Family Snapshot 1934 Courtesy of Laura Hope-Gill

Special issue 6.1 of Fast Capitalism is about the narrative, visual and auditory power of biography. Curated by Audrey Sprenger and Ashley Vaughan, One Story High features new, short and never before seen works by anthropologist Katie Stewart, novelist and literary critic Amitava Kumar, sociologist Charles Lemert and filmmaker and folklorist John Cohen, as well as eleven other master storytellers.