The Bloody Baron’s Crazy, Mixed-Up Robbery
George von Bothmer reported a violent home invasion by two men wielding guns and shouting death threats. Things only got weirder from there.
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George von Bothmer reported a violent home invasion by two men wielding guns and shouting death threats. Things only got weirder from there.
Lee van der Doo, David Wolman Daily Beast Feb 2019 30min Permalink
When Nikki Addimando shot her abusive partner, she thought she had enough proof it was self-defense. Why did the prosecution only see a cold-blooded killer?
Justine van der Leun GEN Magazine May 2020 45min Permalink
“With mood disorders on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic, people who’ve never experienced mental health issues are enduring some of the emotions I feel almost every day of my life. Maybe that’s why I can finally tell my story.”
Geoff van Dyke 5280 Nov 2020 15min Permalink
Natasha Vargas-Cooper has written for GQ, Spin and BuzzFeed.
"Writing is the worst part of this gig for me. I hate sitting down and writing; it's being with my worst self. … But then, when it's over, it's the best. I have no greater joy than reading what I've published—with the exception of some editors who have fucked up my shit."</i>
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May 2013 Permalink
In 1990, there was no star bigger than the man born Robert Van Winkle. But just as quickly as he became the bestselling rapper the world had ever seen, he became a pariah.
Jeff Weiss The Ringer Oct 2020 40min Permalink
In Georgia, what happened when a ‘nice guy’ named Kevin Van Ausdal ran for Congress against a candidate known for her support of extremist conspiracy theories.
Stephanie McCrummen Washington Post Oct 2020 20min Permalink
On Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and the genesis of the Kindle.
Brad Stone Businessweek Sep 2011 15min Permalink
One man’s experience with a sex surrogate in gay-conversion therapy.
Gene Stone New York Magazine Sep 2013 25min Permalink
Andy Kroll is an investigative reporter for ProPublica. His new book is A Death on W Street: The Murder of Seth Rich and the Age of Conspiracy.
“I think a book has ruined me for writing hot takes and spicy Twitter dunks and all of these other one- and two-dimensional bits of ephemera. I wasn't really a big fan of it in the first place, but I can't do it anymore. A book forces you to look at the world in a much more fine grained, humane, empathetic way, and there's no going back from that.”
Oct 2022 Permalink
“People always ask Rivers why she doesn’t just retire, enjoy her old age. ‘But they don’t get that I love it,’ she says. ‘All I ever wanted was this. I’m lucky, you idiots.’”
Jonathan Van Meter New York May 2010 25min Permalink
The former Van Halen front man has actually made more money from booze and food than from music.
Rebecca Flint Marx San Francisco Magazine Jul 2015 15min Permalink
Tabloid newspapers were caught hacking into the voicemails of Prince William and Prince Harry. One reporter was arrested - but an investigation shows the eavesdropping was far more elaborate and widespread.
In 1977, Johanna van Haarlem finally tracked down the son, Erwin, she had abandoned as a baby 33 years earlier. She immediately travelled to London to meet him. It was the perfect cover.
BBC Jeff Maysh Jan 2017 10min Permalink
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and GQ.
“My writing career was something that was always about to happen, just as soon as the baby falls asleep, just as soon as I finish watching this five-hour bout of As the World Turns, just as soon as... What do you do when you realize that you have not been doing the thing you were going to do? You're in your 30s. You get to work.”
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Jan 2015 Permalink
Since 2007, when they first heard that “the Florida of Russia” was being awarded the Winter Olympics, two Dutch journalists have been documenting everyday life in Sochi and how it has changed in the run-up to the Games.
Rob Hornstra, Arnold van Bruggen Jan 2014 Permalink
Madeleine Fullard is on a mission to locate the remains of apartheid’s murdered activists. She needs the help of Eugene de Kock, a former police squad leader known as “Prime Evil,” to do so.
Justine van der Leun The Guardian Jun 2015 30min Permalink
All aboard the maiden voyage Rob Gronkowski’s party cruise.
Simon van Zuylen-Wood Boston Magazine May 2016 15min Permalink
Sooner or later a technology capable of wiping out human civilization might be invented. How far would we go to stop it?
Nick Bostrom, Matthew van der Merwe Aeon Feb 2021 15min Permalink
Picks on Carlin, Seinfeld, Rivers, Pryor and more.
Why the richest comedian in history keeps working.
Jonah Weiner The New York Times Magazine Dec 2012 15min
A look at the life and career of Richard Pryor as he reached the end.
Hilton Als New Yorker Sep 1999
Carlin on his start, his work, and his addictions.
Sam Merrill Playboy Jan 1982 55min
The rise and fall, and rise and fall, of a legend.
Jonathan Van Meter New York May 2010 25min
Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.
Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah The Believer Oct 2013 35min
A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never succeed as a performer, does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.
Kliph Nesteroff WFMU Blog Feb 2010 45min
On Sarah Silverman’s stand-up style.
Dana Goodyear New Yorker Oct 2005 20min
A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up.
James Kaplan New Yorker Jan 2004 25min
A profile of the reclusive Garry Shandling.
Amy Wallace GQ Aug 2010
She’s TV’s loudmouth Domestic Goddess, desecrater of our national anthem and most of our notions of good taste. And she has a secret. Meet Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Joey, Heather and the rest: An adventure in Multiple Personality Disorder.
Mike Sager Esquire Aug 2001 25min
Remembering the unsparing Patrice O’Neal.
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc New York May 2012
Outtakes from a Rolling Stone profile.
Jonah Weiner The Writearound Jan 2012 45min
Jan 1982 – Oct 2013 Permalink
Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.
Justine van der Leun The New Republic Dec 2020 35min Permalink
Jeff Sharlet writes about politics and religion for Esquire, GQ, New York Times Magazine, and more.
“I like the stories with difficult people. I like the stories about people who are dismissed as monsters. I hate the term ‘monster.’ ‘Monster’ is a safe term for us, right? Trump’s a monster. Great, we don’t need to wrestle with, ‘Uh oh, he’s not a monster. He’s in this human family with us.’ I’m not normalizing him. I’m acknowledging the fact. Now, what’s wrong with us? If Trump is human, what’s wrong with you?”
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Jan 2017 Permalink
Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.
Jeff Maysh Narratively Nov 2014 30min Permalink
Taylor Lorenz just announced she is leaving her job covering internet culture for The Atlantic to join The New York Times.
“With technology and internet culture, I am more of an optimist than a lot of other people who cover those topics. It’s more ambiguous for me. It's more like, ‘This is the world we live in now and here are the pros and here are the cons. There are a lot of cons, but there are also these pros.’ I like how things shift and change under me. I like to see how things are constantly evolving.”
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Aug 2019 Permalink
On Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and their new Broadway musical about Mormons, which “may just be their highest artistic achievement yet.”
Carl Swanson New York Mar 2011 15min Permalink
How the author became tangled up with an international con man who may or may not have murdered several people.
Brad Stone Businessweek Jun 2012 15min Permalink