http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/fashion/marijuana-etiquette-sending-out-smoke-signals.html?_r=0 This piece compares the social pressures of drinking and smoking marijuana in group settings, and analyzes the changing reception to marijuana use now that it’s become legal in two states. I was surprised by the frankness of this piece: the writer gets several people to admit that they smoke, and even adds that he […]
Archives for February, 2013
Second Long Form Feature
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/03/making-of-pulp-fiction-oral-history Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction Mark Seal In this feature story Mark Seal weaves an oral history of Pulp Fiction. It’s been almost two decades since the movie came out, but Seal does a great job of taking the reader back in time to when Quentin Tarantino wrote the script and Harvey Weinstein […]
Long feature analysis
http://www.pulitzer.org/files/2012/feature_writing/strangerbravestwoman.pdf The Bravest Woman in Seattle By Eli Sanders Published in The Stranger, June 15, 2011 Wow. I really picked it. I figured it would be easy to find a good story by going to the pulitzer site. This story was hard to read. The writer created suspense and a canter of sadness in his […]
Long Feature Analysis 2
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde by Mark Bowden, for Vanityfair http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/12/vanishing-blonde-201012?printable=true¤tPage=1# Rarely have I devoured an article that fast. I am a huge fan of investigation novels, and this story is about a cooperation between a private detective and the Miami PD to find who raped and beat a young blonde woman in 2005. […]
Long Form Feature Analysis
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/when-brain-damage-unlocks-genius-within?single-page-view=true When Brain Damage Unlocks Damage Within Adam Piore This story, which originally appeared in Popular Science, is about the emergence of extraordinary talents or abilities that appear in individuals after brain damage. This article is a good mix of case studies, opinions, and scenes. Unlike news stories, the immediacy of the event is secondary. […]
Profile: Jeff Gold
Jeff Gold toes the rubber on a brisk winter afternoon at PK Park in Eugene, Oregon. His black team issued Nike cleats dig into the dirt as he comes set to deliver a 2-2 pitch. His front leg jerks upward as he tilts his body showing the numbers on the back […]
Feature Article Review
Chaos Theory by Jack McCallum Jack McCallum’s feature story in this weeks Sports Illustrated deal with this season struggles of the Los ANgeles Lakers. McCallum however, doesn’t go at the assignment by just saying what the problems have been. He plays off the Los Angeles theme and gives each problem (player or coach) that the […]
Feature Blog Post
By Haley Martin “Charmed and Dangerous,” By Laura Jacobs http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2013/03/bad-boys-hollywood-alec-baldwin Since this was a piece about a type of character in Hollywood and not a specific person, I like that the writer found a way to incorporate many different actors as examples. It verified her point and showed examples to prove her claims. […]
Long Feature Analysis 1
Born This Way The new weird science of hardwired political identity by Sasha Issenberg for New York magazine http://nymag.com/news/features/liberals-conservatives-2012-4/ Writing about a trend in a way of thinking is not colorful. This feature deals with a trend in social science: the focus on biological determinism in our political identity. It’s a challenge and Issenberg […]
Long Feature Analysis
“Deadly Medicine” –Vanity Fair http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2011/01/deadly-medicine-201101 Leads are the author’s one shot to capture an audience, and putting a handful of facts and statistics in there is risky. The authors of the article gave many numbers to the reader to see the magnitude of the situation almost to shock them. In this case, it worked. […]