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Narrative journalism sites
- The Sunday Long Read sends out a weekly newsletter with links to the week’s best journalism.
- Longreads has a regular newsletter too.
- Nieman Storyboard, run by Harvard’s Nieman Foundation, promotes important conversation about narrative non-fiction, including “Why’s this so good?” dissections.
- Nick Thompson, Hao Nguyen, Tommy Tomlinson, Mark Armstrong all publish newsletters with recommended non-fiction reads.
- Erika Hayasaki’s newsletter, The Reported Essay, features lessons on freelancing and non-fiction storytelling.
- For 12 years, the hosts of Longform podcast talked with nonfiction writers about their work. The podcast has ended but the 585 episodes are still online.
Barry’s favorite stories by others
A running list, updated each December.
100 journalists you should know about
A rotating list, which I try to keep up to date (and keep interesting).
Podcasts that tell stories over multiple episodes
- A Killing in Waikiki (Offshore, Season 1)
- Blind Landing
- Bundyville
- Dolly Parton’s America
- Finding Cleo
- Floodlines
- Missed Fortune
- Nice White Parents
- Radical
- S-Town
- Scam Likely
- Scattered
- Serial, Season 1
- Suspect
- The Blood Calls (Offshore, Season 3)
- The Improvement Association
- The Missionary
- The Other Latif
- Third Squad
- Two Minutes Past Nine
- Uncover: The Village
- Wind of Change
Barry has been active in the stuttering self-help community for three decades. Here’s an article he wrote for The Baffler about how stutterers might think more about transformation, and less about cure.
Here’s a list of work about stuttering by people who stutter. It includes books, essays, poetry, and video.
