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A profile of the Hollywood star-maker behind Vanna White, Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy.
A profile of the Hollywood star-maker behind Vanna White, Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy.
John H. Richardson Esquire Aug 1999 30min Permalink
An interview with John Waters.
Real life is seeing and art is looking. If you’re successful, it’s a magic trick: you take one thing, and you put it in here, and it changes in one second, and then you can never look at that thing again the same way. That is what art is to me.
Drew Daniel, John Waters Frieze Magazine Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The anatomy of a wrongful conviction in Texas.
Andrew McLemore The Williamson County Sun Oct 2011 1h10min Permalink
On the mid-sixties birth of America’s underground newspaper movement and the rise of The Realist, East Village Other, Berkeley Barb, and more.
Jacob Brackman Playboy Aug 1967 30min Permalink
The international battle over 17 tons of coins discovered by an American deep-sea treasure hunting company.
Susan Berfield Businessweek Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The story of Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier who walked off his base in Afghanistan only to be captured by the Taliban.
Michael Hastings Rolling Stone Jun 2012 35min Permalink
On the shifting nature of time.
Meet Faygele ben Miriam, the radical activist “beyond the leading edge” of the same-sex marriage fight.
Eli Sanders Tablet Jun 2012 Permalink
The story of Christopher and Jeffrey George, the twin proprietors of a pain clinic empire.
Felix Gillette Businessweek Jun 2012 15min Permalink
John Dirr’s son Eli didn’t really have cancer. In fact, neither Eli nor John Dirr ever existed.
A decade-long Internet hoax unravels.
Adrian Chen Gawker Jun 2012 Permalink
A trip to Disneyland in the mid-1960s.
Previously posted on Longform.org on January 25th, 2012.
Ray Bradbury Holiday Oct 1965 10min Permalink
How Google’s utopian/dystopian plan to scan the world’s books failed and the Harvard-led team that’s picking up the pieces.
Nicholas Carr Technology Review Jun 2012 15min Permalink
The Horace Mann School’s secret history of sexual abuse.
Amos Kamil New York Times Magazine Jun 2012 20min Permalink
An ode to professional basketball players and why pro ball is the best ball of all.
Pasha Malla The Morning News Jun 2008 15min Permalink
“Strong-arm methods, including murder, are common in the illicit narcotics traffic. After a major international narcotics ring was broken up last year, two of the- twenty-four defendants were murdered before completion of the trial. One was shot down in the Bronx; the burned body of the other was found near Rochester, New York. The business executive, factory worker, and housewife never encounter the seamy side, but this is what their bets are financing. Again I ask, Is this really the way the American people want it to be?”
Robert F. Kennedy The Atlantic Apr 1962 10min Permalink
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Teaching Ted Kaczynski’s anti-technology ideas.
Jeffrey R. Young The Chronicle of Higher Education May 2012 25min Permalink
The Penn State sex abuse scandal as told through a father, a son and “Victim 1.”
Luke Dittrich Esquire Jun 2012 30min Permalink
“Jon Corzine had never had anything to do with the futures business, had never run a public company, and hadn’t worked on Wall Street for a decade. His time there had ended badly. But by any reasonable standard, the former Goldman chief seemed almost embarrassingly overqualified. Says Flowers: ‘It seemed like we had more CEO than company.’”
Doris Burke, Peter Elkind Fortune Jun 2012 50min Permalink
The history of American whaling.
Caleb Crain New Yorker Jul 2007 15min Permalink
A multi-part series exploring Louisiana’s role as “the world’s prison capital.”
Cindy Chang, Jan Moller, John Simerman, Jonathan Tilove Times-Picayune May 2012 2h Permalink
A profile of Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka Sabu, a hacker star of Anonymous and resident of a New York City housing project.
Steve Fishman New York Jun 2012 20min Permalink
She was a thirteen-year-old from the Chabad Lubavitch community who would dip into a barbershop bathroom to swap her orthodox clothes for those of a streetwalker. Her pimping and rape allegations against a group of black men in their twenties, repeatedly recanted and then reaffirmed, would send the D.A.’s office into disarray.
Alan Feuer, Colin Moynihan New York Times Jun 2012 10min Permalink
A profile of fashion designer Nudie Cohn, who made clothing for Elvis, Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, and others.
Jason Diamond Tablet May 2012 Permalink
A profile of the Against Me! frontman.
Josh Eells Rolling Stone May 2012 25min Permalink