What’s the Future of the Long-Form Narrative?

by Michael Yessis on November 4, 2009

Compelling story by Joel Achenbach about the fate of the narrative in the “Age of Twitter.” The crux of the problem:

Good stories take time to craft. Good writers, editors, copy editors, photographers, etc., all expect a living wage. The real question in the months and years ahead is whether there’s a business model that can support good stories. Norman Sims, journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: “The great stories will survive. But the question is who’s going to pay for them. . . . This is not fast food. This is slow food. And it’s expensive.”

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Do You Like Silly Voices? How About ‘Hamlet’?

by Michael Yessis on August 9, 2009

I recently cranked up my announcer voice to narrate the video for my wife’s upcoming book, Ophelia Joined the Group Maidens Who Don’t Float: Classic Lit Signs on to Facebook.

I’d explain the book, but, really, the video does it better. After all, it’s got finger puppets.

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Talking Travel Blogs at the Travel Blog Exchange

by Michael Yessis on July 19, 2009

Chicago, here I come.

I’ll be speaking on a panel at the Travel Blog Exchange ’09 on Sunday, July 26. I’m looking forward to what should be a lively discussion with my fellow panelists Sean Keener, Heather Poole and Christine Gilbert.

And because it’s Chicago, I’m also looking forward to this.

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World Hum 3.0

by Michael Yessis on December 15, 2008

It’s live.

I’m excited, thrilled, proud, exhausted, blurry-eyed. But there it is, the site we’ve been working on all year. Looking forward to building it out in 2009 and beyond.

Check it out and let me know what you think.

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George Packer’s linguistic death list. Farewell to gravitas and “the entire litany of Palinesque nouns.”

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