Marci Alboher, who authors the Shifting Careers blog for the New York Times has been running a series in which she “glean[s] useful career skills from attending more arts and cultural events.” Giving a shout-out to A Storied Career as evidence that it’s “well established that being a good storyteller … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Are Stories Not Respectable in Art?
In a review on the Minnesota Artists (MNartists.org), art critic Ann Klefstad reflects on the “victorious return of story to art, a triumph evidenced by the narrative-rich work of the four McKnight Fellows on view at the MCAD Gallery” (which runs for just a few more days, though Aug. 10). … Continue reading
A Feast of Memoirs
The August issue of O magazine offers “O’s Memoir Feast,” eight “riveting true stories” introduced with these words: Tell me a story. Tell me your story. … Okay, talk to me, tell me who you really are. This is what we feel when we sit down to read a memoir. … Continue reading
Showing the World What’s Possible — One Story at a Time
Daryn Kagan’s online community features a daily Web cast of stories that “Show the World What is Possible.” The idea behind these stories is inspiration and triumph of the human spirit. Of course, all the stories are archived on the site and can be browsed under these categories: Animals, Artists, … Continue reading
Our Stories and More
Our Stories™ is a new project that encourages people to interview friends and loved ones, and to share these oral histories with others. Founding partners include UNICEF, One Laptop per Child, and Google. The idea is to create, share, and grow a global collection of personal stories collected through recorded … Continue reading
Followup on LoJo
I previously wrote about the “locative storytelling” project of a team of Northwestern University graduate students to study the intersection of journalism and emerging location-based technologies. The team has concluded its project and presented its findings, which they summed up here in 12 points and have made available as a … Continue reading
The Value-Added Memoir
Not long ago, USA Today ran a feature on memoirs about obsessions — such as the wife who vowed to have sex with her husband nightly for a year (somehow this one doesn’t seem all that obsessive to me), the couple that likes to vacation at sites related to atomic … Continue reading
A Storied Career in a Wordle
This week’s Wordle.net word/tag cloud based on A Storied Career.