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Bruce Springsteen's SXSW Keynote Address

Delivered at the Austin Convention Center on March 15, 2012.

In the beginning, every musician has their genesis moment. For you, it might have been the Sex Pistols, or Madonna, or Public Enemy. It's whatever initially inspires you to action. Mine was 1956, Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show. It was the evening I realized a white man could make magic, that you did not have to be constrained by your upbringing, by the way you looked, or by the social context that oppressed you. You could call upon your own powers of imagination, and you could create a transformative self.

Bruce Springsteen Rolling Stone Mar 2012 25min Permalink

Matt Levine

Longform Podcast #490: Matt Levine

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Matt Levine is a finance columnist for Bloomberg Opinion . His newsletter is Money Stuff.

”I write a lot about people who have gotten in trouble with the SEC or the Justice Department. And a surprising subset of them will email me. And often I will have made fun of them, and they'll be like, ‘That was pretty fair.’”

Show Notes

Levine's Bloomberg Opinion and Money Stuff newsletter archive

[19:00] "The Goldman Sachs Aluminum Conspiracy Was Pretty Silly" (Bloomberg Opinion • Nov 2014)

[22:00] "Don’t Insider Trade NFTs" (Bloomberg Opinion • Jun 2022)

[23:00] "Elon Has a New Bot Excuse" (Bloomberg Opinion • Jun 2022)

[24:00] "The GameStop Game Never Stops" (Bloomberg Opinion • Jan 2021)

[24:00] "Crypto Is Going Through Some Things" (Bloomberg Opinion• May 2022)

[39:00] Levine's Dealbreaker archive

[44:00] Noahpinion (Noah Smith • Substack)

[45:00] "Everything Everywhere Is Securities Fraud" (Bloomberg Opinion • Jun 2019)

Jun 2022 Permalink

Sean Flynn

Longform Podcast #54: Sean Flynn

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Sean Flynn is a GQ correspondent and National Magazine Award winner.

"I find it satisfying to be able to give a voice to people that sort of get lost…You know, when these big horrible things happen, and the spotlight is very briefly on them, and then it moves away, and it's not that I'm dragging them out and forcing them to 'Relive your horrible moments!' It's more a thing of, 'If you'd like to relive your horrible moment, if you want people to know what actually happened, talk to me. I will tell your story.'"

Thanks to TinyLetter and the The Literary Reportage concentration at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute for sponsoring this week's episode.

Show Notes

Flynn's GQ archive
[00:30] "The Finish Line" (GQ • Jun 2013)
[3:45] "Is he coming? Is he? Oh God, I think he is." (GQ • Aug 2012)
[11:00] "BOOM" (GQ • Jul 2010)
[11:00] "Way Down in the Hole" (GQ • Nov 2010)
[19:00] "The End: Boston Phoenix publishes final issue today" (Stephen M. Mindich • The Boston Phoenix • Mar 2013)
[22:00] "Barnicle's Game" (Dan Kennedy • The Boston Phoenix • Aug 1998)
[25:45] "A Voice in the Dark" (Esquire • Jan 2000)
[27:45] "The Perfect Fire" (Esquire • Jul 2000)
[35:15] "Bagdad P.D." (GQ • Oct 2006)
[36:15] "Papa" (GQ • Apr 2008)
[39:45] "The Sex Trade" (GQ • Mar 2007)

Aug 2013 Permalink

The Mitigator

How mitigation specialists are changing the application of the death penalty:

In Texas, the most prominent mitigation strategist is a lawyer named Danalynn Recer, the executive director of the Gulf Region Advocacy Center. Based in Houston, GRACE has represented defendants in death-penalty cases since 2002. “The idea was to improve the way capital trials were done in Texas, to start an office that would bring the best practices from other places and put them to work here,” Recer said recently. “This is not some unknowable thing. This is not curing cancer. We know how to do this. It is possible to persuade a jury to value someone’s life.”

Jeffrey Toobin New Yorker May 2011 20min Permalink

Kashmir Hill

Longform Podcast #551: Kashmir Hill

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Kashmir Hill is a tech reporter for The New York Times. Her new book is Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It.

“I often do feel like what my work is doing is preparing people for the way the world is going to change. With something like facial recognition technology, that's really important because if the world is changing such that every photo of you taken that's uploaded is going to be findable, it's going to change the decisions that you make.”

Show Notes

kashmirhill.com

Hill on Longform

Hill's New York Times archive

Hill's Gizmodo archive

Hill's Forbes archive

[01:00] "Life Without the Tech Giants" (Gizmodo • Jan 2019)

[01:00] "Living On Bitcoin for a Week: The Journey Begins" (Forbes • May 2013)

[01:00] "Your Face Is Not Your Own" (New York Times • Mar 2021)

[01:00] Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It (Random House • 2023)

[03:00] "Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened" (Wired • Nov 2009)

[11:00] Hill's Above the Law archive

[16:00] Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep (Ted Conover • University of Chicago Press • 2016)

[19:00] "The House That Spied on Me" (Gizmodo • Feb 2018)

[23:00] "I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move" (New York Times • Feb 2022)

[25:00] "Bing’s A.I. Chat: ‘I Want to Be Alive’" (Kevin Roose • New York Times • Feb 2023)

[26:00] "What Our Reporter Learned Delivering Burritos to New Yorkers" (Andy Newman • New York Times • July 2019)

[27:00] "A Vast Web of Vengeance" (New York Times • Jun 2023)

[27:00] "The Slander Industry" (Aaron Krolik and Kashmir Hill • New York Times • Apr 2021)

[55:00] Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa • 1950)

[59:00] "Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match" (New York Times • Aug 2023)

[68:00] "Clearview’s Facial Recognition App Has Been Used By The Justice Department, ICE, Macy’s, Walmart, And The NBA" (Ryan Mac, Caroline Haskins, Logan McDonald • Buzzfeed • Feb 2020)

Sep 2023 Permalink

Sports World Travel

Qatar Chronicles

A trip to the 2022 World Cup host nation.

David Roth SB Nation Dec 2013 1h Permalink

Returning to the Nepal Earthquake

The humanitarian crisis the rest of the world has already forgotten about.

Carole Cadwalladr The Guardian May 2015 20min Permalink

The Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel

A profile of the most powerful woman in the world.

George Packer New Yorker Nov 2014 1h Permalink

Best Article Arts

Downtown Is for People

On the then-new phenomenon of dead downtowns.

“It is not only for amenity but for economics that choice is so vital. Without a mixture on the streets, our downtowns would be superficially standardized, and functionally standardized as well. New construction is necessary, but it is not an unmixed blessing: its inexorable economy is fatal to hundreds of enterprises able to make out successfully in old buildings. Notice that when a new building goes up, the kind of ground-floor tenants it gets are usually the chain store and the chain restaurant. Lack of variety in age and overhead is an unavoidable defect in large new shopping centers and is one reason why even the most successful cannot incubate the unusual--a point overlooked by planners of downtown shopping-center projects.”

Jane Jacobs Fortune Apr 1958 25min Permalink

Inside Israel’s Lucrative — and Secretive — Cybersurveillance Industry

The country’s hacking software is recognized the world over. Not everyone thinks it’s a good thing.

Amos Barshad Rest of World Mar 2021 Permalink

The Obama Doctrine

How the president thinks about America’s role in the world.

Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic Mar 2016 1h20min Permalink

Marrakech

A dispatch from Morocco.

George Orwell New Writing Dec 1939 10min Permalink

ISIS Is a Revolution

An ethnography.

Scott Altran Aeon Dec 2015 40min Permalink

After Karzai

A profile of Afghanistan’s outgoing president.

Mujib Mashal The Atlantic Jul 2014 20min Permalink