Running with the Bully
“Twenty-five years ago, I used to live in fear of Trevor Latham kicking my ass nearly every day. I grew up to be a writer. He grew up to run one of the toughest biker gangs in America. And then I tracked him down.”
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“Twenty-five years ago, I used to live in fear of Trevor Latham kicking my ass nearly every day. I grew up to be a writer. He grew up to run one of the toughest biker gangs in America. And then I tracked him down.”
Alex Abramovich GQ Mar 2007 25min Permalink
“There’s a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there’s a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.”
Elizabeth Gilbert, Rachel Khong The Rumpus Oct 2012 40min Permalink
Christopher Catambrone wants to help illegal migrants who try to cross the Mediterranean in ill-equipped, unsafe boats. But it’s hard to do alone.
Giles Tremlett The Guardian Jul 2015 25min Permalink
“Be careful. The toe you stepped on yesterday may be connected to the ass you have to kiss today.”
A profile of the late Buddy Cianci, who was twice forced to resign as mayor of Providence after being convicted of felonies.
Philip Gourevitch New Yorker Sep 2002 40min Permalink
To understand Cam Newton, you need to go to a small church 45 minutes outside of Atlanta called Holy Zion Center of Deliverance and hear his dad preach.
Eric Nusbaum Vice Feb 2016 20min Permalink
The author came late to basketball. A profile of his favorite player:
He creates a sense of danger in the arena and yet has enough wit in his style to bring off funny ideas when he wants to.
Woody Allen Sport Jan 1970 15min Permalink
The transcript of chats between Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht and a man he believes to be a Hell’s Angel who agrees to supply “hitters” to carry out 5 assassinations.
Andy Greenberg Wired Feb 2015 25min Permalink
He was a fixture in the kitchen of one of Seattle’s most celebrated restaurants, with plans to move to New York City to further his career. Then he robbed a bank.
Allecia Vermillion Seattle Met Mar 2015 20min Permalink
In July 2008, the director of a Denver non-profit received a package containing house keys, a will, a $100,000 check and what appeared to be a suicide note. She didn’t go to the bank–or to the cops.
Alan Prendergast Westword May 2009 25min Permalink
The corruption and cruelty of the state’s response to suspected jihadis and their families seem likely to lead to the resurgence of the terror group.
Ben Taub New Yorker Dec 2018 45min Permalink
She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.
Vanessa Grigoriadis New York Feb 2002 25min Permalink
No one can seem to agree on his surviving merits. He wrote like an angel, the consensus goes, except when he was writing like a malfunctioning sex robot attempting to administer cunnilingus to his typewriter.
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books Oct 2019 30min Permalink
Three years ago, Seidel began to teach me how to play poker. Why on earth would a professional poker player—the professional poker player—agree to let a random journalist follow him around like an overeager toddler?
Maria Konnikova The Atlantic Jun 2020 Permalink
Longform’s guide to Buzz Bissinger’s greatest stories.
His sprawling, confessional essay about spending more than $600,000 on expensive, and often bizarre, leather clothing.
GQ Apr 2013 25min
Before the show, before the movie, there was Bissinger’s tale of the 1988 Permian Panther football team and the small West Texas city of Odessa, where he lived with a family for a year.
Sports Illustrated Sep 1990
The story of eight gay men in Texas murdered by teenage boys.
Vanity Fair Feb 1995 35min
At 25, Stephen Glass was a reporter wunderkind, regularly filing incredible pieces for the largest magazines. When suspicion fell on his sources, things started to really get strange. It wasn’t just sources and organizations he was inventing, but whole stories.
Vanity Fair Sep 1998 30min
After one of the most decisive wins in Kentucky Derby history, Barbaro broke his leg at the Preakness, ending a promising career and beginning a herculean effort to save his life.
Vanity Fair Aug 2007 50min
On the retaliation ethics of baseball.
Sports Illustrated Mar 2005
A profile of Bissinger as he returned to his old stomping grounds, the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Philadelphia Weekly May 2010
Sep 1990 – Apr 2013 Permalink
Listening to music in prison.
David Peisner Spin May 2013 10min Permalink
Young neo-Nazis attempt to rebrand hate.
Thomas Rogers Rolling Stone Jun 2014 20min Permalink
“I come to America, I go to England, I go to France…nobody’s at risk. They’re afraid of getting cancer, losing a lover, losing their jobs, being insecure. … It’s only in my own country that I find people who voluntarily choose to put everything at risk—in their personal life.”
Jannika Hurwitt, Nadine Gordimer The Paris Review Jun 1983 55min Permalink
A trip to the capital of Yemen.
Maciej Cegłowski Idle Words Jul 2014 25min Permalink
The odyssey of trying to have an illegal abortion 1962.
Bridget Potter Guernica Mar 2010 15min Permalink
On Lance Armstrong’s return to racing after cancer.
Michael Specter New Yorker Jul 2002 35min Permalink
What happened to McDonald’s?
Beth Kowitt Fortune Nov 2014 15min Permalink
An ode to Roy Orbison.
Rachel Monroe Oxford American Jan 2015 10min Permalink
The 1920s experiment to reverse-engineer wild cows.
Michael Wang Cabinet May 2012 10min Permalink
An ode to mayonnaise.
Rick Bragg Gourmet Nov 2010 10min Permalink
The quest to control hurricanes.
Rivka Galchen Harper's Oct 2009 30min Permalink