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The gun-touting couple from St. Louis care more about private property than anyone realized.
Jeremy Kohler St. Louis Dispatch Jul 2020 15min Permalink
Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old autistic son struggle to stay alive. As night falls, the dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they’ll drown together.
Justin Heckert Men's Journal Nov 2009 25min Permalink
A young man returns home from the army and gets a surprising offer from his emotionally distant father: Join the family business and help mom & pop pull off a string of daring cross-country heists. No one expects the betrayals coming.
Alexander Huls Truly*Adventurous Jan 2020 35min Permalink
A hockey father's escalating faultsthe.
Bradley Babendir The Sun Magazine Nov 2019 10min Permalink
The author’s then-six-year-old ended up with the original artwork for one of the cards in Magic’s Alpha series—but he’s not selling, so don’t even ask.
Ben Marks Collector's Weekly Nov 2019 20min Permalink
A father struggles with old and new parenting techniques.
Jane Snyder BULL Magazine Sep 2019 10min Permalink
A profile of the songwriter.
David Malitz Washington Post Jun 2019 15min Permalink
Where words fail, there is music.
Shuja Haider Popula Mar 2019 30min Permalink
Baseball and complicated father/son relationships.
Patrick Walczy Hobart Apr 2018 Permalink
The writer travels with his father to Iceland and Greenland.
Wells Tower Outside Apr 2008 20min Permalink
The complicated life and death of Hideki Irabu, a pitcher who was supposed to become a Yankee legend and found heartache instead.
Ben Reiter Sports Illustrated Aug 2017 15min Permalink
“My son was jobless, directionless, and apartmentless. So when he decided to join the Army, we were just glad he was out of the house. What we didn’t know was just how much the military would change him—and us.”
John Nova Lomax Texas Monthly Jun 2017 20min Permalink
A son on his father's career behind the bar.
Excerpted from Two and Two.
Rafe Bartholomew hazlitt.net May 2017 20min Permalink
A father and son bond over baseball and deceptions.
Jeremy Rice Hobart Apr 2017 Permalink
A young, shackled black man is shot to death — and the police say he killed himself. The resulting investigation has pitted the victim’s father against the most powerful man in New Iberia, La.
Nathaniel Rich New York Times Magazine Feb 2017 30min Permalink
“I took my son to Paris fashion week, and all I got was a profound understanding of who he is, what he wants to do with his life, and how it feels to watch a grown man stride down a runway wearing shaggy yellow Muppet pants.”
Michael Chabon GQ Sep 2016 20min Permalink
“I never knew my father, a decorated World War II pilot who died before I was born. But a trek at age 67 to the site where his airplane crashed brought me closer to him than I’d ever dared hope.”
Stephen Harrigan Texas Monthly Jun 2016 45min Permalink
Twenty-four years ago, a Missouri father plunged a needle filled with HIV-positive blood into his son’s vein. No one at the time could’ve imagined anything worse. But even more astonishing is the life the son turned out to live.
Justin Heckert GQ Apr 2016 20min Permalink
On the talent, ego, and late father of Bryant Gumbel.
Rick Reilly Sports Illustrated Sep 1988 20min Permalink
A father, his dying son, and the quest to make the most profound video game ever.
Jason Tanz Wired Jan 2016 10min Permalink
On the comedian’s relationship with his son and how it changed the course of The Cosby Show.
Mark Whitaker Hollywood Reporter Aug 2014 20min Permalink
Father and son bond by hopping freight trains.
Ted Conover Outside Jun 2014 30min Permalink
A son’s memory of the father he lost at 13, excerpted from The Magical Stranger.
Stephen Rodrick Men's Journal May 2013 30min Permalink
From 1975-1986, Anthony Edward Dokoupil distributed more than 50 tons of weed in the United States. The operation ruined his family and destroyed his life. Three decades later, his son came looking for answers.
Tony Dokoupil Newsweek Jul 2009 15min Permalink
On the case of young Joseph Hall, who was convicted last month of murdering his dad.
Natasha Vargas-Cooper Buzzfeed Feb 2013 25min Permalink