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Publications

Medium

Arts Business

The Ambush at Sheridan Springs

How Gary Gygax, a semi-employed shoe repairman, built and lost the Dungeons & Dragons empire.

Jon Peterson Medium Jul 2014 30min Permalink

Tech

The American Room

Behind the nation’s closed doors, with YouTube.

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Previously: Paul Ford on the Longform Podcast..

Paul Ford Medium Jul 2014 10min Permalink

Arts

Secrets of the Stacks

How CREW and MUSTIE decide what books stay in a library's circulation.

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Excerpted from The Shelf.

Phyllis Rose Medium May 2014 15min Permalink

Tech

The Great Works of Software

In appreciation of meaningful, ubiquitous, enduring applications.

Previously: Paul Ford on the Longform Podcast.

Paul Ford Medium May 2014 15min Permalink

Business

The Minimum Wage Worker Strikes Back

On the fast food workers of St. Louis.

Sarah Kendzior Medium Apr 2014 20min Permalink

World

To Russia With Love

"For 20 beautiful years, my homeland was open and (kind of) free. Now, I fear, it’s closing back up."

Previously: Keith Gessen on the Longform Podcast.

Keith Gessen Medium Mar 2014 Permalink

Media

How Much My Novel Cost Me

An essay on how to turn a sizable book advance into a sizable debt.

Emily Gould Medium Feb 2014 20min Permalink

Crime

Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8?

After eight women are murdered in Louisiana, what was initially thought to be the work of a serial killer becomes something much more troubling.

Ethan Brown Medium Jan 2014 30min Permalink

Tech

Glass, Darkly

An ambivalent look at Google Glass, the “Model T of wearable computing.”

Theodore Ross Medium Jan 2014 10min Permalink

Your Friends and Rapists

An essay on dick culture.

Sarah Nicole Prickett Medium Dec 2013 15min Permalink

Science

Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?

Maryn McKenna Medium Nov 2013 10min Permalink

Business Tech

The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency

A cultural history of Bitcoin and what happened when the nascent virtual currency began to be covered by the mainstream media.

Felix Salmon Medium Apr 2013 20min Permalink

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