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Britney Spears works Vegas, bitch.
Britney Spears works Vegas, bitch.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Matter Jun 2014 30min Permalink
Possible clues about Lincoln’s murder in the unlikeliest place.
How coach Jurgen Klinsmann, “soccer’s Alexis de Tocqueville,” is trying to give the US an identity.
Matthew Futterman Wall Street Journal Jun 2014 10min Permalink
The creator of Scandal and Grey’s Anatomy offers advice to the Dartmouth class of 2014.
Shonda Rhimes Dartmouth Jun 2014 15min Permalink
A portrait of Ben Todd, a DIY champion of the emerging music scene in Nashville.
Amanda Shapiro Spin Jun 2014 30min Permalink
The author remembers his stepfather, E.B. White.
Roger Angell New Yorker Feb 2005 30min Permalink
The fall of billionaire Henry Nicholas, co-founder and CEO of microchip-maker Broadcom, who lost his job and his marriage amidst allegations of drug use, cooking the books, and building a secret party lair beneath the house he shared with family.
Bethany McLean Vanity Fair Nov 2008 40min Permalink
A trip to a Louisiana leper colony.
Barry Hannah Oxford American Oct 1995 Permalink
The early days of Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.
Ernie Brooks, Legs McNeil Vice Jun 2014 15min Permalink
An American woman's travels and memories of her Russian husband.
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Caitlin McGuire The Adirondack Review Jun 2014 10min Permalink
Ted Nelson's Xanadu project began in 1960 and was supposed to be the universal, democratic hypertext library that would help human life evolve into an entirely new form. It didn't go that way.
Update: The software was finally, quietly released in April.
The surprisingly difficult work of building bots that can walk.
Will Knight Technology Review Jun 2014 Permalink
How the Newtown Bee covered Sandy Hook.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Dec 2013 20min Permalink
Life on a weed farm in Humboldt County.
Lee Ellis The Believer Jun 2014 30min Permalink
How a bipolar diagnosis follows you from the top to the bottom of professional basketball.
David Haglund Slate Jun 2014 40min Permalink
A memoir of Santa Cruz.
Manjula Martin Maura Magazine Jun 2013 10min Permalink
The railroad foreman’s brain was pierced by a tamping iron. He lived to tell the tale.
Inside the split of the Hoefler/Frere-Jones typography team.
Jason Fagone New York Jun 2014 20min Permalink
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An investigation into “Little Albert,” the famous test subject.
Tom Bartlett The Chronicle of Higher Education Jun 2014 20min Permalink
“What kind of a person looks upon the world’s largest land animal—a beast that mourns its dead and lives to retirement age and can distinguish the voice of its enemies—and instead of saying ‘Wow!’ says something like ‘Where’s my gun?’”
Wells Tower GQ Jun 2014 Permalink
Wesley Morris, a Pulitzer Prize winner, covers film at Grantland.
"That's what writing about race and popular culture is for me: it's crime reporting. It's not me looking for an agenda when I go to the movies ... but I feel a moral responsibility to report a crime being committed. That's what I'm forced to do over and over again."
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An interview with Curtis Mayfield.
David Nathan Blues & Soul Dec 1976 Permalink
Coming out in a country where that can get you killed.
Farhad Dolatizadeh The Stranger May 2014 10min Permalink
The decade-long journey of a novel–Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding–through the unpredictable world of book publishing.
Keith Gessen Vanity Fair Oct 2011 55min Permalink