Longform

  • Podcast
  • Best Of
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
    • 2014
    • 2013
    • 2012
  • Archive

    • Sections
    • Publications
    • Writers
    • Tags
  • Random Article
  • Contact

    • podcast@longform.org

Tags

Bodybuilding

Crime

How to Sell Drugs and Influence Everyone on Instagram

The true tale of a bodybuilder turned social media influencer who built an illicit empire.

John H. Tucker Boston Magazine Oct 2019 25min Permalink

Sports Movies & TV

The Hateful Life and Spiteful Death of the Man Who Was Vigo the Carpathian

“Norbert Grupe—a Nazi soldier’s son, boxer, professional wrestler, failed actor, criminal, and miserable human being who was never so happy as when he could make someone hate him—was once a man so beautiful that other men wanted to paint him.”

Shaun Raviv Deadspin Oct 2015 25min Permalink