Hammer Blow: The True Story of the Carderock Killing
“‘When I heard the facts,” says Matt Kull, one of DiPaolo’s former climbing partners, “I thought, That’s what Dave is capable of.’”
“‘When I heard the facts,” says Matt Kull, one of DiPaolo’s former climbing partners, “I thought, That’s what Dave is capable of.’”
Sid Balman Jr. Outside Feb 2014 10min Permalink
An inteview with the Saturday Night Live producer.
Previously: The Longform Guide to SNL.
Lane Brown New York Feb 2014 20min Permalink
After Berkeley biologist Tyrone Hayes said that a widely used herbicide was harmful, its maker launched an attack on him.
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Feb 2014 35min Permalink
“Living a life is basically about you entering one situation after another that you may or may not want to enter. Everything has stakes, everything has meaning, everything has consequences.”
June Stein BOMB Magazine Apr 2008 20min
“Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.”
Lynn Hirschberg New York Times Magazine Dec 2008 30min
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On the “queer roots” of Disco, House, and beyond.
Luis-Manuel Garcia Resident Advisor Jan 2014 1h Permalink
A murder involving the late actor leaves unanswered questions.
Bill Jensen Los Angeles Jan 2014 20min Permalink
“There was an unwritten rule in Mia Farrow’s house that Woody Allen was never supposed to be left alone with their seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan.”
Maureen Orth Vanity Fair Nov 1992 40min Permalink
After nine months of striking out, Chris McKinlay decided to change his online dating strategy. It worked.
Kevin Poulsen Wired Jan 2014 Permalink
On the Netflix hit drama and its show runner, Beau Willimon.
Adam Sternbergh New York Times Magazine Jan 2014 20min Permalink
Orlando’s suburbs become an accidental testing ground.
Michael Kruse Tampa Bay Times Jan 2014 10min Permalink
How a once-lauded psychiatrist became a prolific prescriber of painkillers in one of Virginia’s poorest and most isolated counties.
Ariel Sabar Washingtonian Jan 2014 20min Permalink
On hit-and-run deaths, and in particular, that of Tiara Nichelle Jackson on the Beltway.
Neely Tucker Washington Post Jan 2014 15min Permalink
An extended conversation on the problem of whether to “drop out or take over” conducted on Alan Watts’ houseboat, the S.S. Vallejo.
Timothy Leary, Gary Snyder, Alan Watts, Allen Ginsberg San Francisco Oracle Feb 1967 20min Permalink
The haunted aftermath of disaster in Japan.
Richard Lloyd Parry London Review of Books Jan 2014 30min Permalink
On the foreign workers of Dubai, who now make up 90 percent of the city’s population.
Cynthia Gorney National Geographic Jan 2014 20min Permalink
A love story.
Mischa Berlinski Harper's Nov 2007 35min Permalink
Dan P. Lee is a contributing writer at New York.
"I don't believe in answers. That's what compels me to write all of these stories. None of them ends nicely, none of them ends neatly."
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On then-agent, now-congressman Michael Grimm and what happens when an F.B.I. informant turns out to be a con man.
Evan Ratliff New Yorker May 2011 30min Permalink
An adventure on the Beringia, a dog sled race stretching 685 miles over Russia’s frozen tundra.
Julia Phillips The Morning News Nov 2012 25min Permalink
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How Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, all nine-sixteenths of a second of it, changed TV, the internet, and American culture.
Marin Cogan ESPN the Magazine Jan 2014 15min Permalink
An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.
Beth McMurtrie The Chronicle of Higher Education Jan 2014 30min Permalink
How a supposedly safe party drug turned lethal.
Michael Blanding Boston Globe Jan 2014 15min Permalink
From his testimonoy before the House Unamerican Activities Committee to his final fight, a collection of picks on the folk singer, who died Monday.</p>
How a substandard abortion provider stays in business.
Eyal Press New Yorker Feb 2014 40min Permalink