The Memory Project: Recent Episodes
The Memory Project
We began with 15 photos, 15 questions and 15 memories; it ended with 15 true stories. Listen to discover 15 writers and the stories we'll never forget.
The Memory Project is a narrative storytelling experiment from Zetz Publishing, an affiliate of Columbia Journalism School.
Elettra Pauletto tells the story of why, for one year, everyone seemed to be scowling at her. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/the-year-of-living-almost-dangerously-1704b742d1f
Francesca Carter tells the story of a happy girl who just failed a grade. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/word-blind-460e126acd81
Tony Lin tells the story of his grandparents' secret. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/the-girl-who-would-be-a-scholar-1d9b2c611ed7
Tori Otten on the beautiful stranger her family loves but won't talk about it. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/that-young-man-4fb89cbf53b2
Sweenie Saint-Vil tells the story of how a carefree photo ended the darkness. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/purpose-180f3a0ebc46
Sarah Dadouch tells the story behind a winter wonderland she can never return to. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/rooms-with-a-view-f4a82613c22d
Patrick Martin tells the story of the rise and fall of a Memphis karate school. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/dojo-rats-573c386675e5
Michelle Gao tells the story of a place she cannot forget. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/where-he-lived-where-he-died-76e5af606e71
Kate Cough tells the story of how a photo of a dead man she never met became part of a personal ritual. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/journey-as-a-way-of-life-4a11981e8b92
Francine Parham tells the story of facing an unlikely disciplinarian. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/disobedient-cdbea8348de0
Fernanda Uriegas tells the story of what happened to the happy family pictured on a Cuban beach. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/the-exiles-6b12587c39a7
E.K. Hudson tells the story of the boy who's been hanging over her since the day she was born. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/seventeen-forever-bc97e791d20c
Elise Hansen explains who the man in this blurry photo is and why he haunts her family. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/path-of-a-bullet-8c8089498dbb
Diego Courchay tells the story behind the photos of his father. Read the story: https://medium.com/memory-project/fragments-from-my-father-42d2ec51f99a
Ben Feibleman on the story underneath a well-tailored suit. Read the story: https://medium.com/@benfeibleman/the-gangster-in-the-blue-serge-suit-801da4f616be