Gay Talese, The Art of Nonfiction No. 2
The original new journalist on his start at the Times, his daily writing routine, and why he’s always taken notes on shirt boards.
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The original new journalist on his start at the Times, his daily writing routine, and why he’s always taken notes on shirt boards.
Gay Talese, Katie Roiphe The Paris Review Jun 2009 50min Permalink
First they found his server, then they found his name. But if they couldn’t catch him with his laptop open, the whole thing would fall apart.
Joshuah Bearman Wired May 2015 15min Permalink
The number one place Tampa Bay cops visit: Walmart. And it’s not even close — they average two trips an hour.
Zachary T. Sampson, Laura C. Morel, Eli Murray Tampa Bay Times May 2016 20min Permalink
Why Berhanu Nega traded a tenured position in Pennsylvania for the chance to move to a rustic Eritrean bungalow and lead a revolutionary force against an oppressive regime.
Joshua Hammer New York Times Magazine Aug 2016 20min Permalink
Chris Barry was born into Washington D.C. royalty. He died alone, essentially homeless, just a year after losing a race for his father’s former seat.
Harry Jaffe Washingtonian Jan 2017 20min Permalink
It started with a vague tip-off: a tug boat approaching the UK could be transporting cocaine. What followed was a race against the clock to find £500m in narcotics
Greg Williams Wired (UK) Dec 2016 25min Permalink
There are a thousand ways to buy weed in New York City, but the Green Angels devised a novel strategy for standing out: They hired models to be their dealers.
Suketu Mehta GQ Feb 2017 25min Permalink
Hollywood is aggressively adapting material that doesn’t have a narrative or even any characters. But not all intellectual property is created equal.
Alex French New York Times Magazine Jul 2017 20min Permalink
Inside Stripe’s battle to upend the online payments world.
Ashlee Vance Bloomberg Businessweek Aug 2017 25min Permalink
His father was a notorious figure in Providence organized crime. Boxing offered a different path for Jarrod Tillinghast—but it didn’t stop him from slipping into his old ways and robbing drug dealers with his neighborhood friends.
Tim Struby Victory Journal Dec 2017 20min Permalink
“It’s not like I told myself, okay, this is it, you’re gonna take the guy outside and throw him off the goddam boat.”
Paul Hendrickson Washington Post Sep 1987 20min Permalink
“If you think the mission your country keeps sending you on is pointless or impossible and that you’re only deploying to protect your brothers and sisters in arms from danger, then it’s not the Taliban or al-Qaeda or isis that’s trying to kill you, it’s America.”
Phil Klay The Atlantic Apr 2018 30min Permalink
I’m a 36-year-old grown-ass man, and I’m about to start crying on the plane coming back from Game 4. That’s how bad I want it.
Richard Jefferson The Players Tribune Jan 2019 20min Permalink
These women want the right to compete in big-wave contests—and get paid as much as men do.
Daniel Duane New York Times Magazine Feb 2019 35min Permalink
What’s wrong with some forgery, fraud, and crystal meth if you’ll soon be gone? A better question: What the hell happens if you survive?
Nathaniel Penn GQ May 2019 30min Permalink
Sexual harassment. Hate speech. Employee walkouts. The Silicon Valley giant is trapped in a war against itself. And there’s no end in sight.
Nitasha Tiku Wired Aug 2019 50min Permalink
Most tycoons give big to one or two universities as their children approach college age. David Shaw gave to seven.
Ava Kofman, Daniel Golden ProPublica Sep 2019 20min Permalink
How the museum-quality 55,000 film collection that an East Village video store gave away ended up in a small, possibly mob-run village in Sicily.
Karina Longworth Village Voice Sep 2012 Permalink
Gus Weiss, a shrewd intelligence insider, pulled off an audacious tech hack against the Soviets in the last century. Or did he?
Alex French Wired Mar 2020 40min Permalink
The photographer who showed us the world always kept coming back to a little town by the sea.
Elon Green Inside Hook Apr 2020 15min Permalink
More than 40 years ago, pioneering author Jim Fixx’s best-selling book brought jogging to the masses, espousing its physical and emotional benefits. Now, those themes resonate more than ever with a homebound society.
Chris Ballard Sports Illustrated May 2020 25min Permalink
Last September, law enforcement officers were confounded by a murderer targeting prostitutes along the border. As the investigation intensified, they discovered that the killer had been hiding in plain sight.
Skip Hollandsworth Texas Monthly Sep 2019 Permalink
The gun-touting couple from St. Louis care more about private property than anyone realized.
Jeremy Kohler St. Louis Dispatch Jul 2020 15min Permalink
Trump’s trade representative joined the administration with one mission: Bring factory jobs back from overseas. The results so far? Endless trade wars, alienated allies, and a manufacturing recession.
Lydia DePillis ProPublica Oct 2020 25min Permalink
It’s a sham known as “sewer service.” When process servers regularly fail to deliver summonses, it leads to to automatic evictions for unwitting tenants.
Josh Kaplan DCist Oct 2020 35min Permalink