Big Acts of Storytelling
Nov 24, 2021
3 minutes
—Michael Sebastian
PHOTOGRAPH BY ALLIE HOLLOWAY
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magazine I had occasion to interview David Granger, who at the time was three quarters of the way into his nineteen-year tenure as Esquire’s editor in chief. He characterized the feature stories on which Esquire built its reputation—deeply reported, vibrantly written, wholly immersive—as “big acts of storytelling.” The phrase has stuck with me, and today I use it frequently when talking about Esquire articles, past and present, because big acts of storytelling have been part of
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