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The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace
How what was once one of the most popular websites on Earth—with ambitions to redefine music, dating, and pop culture—became a graveyard of terrible design and failed corporate initiatives:
In retrospect, DeWolfe says, the imperative to monetize the site stunted its evolution: "When we did the Google deal, we basically doubled the ads on our site," making it more cluttered. The size, quality, and placement of ads became another source of tension with News Corp., according to DeWolfe and another executive. "Remember the rotten teeth ad?" DeWolfe says. "And the weight-loss ads that would show a stomach bulging over a pair of pants?"
Waiting in the Wings
A profile of Chelsea Clinton.
The New New Girl
A profile of Mindy Kaling.
The White Album
Royce White’s theories of mental illness.
The Longform Guide to Woody Allen
The Worst of White Folks
On personal responsibility and privilege.
The Laughs, Pathos, and Overwhelming Talent of Jan Hooks
A year after her death, a tribute to the Saturday Night Live star who didn’t want to be on TV.
The Doomsday Invention
Will artificial intelligence bring utopia or destruction?
Woman of the World
On Hillary Clinton’s Arab Spring.
Jack Kerouac: The Art of Fiction No. 41
An interview on craft:
Writing The Subs in three nights was really a fantastic athletic feat as well as mental, you shoulda seen me after I was done...I was pale as a sheet and had lost fifteen pounds and looked strange in the mirror.
Lives of the Saints
Mormonism’s past and present.
The Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama
Drone strikes and their consequences.
The Longform Olympics Primer
Contributing editors Gretchen Gavett and Elon Green pick ten stories read before the Games, on the Longform blog.
The Con Artist Hired to Clean Ebola
During the financial crisis, Sal Pane ran a multimillion-dollar mortgage scam. A few years later, with the help of some high-profile media appearances and a dead man's resume, he won the government contract to clean up Ebola in New York.
This Week's Most Popular Articles in the Longform App
An interview with Adnan Syed's family, the complete story of Reddit and an oral history of Boogie Nights — the most read articles this week in the Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
The First Year
A baby’s brain needs love to develop.
The Match Maker
On September 20, 1973, 50 million Americans watched Bobby Riggs lose to Billie Jean King in a tennis match dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes.” This spring, a man named Hal Shaw came forward with a secret he’d held for 40 years: Riggs, in debt to the mafia, had lost on purpose.
John Berryman: The Art of Poetry No. 16
“We take it that all young writers overestimate their work. It’s impossible not to—I mean if you recognized what shit you were writing, you wouldn’t write it. You have to believe in your stuff—every day has to be the new day on which the new poem may be it.”
The Slippery Slope of Musical Appropriation
Steve Miller had a clear-cut legal case when the Geto Boys used his guitar-hook in their raunchy 1990 single “Gangster of Love.” The racial implications weren’t so simple.
Excerpted from The Geto Boys(Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, 2016) .
Voices from the Storm
An oral history of Hurricane Harvey.
The Wanderers
Why do people with dementia become lost?
The Abortions We Don't Talk About
Six women tell their stories.
