The Plot From Solitary
How four prisoners in solitary confinement launched the largest hunger strike in American history.
How four prisoners in solitary confinement launched the largest hunger strike in American history.
Benjamin Wallace-Wells New York Feb 2014 30min Permalink
A profile of Eve Babitz – muse, writer, LA party girl.
Lili Anolik Vanity Fair Mar 2014 25min Permalink
On the dueling propagandists of Kiev and Moscow.
Timothy Snyder New York Review of Books Feb 2014 10min Permalink
“Too much is being asked of the Delta.”
Alexis Madrigal The Atlantic Feb 2014 50min Permalink
Trying to understand the appeal of Eve Online.
Tracey Lien Polygon Feb 2014 25min Permalink
An essay on how to turn a sizable book advance into a sizable debt.
Emily Gould Medium Feb 2014 20min Permalink
A profile of Harold Ramis, director of Groundhog Day, who died today.
Tad Friend New Yorker Apr 2004 30min Permalink
The complicated process of ghostwriting Julian Assange’s autobiography.
Andrew O’Hagan London Review of Books Feb 2014 1h40min Permalink
What happened before a woman killed two cyclists.
Sarah Schweitzer Boston Globe Feb 2014 15min Permalink
An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.
Raffi Khatchadourian New Yorker Mar 2014 1h Permalink
More than 50 years after Nelson Rockefeller's son went missing following a boat accident in New Guinea, the true story emerges. He made it to shore, but didn't make it much farther.
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Carl Hoffmann Smithsonian Feb 2014 Permalink
PLAYBOY: Is it possible you set a lower value on privacy than most people do?
DENTON: I don't think people give a fuck, actually.
Jeff Bercovici Playboy Feb 2014 30min Permalink
The congressman (and future Mayor of New York) vs. the South American assassin.
Christopher Ingalls Haugh Politico Feb 2014 15min Permalink
A former student and high school coach travel to California to kidnap the coach’s daughter, an adult film actress.
Nic Pizzolatto The Atlantic Nov 2004 25min Permalink
How a town of 4,000, defined by aviation catastrophe, produced three Olympic medallists.
Jeff Passan Yahoo Feb 2014 10min Permalink
On goalies, and in particular, really good Finnish ones.
Chris Koentges The Atlantic Feb 2014 30min Permalink
Inside the lucrative — and illegal — business of elephant tusk trafficking.
Damon Tabor Men's Journal Feb 2014 35min Permalink
Why 85-year-old Jacques-André Istel established a town (population: 2) on 2,600 acres in the middle of the Arizona desert (but not before becoming a sky diving legend, among other things).
Jon Mooallem New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 20min Permalink
The death of a runner and the “ongoing culture war between fitness enthusiasts and automobiles.”
Luke Cyphers SB Nation Feb 2014 25min Permalink
How warming and acidifying oceans endanger the entire marine food chain.
Peter Brannen Aeon Feb 2014 10min Permalink
An investigation into America’s Greek system.
Caitlin Flanagan The Atlantic Feb 2014 55min Permalink
“If we do nothing, we’re dead! We’re toast!”
Joe Hagan Men's Journal Mar 2014 20min Permalink
An Englishman’s eighteen years of exile-by-choice.
James Wood London Review of Books Feb 2014 25min Permalink
Wil S. Hylton, a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, is the author of Vanished.
"I despise the fucking nut graf. I think it's a joke, a cop out. The story probably should be about something larger than itself but if you have to tell people what that is, you've failed from the beginning. If they can't find it, you didn't put it there and you shouldn't be beating them over the head with it."
Thanks to TinyLetter and The Fog Horn for sponsoring this week's episode, and to the Writing Department at the University of Pittsburgh for hosting.
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Over the course of 25 years, he’s repeatedly toyed with the idea of running for president and now, maybe, governor of New York. With all but his closest apostles finally tired of the charade, even the Donald himself has to ask, what’s the point? On the plane and by the pool with the man who will not be king.
McKay Coppins Buzzfeed Feb 2014 25min Permalink