The Ghost of Speedy Cannon
How race and recollection still frame an Alabama football fatality 40 years later.
How race and recollection still frame an Alabama football fatality 40 years later.
Thomas Lake Sports Illustrated Oct 2013 Permalink
How Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars.
Jason McGahan Chicago Oct 2013 Permalink
An interview with the literary agent about the state of the book industry and how, at least for him, it continues to be quite lucrative.
Laura Bennett The New Republic Oct 2013 10min Permalink
A decorated college track coach, forced to resign because of an affair she had with a athlete 10 years before, fights back.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Sep 2013 50min Permalink
The 1966 Esquire profile, with notes from the author.
On Thursday, October 10, Gay Talese will tape a live episode of the Longorm Podcast at NYU. The event is free and open to the public.
Gay Talese, Elon Green Nieman Storyboard Oct 2013 1h35min Permalink
“The first point he makes several times is that his new album will appeal to everyone; the second is that he is a changed man who’s grown up and calmed down. All I can say with certainty is that Brown is a stranger to the concepts of modesty and consistency.”
Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian Oct 2013 15min Permalink
The man who made Bieber, how Nickelback cashes in, and the story of Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun—a collection of classic articles about the music industry.</p>
The rigors of youth football.
Jeanne Marie Laskas GQ Oct 2013 25min Permalink
On the online mug shot industry, which posts mug shots of anyone arrested (regardless of conviction) and charges $30 to $400 to have the photo removed.
David Segal New York Times Oct 2013 10min Permalink
“In 1981, with a computer built into my shoe, I walked into a Las Vegas casino and beat the house.”
Thomas Bass Wired Apr 1998 30min Permalink
He outsold Elvis, signed one of the first pay-for-play contracts and befriended Martin Luther King Jr. A profile of Harry Belafonte.
Jeff Sharlet The Virginia Quarterly Review Oct 2013 30min Permalink
A self-published author of pick-up guides visits the “pacifist nanny state” of Denmark and finds the social safety interferes with his seduction strategies.
Katie J.M. Baker Dissent Oct 2013 Permalink
Why a freshman congressman can’t get his bill passed.
Eli Saslow Washington Post Sep 2013 Permalink
A family investigates.
Leslie Anne Jones Buzzfeed Sep 2013 30min Permalink
Badfinger’s ill-fated attempt at a comeback, as orchestrated by a Milwaukee con man.
Tom Matthews Milwaukee Dec 2009 15min Permalink
The rise of the Night Wolves, a Kremlin-backed biker gang, and what it says about the Russian political condition.
Peter Pomerantsev London Review of Books Oct 2013 10min Permalink
On the fall of Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged creator of The Silk Road, a hidden black market website where users could buy and sell drugs, guns and, according to the FBI, the services of a hit man.
Nate Anderson, Cyrus Farivar Ars Technica Oct 2013 15min Permalink
Oil and iron-ore baron Eike Batista’s very bad year.
Juan Pablo Spinetto, Peter Millard, Ken Wells Businessweek Oct 2013 15min Permalink
A literary memoir.
Darryl Pinckney The Threepenny Review Sep 2013 30min Permalink
The world’s most famous child star grows up.
Susan Dominus New York Times Magazine Oct 2013 25min Permalink
On driving (and walking) in the Middle East – from Syria to Lebanon, across Saudi Arabia to Dammam, in a taxi through war-torn Beirut.
Nathan Deuel The Morning News Oct 2013 10min Permalink
Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His latest book is David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.
"The categories are in motion. You turn into a Goliath, then you topple because of your bigness. You fall to the bottom again. And Davids, after a while, are no longer Davids. Facebook is no longer an underdog—it's now everything it once despised. I am everything I once despised. When I was 25, I used to write these incredibly snotty, hostile articles attacking big-name, nonfiction journalists. Now I read them and I'm like, 'Oh my God, they're doing a me on me!'"
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Oct 2013 Permalink
On a parent’s relationship with unused embryos.
How one man helped get Vitamin D into milk, fortified food, and spurred our obsession with supplements.
Brian Alexander Cincinnati Magazine Sep 2013 25min Permalink
A young wonk is handed the budget of the world’s smallest republic.