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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.
- Erika Hayasaki’s newsletter, The Reported Essay, features lessons on freelancing and non-fiction storytelling.
- Many other journalists publish newsletters with recommended non-fiction reads and other wisdom. Among them: Nick Thompson, Hao Nguyen, Tommy Tomlinson, and Mark Armstrong.
- Until June 2024, the hosts of Longform podcast interviewed nonfiction writers about their work. The 585 episodes, spanning 12 years, 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.
