writers, including Cheryl Strayed, David Sedaris, Barbara Kingsolver.
• In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal, ed. by Mary Paumier Jones and Judith Kitchen
• In Short: A Collection of Brief Creative Nonfiction ed. by Mary Paumier Jones and Judith Kitchen
• The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers, ed Dinty W. Moore

Publications and sites that feature
narrative nonfiction and long-form journalism

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• Byliner (long-form narrative nonficton, old and new). See A discovery engine for narrative nonfiction: Byliner.com launches with high hopes and a sleek site (Lois Beckett, Nieman Journalism Lab
• Creative Nonfiction
• Esquire Magazine (and this link takes you to what the magazine billed its seven greatest stories)
• Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction (MSU Press). A literary journal that explores the boundaries of contemporary and creative nonfiction. Personal essays welcome—including nature, environmental, and travel essays—as well as memoirs, personal critical essays, and literary journalism.
• Georgia Review
• Gangrey.com (small group at St. Petersburg Times, prolonging the life of print journalism, described by Word on the Street as Gangrey.com: Keeping Good Writing Alive
• Granta (UK literary magazine “the magazine of new writing”
• Grantland (sports stories even non-sports-lovers may enjoy
• The Guardian’s ‘The Long Good Read’ (articles hand picked twice daily from the Guardian)
• Kindle Singles: A lifeline for the long short read (Kate Carraway, Globe and Mail, 2-18-12). “Jon Krakauer, of Into Thin Air fame, contributed a Single (via Byliner, a publishing company that only deals with work meant for Singles and others like it, such as Quick Reads and NOOK Snaps), called Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way, which serves as a 75-page extended rant for Krakauer; a fresh, big-bite-sized piece for his gigantic readership, and an A-list journo to validate Amazon’s project, just a few months in.
• Lapham’s Quarterly (a magazine of history and ideas)
• Longform.org (sponsored by Pitt Writers, new and classic nonfiction articles, curated from across the Web)
• Matter. Matter’s Vision for Long-Form Journalism (Felix Salmon, Epicenter, Wired.com 2-24-12). Matter made its $50,000 goal in 38 hours, on Kickstarter.
• Mayborn, the magazine, cousin of the Mayborn Conference
• Mountain Home Magazine, Michael Capuzzo’s free newsprint Pennsylvania magazine, which is gaining readers through good storytelling combined with good illustrations
• Narrative Magazine
• Narratively (local stories courageously told–a different theme is chosen each week and each day one in-depth local story on that theme is published, about noncelebrities, taking advantage of the multimedia advantages of Internet storytelling.
• Narrative Matters (Health Affairs), publishes “policy narratives,” which take a story (or anecdote) and grow it beyond one person to include a big-picture view of the subject, the idea being to put a human face on policy discussions elsewhere in Health Affairs.
• New York Times Magazine
• The New Yorker
• Ploughshares, award-winning poetry, fiction, essays and memoirs
• Outside (active-lifestyle and adventure-travel magazine)
• ProPublica (journalism in the public interest)
• Pulse: Voices from the heart of medicine (catch up on these engrossing stories by reading the anthology: Pulse – The First Year, or check Back Pages for Stories, Poems, Haiku, or Visuals.
• River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative (Where Good Writing Counts and Facts Matter) and the River Teeth blog. “Somebody tells you a story, let’s say, and afterward, you ask,’Is it true?’ And if the answer matters, you’ve got your answer.” — Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
• Soundprint (radio) (the aural equivalent of photojournalism — the evocative experiential documentary)
• Sports Illustrated
• The Sun (Personal. Political. Provocative. Ad-free.)
• Texas Review seeks 1) excellent familiar essays about writers, writing, and literary culture in general; 2) compelling personal narratives, especially memoir and travel writing; 3) innovative creative nonfiction that pushes the boundaries of the genre.
• Tiny Lights (a journey of personal narrative — holds an annual essay contest, offering $1300 in prizes)
• Vanity Fair
• Wired
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E-singles, e-shorts, long-form journalism,
and “read later” bookmarking systems

• $2 a Word? Chump Change! With Byliner and Atavist, Hungry Freelance Writers Seek Out Alternatives To Magazine Work (Emily Witt, New York Observer, 9-13-11). With nonfiction novellas in electronic ink, magazines mimic boutique models of Byliner, Atavist
• An Author’s Guide to the E-Singles Scene (Mark Obbie, ASJA’s The Word blog, 2-27-13)
• Archive of informative stories about e-singles (paidContent), especially Why 2012 was the year of the e-single (Laura Hazard Owen–follow her on Twitter). See also Laura’s How Much Do Kindle Singles Authors Make? and Our Guide To E-Singles (also paidContent). With thanks to Mark Obbie’s page of resources on E-singles .
• Atavist Co-Founder Evan Ratliff On Digital Content Models (Bill Mickey, Folio, 3-21-13)
• Evan Ratliff of The Atavist on the shift to device-agnostic reading (Justin Ellis, Monday Q&A, Nieman Journalism Lab, 9-10-12). The ebook platform is moving into direct sales and exploring a subscription model.
• 5 best longform journalism sites (Yuting Jiang, Vox, 5-5-14)

• Amazon Kindle Singles (“Compelling ideas expressed at their natural length.”) See Amazon Broadens Its Terrain (Leslie Kaufman, NY Times Books, 4-22-13). Editing Kindle Singles, David Blum jump-starts his career, with a Web service that is helping to promote a renaissance of novella-length journalism and fiction, known as e-shorts. Examples include God’s Nobodies by Mark Obbie and Guns (Stephen King on gun control) and Second Son (by thriller writer Lee Child, a Kindle Single bestseller). See Kindle Singles submissions policy

• The Atavist (“Where stories begin” — a storytelling platform for the digital age, enabling original multimedia-enhanced nonfiction stories somewhere between an extended magazine article and a book –publishing original nonfiction and narrative journalism for digital devices like the iPad, iPhone, Kindle, and Nook). Buy their stories for a Kindle/Nook version with less media content or buy the iPad/iPhone version with audio recordings and other multimedia. Read Long-Form Journalism Finds a Home (David Carr, NY Times, 3-27-2011) and The Atavist: How Multimedia Should Be Done in Digital Magazines (Richard McManus, ReadWriteWeb 6-10-11) and Maturing as Publisher and Platform (David Carr, NY Times 5-20-12) and Journalism: Done The Atavist Way (David Wolman, Nieman Reports, Winter 2011). “‘… I liked the idea of being part of something new and something that attempts to reinvigorate the field of long-form journalism by re-engineering the business model that pays for it’ writes Wolman. See Atavist catalog and FAQs about Atavist and Creativist. Creativist is Atavist’s Web-based storytelling platform, on which you can tell your own story, using text, video, audio, and more–you can offer your stories on the Creativist app.

• The Big Roundtable (“Home for writers with true stories”) Accepts and publishes longform narrative nonfiction. “All our content is original.” See interview: How’s it going with The Big Round Table and other narrative ventures, Michael Shapiro? (Paige Williams, Nieman Storyboard, 5-10-13)

• The Browser (Writing Worth Reading — a daily selection of the best features, comment and analysis articles from around the web, plus their own FiveBooks interviews, videos, quotes and more)

• Byliner ( “Think of us as dim sum for hungry minds”) Byliner’s “Read It Later” system saves an article for future reading and catalogs your wants). Adam Clarke Estes calls it “a socially enabled, editor-curated depository of nearly 30,000 long reads” in an Atlantic story (Byliner: The Pandora of Nonfiction Reading, 6-21-11). A site for discovering and sharing old and new worlds of nonfiction. See also A discovery engine for narrative nonfiction: Byliner.com launches with high hopes and a sleek site (Lois Beckett, Nieman Journalism Lab, 6-21-11): “It’s a nonfiction nerd’s fantasy: a database of nearly 30,000 feature stories, meticulously organized, sleekly presented, and fully searchable — by author, by publication, by topic.” “has the “follow me down the rabbit hole” appeal of Wikipedia (one page leads to another, and suddenly you’ve spent an hour on the site), paired with the ambience of a gentleman’s club: elegant design, good service, a certain tone — like the rustle of electronic pages as Serious People Read.” It was conceived as a subsidiary to a publishing platform for long-form journalism, Byliner Originals. See catalog of Byliner originals and writer inquiries and FAQs and reader FAQs . One writer’s story: It’s a Long Article. It’s a Short Book. No, It’s a Byliner E-Book. (John Tayman, Nieman Reports). Byliner published Jon Krakauer’s “Three Cups of Deceit” (an exposй of Greg Mortensen’s Three Cups of Tea). ‘Our idea was to create a new way for writers to be able to tell stories at what had always been considered a financially awkward length.’

• Epic (“As fun as fiction but full of facts”) Extraordinary true stories.

• Gangrey (both writing and podcasts, a site run by young Ben Montgomery of the Tampa News)

• Huffington (Arianna’s new tablet magazine for iPad, “looking to court a higher-end audience willing to pay for weekly, longform journalism”–according to Justin Ellis, The aggregator builds a magazine: The Huffington Post slows itself down with Huffington (Nieman Journalism Lab, 6-14-12). See also The Newsonomics of the shiny, new wrapper (Ken Doctor, Nieman Journalism Lab, 6-21-12). “Publishers are getting more aggressive about repackaging their work into ebooks, iPad magazines, and other new forms, in the hopes of creating something readers will pay for.”

• interviewland (Nieman Stories on Pinterest . Great stories clipped there but you have to belong to Pinterest to read them, it seems.

Longreads: A Digital Renaissance for the Long-form? (David Carr, NY Times, 1-3-11)
• Longreads.com (“Help people find and share the best storytelling.” See Longreads: A Digital Renaissance for the Long-form? (David Carr, NY Times, 1-3-11). Read, for example, A Fish Story by Alison Fairbrother (Washington Monthly, May/June 2012). How an angler and two government bureaucrats may have saved the Atlantic Ocean. The political battle over the disappearance of the menhaden, a silvery, six-inch fish that’s food for larger fish and farmed for omega-3 oils and fertilizer.

• Matter (not quite a magazine, a website, or a publisher — a venue for selling/buying pieces of long-form journalism about technology, medicine, the environment and science and the social and cultural worlds surrounding them, for consumption on any device). See Evan Williams’ Medium acquires long-form journalism site Matter and Kickstarter-backed journalism startup Matter publishes its first story (both by Laura Hazard Owen, paidContent).

• Medium “Medium connects you with voices and perspectives that matter.”
• Three-hit wonder (The Economist, 9-17-16) Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter and later Blogger, in 2012 launched Medium, “a clean, elegant-looking destination for essays, open letters and “big think” pieces. It is trying to become the central hub for writing by the public at large, as YouTube is for amateur videos.
—Medium, praised for its UI and UX (user experience and user interface).
—Here’s one story: The Queer Case of Luke O’Donovan (Meredith Talusan, 9-17-14) O’Donovan is in jail for stabbing five men who beat him and used homophobic slurs. Was it self-defense, or community justice? (Also about objectivity in reporting.)
—• From Medium to Book Deal in 12 Months (Sarah Cooper, The Cooper Review, 9-19-16)

• Narrative.ly (subscribe for The Weekender, get a story a day–great reading)

• Notable Narratives (Nieman Storyboard, with commentary on the stories) [Back to Top]

Read It Later apps for, and online aggregators of, long-form stories:
• A Code of Conduct for Content Aggregators (David Carr, NY Times, 3-11-12)
• Instapaper (“a simple tool to save web pages for reading later” — gives you a Read Later bookmark)
• Longform .

• UI / UX Design Interviews Talking with User Interface & User Experience Designers, collection edited by Frank Rapacciuolo, for medium.com)
• Readability
• ReaditLater (one reading list, wherever you are)

Other storytelling venues include live storytelling such as The Moth (scroll down) and digital and radio storytelling, such as This American Life and Radiolab (see more links below). [Back to Top]

About audio narratives
(including digital and radio storytelling)

Reading these stories is like taking a free workshop in audio narration.
Thanks to Nieman Storyboard (“breaking down story in every medium”) for its
excellent articles, links, and analyses of great stories.
• Out on the Wire: The Storytelling Secrets of the New Masters of Radio by Jessica Abel.
• A Guide to Translating Science to Audio (Aneri Pattani, The Open Notebook, 6-26-18) “Science Friday’s Key to Live Science Radio: Find Guests Who Bring Research to Life.” How it’s done on Science Friday (“Find guests who bring research to life”), Science Vs (“Make interviews fun and irreverent”), and Radiolab (“Keeping things conversational”– putting listeners “inside the experience of the characters”). Listen to Science Friday (Ira Flatow’s wonderful show on NPR); Science VS (Gimlet), and RadioLab (WNYC Studios, New York Public Radio).
• 5(ish) Questions: Texas journalist Krys Boyd and the art of the radio interview (Krys Boyd, Nieman Storyboard, ) The longtime host of “Think” talks about preparing for her daily show, and how radio is a form of oral storytelling — ““People have been talking for a long time about how the medium of radio is destined to go away, and I think that the huge interest among young people in the podcast format proves that’s not true. I think it’s stronger than ever.”
• Publishers experiment with audiobook-only productions (Jenni Laidman, Chicago Tribune, 11-8-17) Hachette is among a growing number of publishers that want to take advantage of the flourishing market for audiobooks by fostering a straight-to-audio revolution that skips books entirely — or publishes the print book and e-book after the audio version. Hachette is among a growing number of publishers that want to take advantage of the flourishing market for audiobooks by fostering a straight-to-audio revolution that skips books entirely — or publishes the print book and e-book after the audio version.
• The 6 traits of great storytelling—in one adorable video (Brad Phillips, Ragan’s PR Daily, 4-19-12). What made this kid’s video go viral? SUCCES (sticky traits): Simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional, stories.
• State of the Human (story podcasts, Stanford Storytelling Project)
• HowSound (The backstory to great radio storytelling). Produced by Transom and PRX. A bi-weekly podcast on radio storytelling produced by Rob Rosenthal for the Public Radio Exchange. From fieldwork and recording techniques to narrative and ethics, HowSound explores the ins-and-outs of radio storytelling. Archive of HowSound podcasts.
• Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, ed. John Biewen. (Read online Listen (Jay Alison, Afterword to the book). See also: Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production by Jonathan Kern.
• The Man Who Saved LBJ (Paul Burka, TexasMonthly, Aug 2000) Harry Middleton made the decision to release Lyndon Johnson’s secret White House recordings. The rest is history. “In 1990, at about the time when biographer Robert Caro was coming out with his second unflattering volume about Johnson, Middleton opted to open to the public an extensive collection of secret recordings of Johnson’s telephone conversations in the White House—even though Johnson himself had decreed that the recordings be embargoed until fifty years after his death. As soon as the first tapes were released in 1993, they were an immediate sensation: a remarkably candid portrait of a master politician at work. As degrading as the Nixon tapes had been, the Johnson tapes were just as uplifting. Network newscasts featured them; historical works analyzed them; C-SPAN radio continues to broadcast them for two hours every Saturday afternoon. “The tapes have helped to reestablish Johnson’s hold on the historical imagination,” says Robert Dallek, the author of a well-respected two-volume biography of Johnson.”
• X because Y, but Z by Will Rogers (Stanford Storytelling Project), which led me to How Sound: The Back Story to Great Radio Storytelling (PRX.org and Transom.org). How Sound’s previous iteration was Saltcast.
• Audio danger: stories from the edge of listening (Julia Barton in the first of several posts in 2012 focused on developments in and examples from the world of audio narratives, Nieman Storyboard 1-4-12). “Writers and video producers live in dread of the wandering eye. Audio producers live for it.” (They want to keep us stuck in our cars, listening for the end of the story. And they do! I am often sitting like a dope listening to my radio in the parking lot.)
• Your Brain on Story: Why Narratives Win Our Hearts and Minds (Michele Wheldon, Pacific-Standard, 4-22-14) “The power of anecdote is so great that it has a momentum in and of itself.” Ira Glass contends, “no matter how boring the facts are,” with a well-told story, “you feel inherently as if you are on a train that has a destination.”
• Digital storytelling, Hurricane Katrina, and using technology with a “narrative purpose”, a Nieman Storyboard interview with USA Today interactives director Joshua Hatch on Stories from the Second Line and the making of Hurricane Katrina: 5 Years Later, a series that combines maps, interactive visuals, video and bare-bones text.
• Audio danger: NPR’s Kelly McEvers on trauma and the calculus of risk . (Julia Barton, Nieman Storyboard, 2-3-12). Stories like the one described here “are one way to slice through the obstacle of listener confusion (and, let’s face it, indifference) when it comes to reports from abroad. “I try to make those personal stories have a larger point, but just to reach that point through personal narratives. People in Dubuque are going to remember that more than a talking head,’ McEvers says.” Reporters like McEvers are rewarded for doing the wrong thing.
• The Audio Drama Directory (helping you find the best in free dramatized audio)
• My Top 10 Audio Dramas (The Podcast Host)
• The top
radio talk shows and podcasts (both good and intelligent, with a smidgeon of TV)
• NPR’s Daniel Zwerdling on golden radio, Yoda parallels and the Robert Krulwich moment (Julia Barton, Nieman Storyboard, 2-3-12, presents Danny Z’s excellent tips on interviewing and editing, with links to excellent examples).
• How to submit story ideas to “This American Life,” and here are four pitches for stories that made it to the show.
• Audio danger: transgressive voices(Julia Barton, Nieman Storyboard, 3-15-12, on shows that don’t quite fit the mold–weird radio)
• Story, interrupted: why we need new approaches to digital narrative (Pedro Monteiro, Nieman Narrative 9-8-11). How we need to explore ways to use new digital platforms to enrich narrative with supplementary text, pictures, maps, videos, interactive activities involving the reader/listener, etc. — and who is doing so.
• CPT Theatre (the audio storytelling arm of Critical Point Theatre). I particularly recommend Why Can’t I Feel My Legs? (starts at minute 22) in which Alex Garretson talks about waking up with no feeling in his legs, then experiencing increasing paralysis, then watching as the medical team tries to figure out why, and how he dealt with the crisis. (“That’s when I called my Mom. She was the one losing the most sleep over it.”)
• Public Radio International’s Lisa Mullins on interviewing for story. Some craft tips for pulling narrative from daily news Q-and-A’s. “A lot of the fear in interviews happens when the interviewee doesn’t know if he or she is giving you want you want,” She tells them before the interview what she might want, then she teases them along and directs them–they get involved in building the story.
• Interview as story: on radio, online and in print More on interviewing as story. “Whether they use full-on storytelling or just crib a few literary devices, interviews have their own narrative arcs and angles. From political drama (think the Frost-Nixon standoff or “The Fog of War”) to Studs Terkel’s cultural layering, interviews create a kind of permanent present-tense experience for viewers.”

• Association of Independents in Radio (AIR)
• Risk (podcasts of Kevin Allison’s live shows). It may be helpful to hear Allison’s online workshop, Intro to Storytelling, a practical, step-by-step guide to brainstorming on, workshopping and presenting oral stories (lifetime access to 2.5 hours of video).
• Serial (the podcast series that started it all, or got it heated up to the point of mass participation)
• Art Of Storytelling Alive And Well In Audio Books (Lynn Neary, Morning Edition, NPR 11-16-10). Audio books as part of a long tradition of oral storytelling, except instead of sitting in a cave listening the tribe may be driving SUVs
• Can We Humanize the Web? New sites, such as Cowbird, aim for story-telling that connects us. (Wall Street Journal, Marvels, 12-31-11)
• Center for Digital Storytelling, a California-based community arts organization rooted in the craft of personal storytelling, with an emphasis on first-person narrative, meaningful workshop processes, and participatory production methods. Newsletter focuses on five core area: Stories of Health, Silence Speaks (stories to fight gender-based violence), Witness Tree (stories of place and environmental change),Immigrant Voices, and Women, Girls, and Leadership.
• Cowbird (a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events and universal themes–see, for example, The Occupy Saga (“On Sept. 17, 2011, a handful of people set up camp in Zuccoti Park and called for others to join them. This is their story.”) “Cowbird is a public library of human experience, offering a simple set of storytelling tools — for free, and without ads.” This, for instance: My Father’s Coat by Cathy de Moll (very brief).
• Digital storytelling revives the art of gossip (Katherine May, Aeon) Messy plots, audience participation and uncertain endings: how digital storytelling revives the ancient art of gossip. “The internet didn’t create this kind of story (Serial): in fact, it’s probably the oldest narrative form of all. This is narrative as a rolling multitude of voices; a story that has no controllable ending, fading instead into a network of other tales told by a network of other people. It is the narrative of everyday life, of friends we know well and not-so-well, and the ways we use their narratives to prop up our own. We know this kind of story as deeply as we know language. This has huge implications for writers. It reveals that we’re not as keen on neat narrative arcs and emotional closure as we thought we were.”
• The Transformation of NPR (Jennifer Dorroh, American Journalism Review Oct/Nov 2008). Long defined by its radio programming, National Public Radio is reinventing itself as a multiplatform force
• Fresh Air (Terry Gross’s in-depth interviews, WHYY)
• Powerful Alzheimer’s narrative nets radio documentary award (Liz Seegert, Covering Health, 12-2-14). See How * Did It Q&A and the 23-minute radio documentary itself: Living Well with Dementia – a personal journey
• A Prairie Home Companion (a live radio variety show hosted by Garrison Keillor, Minnesota Public Radio, stories and more)
• Radio Lab, with Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, is a radio show and podcast weaving stories and science into sound and music-rich documentaries
• Snap Judgment,a themed, weekly NPR storytelling show that presents compelling personal stories
• Storify. This site (combining journalism and social media) lets you create stories using social media, dragging and dropping in narrative order tweets, photos, videos, comments, snippets, etc. Read What Is Storify And Why Did They Raise $2m?. Here’s Storify story of the year 2011: Tracking Journalist Arrests at Occupy Protests Around the Country (Josh Stearns)
• The Story (North Carolina Public Radio, American Public Media)
• Story Salon (Salon.com and The Story)
• Tell Me More
• This American Life (from WBEZ, hosted by Ira Glass). Start listening to one of these as you drive to buy groceries and you’ll find yourself sitting in the parking lot, listening to hear the end of the story.
• Tinsel Tales: NPR Christmas Favorites and Tinsel Tales 2: NPR Christmas Stories (2012; host, Lynn Neary). See also
Tinsel Tales 3: NPR Christmas Stories and Tinsel Tales (Carlos E. Morales, NPR, 11-19-15).
• The Transaction (listeners’ stories about purchases that led to great stories–listen to a few)
• Web of Stories . Watch videos of famous scientists, authors, movie makers and artists telling their stories and be inspired to record and share your own.
• More great radio listening (mostly NPR) [Back to Top]

Multimedia journalism and storytelling

Personal Storytelling Venues

Online venues for true stories and narrative nonfiction

• Spot.Us, Byliner, Atavist Are Showing Freelance Writers the Money (David Cohn, Idea Lab, 6-8-11). “I think gigs or “gigging” will be the way freelancers turn their practice into a career in the future. Instead of pitching story to story, you’ll be working project to project or gig to gig. And that means reporters who work on projects will need representation.” Among places to be spotted:
• Spot.us (community-funded reporting)
• The Atavist. Read also Literary journalism finds new platforms by David L. Ulin (L.A. Times 5-15-11). “Byliner, the Atavist and Virginia Quarterly Review take the form into the future.”
• Byliner. Read also Will Byliner Save Longform Journalism? (Elana Zak, New Media Bistro 5-12-11)
• Longreads. Aggregates (links to) the best long-form stories on the web. See its Community Picks section, plus Best of 2014 (best picks in No. 1 story picks, most popular exclusives, and reporting in four beats: sports, crime, science, and essays). Or follow Longreads picks on Twitter.
• eBuyline
• StoryMarket (“Freelancers: Discover Entrepreneurial Journalism. Showcase your work, bringing editors to you. Sell your original work to publishers a la carte.” (“welcome to the future of content syndication”)
• What is Medium? (Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 8-23-13) The site from Twitter’s co-founders was one year old in 2013, and still mysterious. It pays some writers but not most. See How to Use Medium: The Complete Guide to Medium for Marketers (Kevan Lee, Buffer, 4-2-15), which suggests it is for content marketing.–with articles from short- to long-form, light to deep. See also An Infallible Guide: How You Can Be a Top Medium Writer — Key Learnings From My Experience (Dakota Shane, Medium,1-16-17)
• Cowbird (“a witness to life” — gathers and preserves exceptional stories of human life). Each day Cowbird takes a photo and writes a short story to go with it. You can look these up by category: Curated stories, Most loved, With audio,, Most viewed, etc.. For example, see and hear I Had Never Heard the Word by Merredith Branscombe.
• Human Parts (A community for storytellers. We explore the patchwork of the human condition through experimental personal writing.) On Medium.co
• All Together Now, a national StoryLab Project sponsored by the Center for Digital Storytelling (now called StoryCenter, engages communities and individuals by using first-person stories to increase awareness of civil and human rights. Other projects include Silence Speaks (surfacing first-person narratives of struggle, courage, and transformation and working to ensure that these stories play an instrumental role in promoting gender equality, health, and human rights) and Real Family (sharing surfacing adoption narratives to promote healing and connection–sharing an inclusive perspective of family through story)
• Pulse (voices from the heart of medicine). (Read Los Angeles Times story: When overwhelmed by health policy, take the Pulse of the profession)
• Storytelling, Part 1 (Pat McNees, Writers and Editors blog, 10-10-16) Likeability is important, said this panel of storytellers. So are conflict, voice, gesture, and facial expression.
• Periodicals and sites that feature narrative nonfiction (a/k/a creative nonfiction)
• Corporate and organizational storytelling (links to excellent material on the subject)
• Acts of Witness (Ochberg Society, inviting short, personal essays by reporters and photographers about hurt they experience reporting on trauma, conflict, and human rights violations)
• Folklore and Mythology (electronic texts)
• Aesop’s Fables (Harvard Classics, Bartleby.cm) [Back to Top]

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The Moth was born in small-town Georgia, garnered a cult following in New York City, and then rose to national acclaim with the wildly popular podcast and Peabody Award–winning weekly public radio show The Moth Radio Hour.
• The Moth (True Stories Told Live).
• The Moth Radio Hour (PRX, listen here)
• The Moth (events at different venues)
• Molly Ringwald: ‘For the first time in my life, I found myself consumed by stage fright’ (The Guardian, 8-8-14) Despite acting since she was three, bratpacker Molly Ringwald was daunted when asked to tell a deeply personal story live on stage. She explains how hip New York storytelling group The Moth persuaded her, and why you should see them in London
• Neil Gaiman: why I’m scared of telling stories… and why I love The Moth (Guardian, 8-8-14) “The strange thing about these stories is that none of the tricks we use to gain love and respect work. The tales of how clever we were, how wise, how we won, mostly fail. The practised jokes and witty one-liners crash and burn. Honesty matters. Vulnerability matters. Having a place where the story starts and a place it’s going is also important.”

THE MOTH STORYTELLING SPECIAL (Read online in THE GUARDIAN)
• Sir Paul Nurse: ‘I looked at my birth certificate. That was not my mother’s name’ (The Guardian, 8-8-14). The Nobel prize-winning geneticist revealed his biggest family secret
• How I told my brother I was now a woman… at my father’s funeral (Kimberly Reed, The Guardian, 8-8-14) Reed recalled how her father’s death forced her to reveal her gender reorientation to her brother, her home town and her high school football team
• How I accidentally shot and killed my best friend (Kemp Powers, The Guardian, 8-8-14)
• A Mormon’s guide to dating (Elna Baker, The Guardian, 8-8-14)
• Malcolm Gladwell: how I ruined my best friend’s wedding (Malcolm Gladwell, The Guardian 8-8-14)
• Read the whole collection in The Moth, ed. by Catherine Burns [Back to Top]

Helpful books and tips about storytelling

Excellent online examples of narrative journalism (creative nonfiction)

• You can find links to MANY excellent pieces of literary (narrative) journalism at the Nieman Storyboard site, many examples from which I link to below. Nieman Storyboard has also provided links to all the Notable Narratives from the Nieman Narrative Digest for the years 2006 to 2013.

Scott Allen. Critical Care: The Making of an ICU Nurse (a four-part series in the Boston Globe, October 2005)

Moni Basu. Chaplain Turner’s War (8-part series, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6-22-08). Compelled to serve where the suffering was greatest, he headed to Iraq. He has already lost 14 men. What will become of the rest of his flock?

Barry Bearake. The Day the Sea Came, Part 1 of a long feature about the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, which David Hayes cites as an example, like John Hersey’s Hiroshima, of parallel structure: a number of characters and a single event. Go here for Part 2.

Kelley Benham. Never Let Go (three-part series, by Kelley Benham, Tampa Bay Times, 12-9-12). Micro preemie parents decide: Fight or let go of their extremely premature baby? Part 1 Lost and Found . When a baby is born at the edge of viability, which is the greater act of love: to save her, or to say goodbye? Part 2, The Zero Zone In a neverland of sick babies, the NICU is a place where there is no future or past. Every moment is a fight for existence.; and Part 3, Calculating the Value of a Life. Read about the story: Notable Narrative: What Nieman Storyboard loved about this series.

Joseph Bernstein. Alt-White: How the Breitbart Machine Laundered Racist Hate (BuzzFeedNews, 10-5-17) A cache of documents reveals the truth about Steve Bannon’s alt-right “killing machine.” How Breitbart and Milo smuggled Nazi and white nationalist ideas into the mainstream. See also The beat reporter behind BuzzFeed’s blockbuster alt-right investigation (Matthew Kassel, CJR, 10-17-17)

John Biewen. Married to the Military (American RadioWorks, listen to hour-long radio program or read the transcript)

John Branch. Snow Fall: Avalanche at Tunnel Creek (video), part of a multimedia piece (NY Times, 12-21-12 ), a harrowing story of skiers caught in an avalanche.

[Back to Top] Ian Brown, The Boy in the Moon (Globe & Mail series available online). Brown’s memoir about his relationship with his son, Walker, born with a rare genetic disorder that leaves him profoundly developmentally disabled. In book form, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son is available at a reasonable price through Amazon Canada.

Janet Burroway. Life After Tim (St. Petersburg Times, 12-12-04). Tim shot himself dead after returning from Iraq. His mother Janet Burroway reflects on the life of “a fiercely honourable boy.”

Janet Burroway. My son, my soldier, my sorrow (St. Petersburg Times, 6-13-04). In three essays written over 20 years, a liberal, pacifist mother struggles to understand her conservative son, a proud soldier and member of the NRA.

Rukmini Callimachi, ISIS and the Lonely Young American (Americas, NY Times, 6-27-15)

Roy Peter Clark. Amazing Grace in the Men’s Room (Sunday Journal, St. Petersburg Times, 9-30-07)

Roy Peter Clark. “Three Little Words” (series that ran in the St. Petersburg Times over 29 days in 1996). “Clark worked for two years to piece together this intensely personal family history. Set in the time of AIDS, “Three Little Words” is a tale of trust, betrayal and redemption. The story, which unfolded here and on the pages of the St. Petersburg Times over 29 days, challenges us to reconsider our thoughts about marriage, privacy, public health and sexual identity.”

Dudley Clendenin. The Good Short Life (Opinion piece, Sunday Review, The New York Times 7-9-11). Living with Lou Gehrig’s disease is about life, when you know there’s not much left, writes Clendenin, who plans to end his life before ALS prevents him from doing so. Nieman Storyboard has an interesting Editors’ Roundtable: The New York Times on facing death as well as an interview with the author: Dudley Clendinen on building stories from life and choosing grace in death: “I don’t quibble with fate”

Pamela Coloff. The Innocent Man, Part One and Part Two. During the 25 years that Michael Morton spent wrongfully imprisoned for murdering his wife, he kept three things in mind: Someday he would prove his innocence to their son. Someday he would find out who had killed her. And someday he would understand how this had happened to him.

Joanna Connors. Beyond Rape: A Survivor’s Story (The Cleveland Plain Dealer 5-4-08). Connors investigates her own 1984 rape and reports on it in a story that is part personal essay, part long-form journalism. “We tell stories to connect with each other. We tell our own stories — sometimes just to ourselves — to make sense of the world and our experience in it,” she writes in part 3. “As a reader and a writer, I believe in the power of stories to bring us together and heal. I have asked so many other people to open themselves up and let me tell their stories, all the while withholding my own. I owed this to them.”\

Andrea Curtis. Small Mercies (Toronto Life, December 2005). He was born at three and a half pounds, the length of a squirrel, with no eyelashes or toenails, and pencil-thin legs poking out of a diaper that covered almost his entire torso. He was too small to eat or breath on his own. Too fragile even to be held. Discussed by Bruce Gillespie, Why’s this so good? (Nieman Storyboard, 1-24-12): “a textbook example of how to pace a story for maximum reader engagement that is sure to keep you glued to the page until the very last word.”

Thomas Curwen. Ana’s Story: Isolated by her appearance, she yearned for a place in the world(two-part series in the Los Angeles Times about how facial reconstruction may change the life of Ana Rodarte, whose life has been defined by facial disfigurement caused by neurofibromatosis, 4-4-09)

[Back to Top] Lane DeGregory and Melissa Lyttle. The Girl in the Window (St. Petersburg Times, 7-31-08). The ‘Plant City police found a girl lying in her roach-infested room, naked except for an overflowing diaper. The child, pale and skeletal, communicated only through grunts. She was almost 7 years old.” The story of Danielle, a feral child, deprived of her humanity by a lack of nurturing. With a follow-up story by Lane DeGregory: Three years later, ‘The Girl in the Window’ learns to connect (8-21-11)

Susan Dominus. The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotб (NY Times Magazine, 7-9-15) After a hospital error, two pairs of Colombian identical twins were raised as two pairs of fraternal twins. This is the story of how they found one another — and of what happened next.

Greg Donahue. Porambo (Atavist, 3-28-18) How a fearless journalist who wrote a seminal account of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark, New Jersey, wound up on the wrong side of the law.

Sheri Fink’s story (in two venues, with different titles): The Deadly Choices at Memorial (ProPublica, journalism in the public interest, 8-24-09); Strained by Katrina, a Hospital Faced Deadly Choices (New York Times Magazine, 8-25-09); and the story about the story: An extremely expensive cover story — with a new way of footing the bill by Zachary M. Seward, Nieman Journalism Lab (a collaborative attempt to figure out how quality journalism can survive and thrive in the Internet age). Also of interest: The Deadly Choices at Memorial (letters in response to the Times story).

David Finkel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series, for “explanatory journalism,” Exporting Democracy (about U.S. efforts to bring democracy to Yemen).

FiveThirtyEight: Nate Silver’s Political Calculus (New York Times blog), the first blog Nieman Narrative selected as a Notable Narrative.

Aminatta Forna. The Last Vet (Granta 109: Work, 1-13-10) About Gudush Jalloh, the only working vet in Sierra Leone, who devoted himself to the lives of the city’s street dogs, who drove around at night “rousing the local people into action to save the lives of dogs” (as described on Lit Hub.

Brent Foster and Poul Madsen, Nobody deserves this Hell Hole: Jharia’s fiery mines (The Globe and Mail, 5-8-09, with a story that multimedia greatly improves)

Jon Franklin. Mrs. Kelly’s Monster (Baltimore Sun, 1979) won the first Pulitzer Prize for feature writing. On Nieman Storyboard’s Line by Line, Franklin takes us line by line through his narrative classic, a model of pacing and detail and character.

Thomas French, Angels & Demons (this story in St. Petersburg Times won 1998 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for his detailed and compassionate narrative portrait of a mother and two daughters slain on a Florida vacation, and the three-year investigation into their murders)

Thomas French, Zoo Story. Life. Death. The Paradox of Freedom. (a special, outstanding nine-part series in the St. Petersburg Times, 12-2-07)

Stephen Fried, Cradle to Grave (Part 1) and Part 2 (Philadelphia Magazine, 1-17-08). In the 1960s, a local couple became the most famous bereaved parents in America, as their infants died one after another. This Philadelphia Magazine investigation revealed the deaths were indeed tragic, but perhaps not unexplainable.

Stephen Friedman. Bret, Unbroken (Runner’s World, June 2013–a moving story and a fine example of telling a story in second person). His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running.

Atul Gawande. The Score: How Childbirth Went Industrial (Annals of Medicine, The New Yorker, 10-9-06)

James Glanz. Alley Fighters (New York Times, 3-30-08). In Shite Slums Victory Must Be Won in the Alleys — an example of hard news told as first-person explanatory essay

Christopher Goffard. On the run from everything but each other (Los Angeles Times 5-13-09), young love in flight, which Mark Johnson writes about in “Why’s this so good?” (Nieman Storyboard 1-10-12)

Cynthia Gorney. Chicken-Soup Nation (Annals of Publishing, New Yorker, 10-6-03).

David Grann. The Squid Hunter (A Reporter at Large, The New Yorker, 5-24-04). Can Steve O’Shea capture the sea’s most elusive creature?

David Grann. The Chameleon (Annals of Crime, The New Yorker, 8-11-08). The many lives of Frйdйric Bourdin, a thirty-year-old Frenchman who serially impersonated children. [Back to Top]

Tom Hallman Jr. The Boy Behind the Mask (The Oregonian, 9-30-00). Received 2001 Pulitzer “for his poignant profile of a disfigured 14-year old boy who elects to have life-threatening surgery in an effort to improve his appearance”)

Tom Hallman Jr. Fighting for life on Level 3 (Oregonian, Sept. 21-24, 2003). Hallman takes readers inside the ward where premature babies are tended. To cover this story, he had to first win over the hospital bureaucracy; he then spent nine months “immersion reporting.” Wrote judges for a Missouri School of Journalism award for the series: “The reporting is outstanding; the writing is extraordinary. This is journalism at its highest level.”

Javier C. Hernбndez. Common Core, in 9-Year-Old Eyes (New York Times, 6-14-14). Telling a story partly from a child’s viewpoint brings the concept of Common Core to life (and makes a good case for it).

Meredith Hindley. When Bram Met Walt (Humanities, the magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Nov/Dec 2012). When Bram Stoker (who went on to write Dracula) met Walt Whitman. (Thanks, Barry Yeoman, for pointing this story out.)

Ann Hull and Sue Carlton. Another wild day in the battle over lap dancing (St. Petersburg Times, 12-3-99). Hull and Carlton bring the courtroom to life by showing the parties involved, on both sides of a controversial local issue.

Flora Johnson. The Intelligence Question (Chicago Reader, 5-16-80) Are black people stupid?

Patrick Radden Keefe. How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister (New Yorker, 8-6 and 8-13-18) Astrid Holleeder secretly recorded her brother’s murderous confessions. Will Wim Holleeder exact revenge?

Michael Kruse, A Brevard woman disappeared, but never left home. How could a woman die a block from the beach, surrounded by her neighbors, and not be found for almost 16 months? Nieman Storyboard commentary: Exhuming a life (the lost history of Kathryn Norris)

Thomas Lake. The Way It Should Be (Sports Illustrated, 6-29-09, the story of an athlete’s singular gesture continues to inspire)

Mark Larabee. Clinging to Life—and Whatever Floats (Oregonian, 12-12-07). A dogs-and-human rescue story.

Jacques Leslie. The Last Empire: China’s Pollution Problem Goes Global (Mother Jones, 12-10-07) Can the world survive China’s headlong rush to emulate the American way of life? Leslie combines first-person narrative with straight essay-style writing in this piece. [Back to Top]

Francesca Mari. The Talented Mr. Khater (Texas Monthly, July 2015) When 23-year-old Callie Quinn moved from Texas to Chile, she counted on finding a beautiful country, meaningful work, and interesting friends. She had no idea she’d set off a manhunt for an international con artist.

Norma McCorvey. Norma McCorvey Versus Jane Roe In 1970, a homeless woman pregnant with her third child met with two lawyers at a pizzeria in Dallas. Did it matter, in the end, who Jane Roe really was? Here’s an excerpt of McCorvey’s memoir (I Am Roe: My Life, Roe V. Wade, and Freedom of Choice by McCorvey and Andy Meisler) about how she became Jane Roe. Here’s how she felt after realizing that she would not be able to get an abortion, that she was the “martyr,” if you like, so women after her could get safe, legal ones: “All I had, really, was my anger. My old anger at myself and my brand-new anger at these two women. In my anger, I imagined—no, I knew!—that Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee and all their damn friends were so right and smart and socially advantaged that just by thinking about it they could arrange an abortion for themselves, or win a court case, or do anything else they damn pleased.”

Ben Montgomery, Waveney Ann Moore, and Edmund D. Fountain For Their Own Good (St. Petersburg Times), a story of abuse at The Florida School for Boys, Florida’s home for juvenile delinquents. A Nieman Notable Narrative.
T. Christian Miller and Ken Armstrong. An Unbelievable Story of Rape (Pro Publica and The Marshall Project, 12-16-15) An 18-year-old said she was attacked at knifepoint. Then she said she made it up. That’s where our story begins.
Michael J. Mooney. The Legend of Chris Kyle (D Magazine, 3-18-13). The deadliest sniper in U.S. history performed near miracles on the battlefield. Then he had to come home.

Errol Morris. Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? (The Opinionator, NY Times commentary, 6-19-11). A fascinating exchange between Errol Morris and Tom Van Vleck about the role Van Vleck and Noel Morris played in starting the Internet (part 1 of 5).

Mary Otto. Hidden Hurt (Washington Post 11-9-08). Volunteer health care workers on a remote medical mission spend three days serving uninsured patients who flock to Appalachia for free medical care)

Sonia Nazario. Enrique’s Journey (six-part Los Angeles Times series that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, for “her touching, exhaustively reported story of a Honduran boy’s perilous search for his mother who had migrated to the United States”).

Kevin Pang. His Saving Grace (Chicago Tribune). The kitchen became chef Curtis Duffy’s escape from a turbulent childhood. How cooking rescued him and exacted a price. (“Cooking provided something lacking in Curtis, he’d later realize: a sense of ownership and control, an illustration of cause and effect. Get your hands in the dough, give a damn about something, and watch results bubbling from the oven 12 minutes later.”)

Evan Ratliff. The Mastermind: An Arrogant Way of Killing (Atavist) He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss who became a prized U.S. government asset. The Atavist Magazine presents a story of an elusive criminal kingpin, told in weekly installments. Click on “Start with episode 1.”

Richard Read. The French Fry Connection (Oregonian, 10-18-98). Following one globe-hopping load of Northwest potatoes reveals a lot about the world economic crisis (winner of 1999 Pulitzer for Explanatory Reporting). Brilliant use of narrative to explain economics.

Andrew Rice, The Fall of Niagara Falls. Decades of decay, corruption, and failed get-rich-quick schemes have made the city one of the most intractable disasters in the U.S. Read an interview with Rice about the story on Nieman Storyboard. [Back to Top] [Back to Top] Charles Van Doren. All the Answers. The quiz-show scandals—and the aftermath (New Yorker 7-28-08)

Amy Wallace. What Made This University Researcher Snap? ( Wired, 2-28-11). A University of Alabama scientist gunned down six of her colleagues in 2010. Here’s what made Amy Bishop snap. And here is Hazel Becker’s fine account (Talking Shop) of a session at the Excellence in Journalism in which Amy Wallace and Mark Robinson, Wired’s feature editor, talked about the behind-the-scenes work done to bring the piece to print: “Their presentation was interesting because it exposed the human sides of the two panelists – an accomplished freelancer who was scared to take on the project and an editor who put a lot on the line with his publication to get the story done.”

Allison Washington. I. Girl, Begun: Why my mother raised me as a girl. (Athena Talks, Medium.com, 1-23-17). In four parts. A becoming.

Gene Weingarten. The Peekaboo Paradox (WashPost 1-22-06), about the preschool entertainer, The Great Zucchini. Opinions vary on whether this is great or needs editing. Listen to Bob Edwards’ radio interview with Weingarten about this story and Weingarten’s collection The Fiddler in the Subway: The Story of the World-Class Violinist Who Played for Handouts. . . And Other Virtuoso Performances by America’s Foremost Feature Writer

Michael Weinreb on the Joe Paterno scandal. Growing Up Penn State (Grantland 11-8-11). The end of idealizing sports heroes at State College.

Mary Wiltenburg. Little Bill Clinton: A School Year in the Life of a New American (award winning series in Christian Science Monitor, 2008-2009). In Atlanta’s northeastern suburbs, a refugee community is growing where almost every family is a story of Americans-in-the-making. DeKalb County’s seven-year-old International Community School – a charter school – was founded to bring their children together with native-born kids in a community model that welcomes and celebrates student diversity. This school year, the Monitor is exploring this model through the eyes and experiences of Congolese third-grader Bill Clinton Hadam and the ICS community.

Graeme Wood. The Lost Man (The California Sunday Magazine, 6-7-15) In 1948, a man was found on a beach in South Australia. The mysterious circumstances of his death have captivated generations of true-crime fanatics. Today, one amateur sleuth has come close to solving the case — and upended his life in the process.

Five long reads that stand the test of time (Alyssa Rosenberg’s picks, as described in the Washington Post, 8-12-15):
—Children of Circumstance by Blake Nelson (the New Yorker, 2-14-94)
—Unspeakable Conversations by Harriet McBryde Johnson (New York Times Magazine 2-16-03)
—The Misfit by Judith Thurman (the New Yorker, 7-4-05)
—Rachel Uchitel Is Not a Madam by Lisa Taddeo (New York Magazine, 4-4-10)
—Among the Settlers by Jeffrey Goldberg (the New Yorker, 5-31-04).

The 7 Greatest Stories in the History of Esquire Magazine. in Full (as chosen by the magazine, 11-14-08, and with the magazine’s descriptions):
— “The School” by C .J. Chivers (June 2006) On the first day of school in 2004, a Chechen terrorist group struck the Russian town of Beslan. Targeting children, they took more than eleven hundred hostages. The attack represented a horrifying innovation in human brutality. Here, an extraordinary accounting of the experience of terror in the age of terrorism.
— “The Falling Man” by Tom Junod (Sept. 8, 2009) Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
— “What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?” by Richard Ben Cramer (June 1986) Regarded as perhaps the finest piece of sportswriting on record, the furious saga of Teddy Ballgame — from boy to man and near death — is an unmatchable remembrance for an American icon.
— “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” by Gay Talese (April 1966) “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism — a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction.
— M by John Sack (Esquire, October 1966). Memorable for its famous cover line (“Oh my God–we hit a little girl.”), this legendary account of one company of American soldiers in Fort Dix, New Jersey, who trained for war and who found it in South Vietnam fifty days later.
— “The Last American Hero Is Junior Johnson. Yes!” by Tom Wolfe (March 1965) Now one of America’s most legendary authors, Tom Wolfe broke out onto the national literary scene at age thirty-four with this breathless piece — an early step in the so-called New Journalism, a first reference for the term “good ol’ boy,” a deep breath into the future of the New South.
— “Superman Comes to the Supermarket” by Norman Mailer (November 1960) In November 1960, Norman Mailer first tried his hand at a genre that would come to define his career. This is Mailer’s debut into the world of political journalism, a sprawling classic examining John F. Kennedy.
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Breaking into the fashion industry is extremely difficult, especially if you’re young and inexperienced. It can take years to develop a portfolio and save up enough money to start your own line, and even longer before anyone notices it. There’s no age limit for becoming a successful fashion designer, but you do need to possess technical skills, design knowledge and be able to showcase an individual style, like these 10 famous young fashion designers have.https://www.pinterest.com/powerpoint_templates/architecture-powerpoint-templates/

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen may be known for their role as Michelle Tanner on the TV series Full House, but these young 24-year-olds have made an even bigger splash as successful fashion designers. The twins began their fashion careers when they launched their namesake clothing line for girls ages 4-14 that is sold exclusively at Wal-Mart stores across America. In 2007, the Olsens launched their contemporary collection, called Elizabeth and James, which features vintage-inspired garments and accessories you’d see in their expanding wardrobe. Then, they created The Row, a critically-acclaimed high-end clothing line that launched in 2010. Their newest venture is the stylish and budget-friendly clothing line called Olsenboye that’s available at JCPenney.

Zac Posen: Zac Posen has had a wildly successful career as a young fashion designer. The 30-year-old designer has dressed everyone from Natalie Portman, Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow to Jennifer Lopez. His beautiful, feminine garments and streamlined aesthetics have earned him numerous awards and praise in the fashion industry. Posen received formal fashion design education at Parsons The New School for Design, and graduated from the womenswear degree program at the University of the Arts London. After college, Posen showcased his collection in GenArt’s Fresh Faces in Fashion New York show, which helped launch his career and namesake label at 21 years old.

Cecilia Cassini: Cecilia Cassini is living out her dream of becoming a fashion designer at the tender age of 10. This little fashionista holds the title of the youngest fashion designer in the country. Cassini specializes in designing clothes for young girls that are colorful, chic and have a touch of couture. Her one-of-a-kind dresses, skirts and tops are sold at Fred Segal and on her personal web site. Cassini’s namesake label has garnered national attention from fashion designers, celebrities and the media for her impressive designs and inspiring story of success. Since she was four, Cassini has been cutting and putting together clothes, and learned how to sew by practicing on her very own sewing machine.

Kira Plastinina: Kira Plastinina is a Russian fashion designer, whose high-end line called Kira Plastinina Lublu has had international success. Her clothing line is known for its edgy styles and girly flare that features lots of pinks, prints and metallics. Plastinina’s love for fashion began in childhood, when she started drawing beautiful gowns and designing clothes for her dolls. Kira’s father, Sergei Plastinin, made her designer dreams come true when he funded her very own fashion line at 14 years old, making her the world’s youngest fashion designer at that time. Her first store was opened in Moscow, and now she has more than 120 stores worldwide.

Christian Siriano: Christian Siriano is a young fashion designer whose talent was first showcased on the small screen as a contestant and winner of the fourth season of Project Runway. Winning the televised competition enabled Siriano to start his own label. His clothing line, Christian V. Siriano, debuted at New York Fashion Week in 2009 and his fall 2009 collection was picked up by Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and other specialty stores. Since then, Siriano has collaborated with several labels, including Payless, Victoria’s Secret, Puma and LG Group to create a fashion phone.

Marios Schwab: Marios Schwab is a London-based fashion designer who’s known for his strong attention to detail and clever interpretations of natural forms. The young and exciting designer garnered a great deal of attention for his spring/summer 2008 runway collection that featured garments that looked inside out. Schwab’s craftsmanship is truly unique and constantly evolving as he finds new ways to accentuate the female figure. Schwab studied fashion at the Esmod fashion school in Berlin and completed his MA in womenswear fashion at Central Saint Martins. He launched his own label in 2005 and received critical acclaim for the debuted collection.

Ainsley Hansen: Ainsley Hansen is a famous newcomer within the fashion industry. Following her graduation from the Sydney Institute of Technology, Hansen got a job as a stylist for Australia’s Next Top Model. This young Australian designer launched her collection, called Generic Sameness, at the 2009 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week to glowing reviews. Hansen’s line includes traditional pieces with futuristic flare, which she says is inspired by "the progression of globalization." Her ability to combine international trends with hybrid clothing makes her line truly one of a kind.

Roksanda Ilincic: Roksanda Ilincic may be considered a newcomer in the fashion industry, but her collection is well-known among Londoners and her high-profile clients, such as Kate Hudson, Margherita Missoni and Rosamund Pike. Ilincic is known for her avant-garde designs that are both sensible and glamorous. Ilincic graduated from Central Saint Martins and launched her namesake label in London in 2005. Since then, she’s branched out and tried on different looks, but has always stayed true to her hand-sewn trademark.

Phillip Lim: Phillip Lim is a young fashion designer whose line, 3.1 Phillip Lim, has become an instant success. Lim is known for adding a contemporary twist to everyday classics. His chic and individual styles are created for both men and women. Lim found his way into the fashion industry after quitting a job at Barneys in Beverly Hills and landing an internship with Katayone Adeli. Lim eventually launched his own collection with business partner, Wen Zhou, at the age of 31. In 2005, 3.1 Phillip Lim was debuted at New York Fashion Week and received critical acclaim. Since then, Lim has received numerous awards and years of commercial success.

Geren Lockhart: Geren Lockhart is the mastermind behind her fashion line Geren Ford. Lockhart started her brand in 2002 after traveling the world and seeking influence from the art, music and architecture she witnessed. She is known for creating unique, but functional clothing that’s colorful and chic. Lockhart unexpectedly entered the fashion industry after she designed a pair of pants and discovered her passion for fashion. She left her advertising job to study design at Parsons. Her strong attention to detail and practicality for the modern woman has made Lockhart a favorite among critics and customers.

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I can say that I am a responsible and a hard-working student. Moreover, being a sociable person, I have many friends since I like to communicate with people and get to know new interesting individuals. I enjoy my time at school: it is really nice to study and the students are very friendly and ready to help. The atmosphere cannot but make me want to go there every time. I like to receive and deal with challenging tasks. I am a very enthusiastic student and I think this is a strong point of mine.

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