Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede anthology
Vintage, $29.99 pb, 249 pp
Personalities
Stories That Want To Be Told is an oddly flat title for this stimulating anthology. Most of its contents are stories that need to be told. Even those that do not quite succeed in becoming more than their authors’ ‘passion projects’ are likely to leave readers better informed and more curious about little-known facets of today’s world.
This is testament to the technical success of an initiative by the Judith Neilson Institute, in partnership with Copyright Agency and Penguin Random House, to sponsor early or mid-career journalists to report in depth on topics of their choice while being mentored by veteran colleagues.
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Stories That Want To Be Told: The Long Lede anthology
by Arlie Alizzi et al.
Vintage, $29.99 pb, 249 pp
Comment (1)
Most essential truths can be summarized in a handful of paragraphs, and like meetings where the primary purpose is to remind you of how important the chair of the meeting is, much long-form journalism is an exercise in showing you how learned the author is rather than enlightening the reader.