Jonathan Franzen Is Fine with All of It
He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.
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He wants you to know one thing: He’s not even angry.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner The New York Times Magazine Jun 2018 20min Permalink
Inside the growth of Goop — the most controversial brand in the wellness industry.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Jul 2018 35min Permalink
On Bill May, considered to be the greatest male synchronized swimmer who ever lived, and his long quest for Olympic gold.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner ESPN Mar 2016 20min Permalink
How Gaby Hoffman, who had roles in Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck and Sleepless in Seattle, survived child stardom.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The men and the women of the transactional-love economy. “A thing you should know is that there are very few people to root for in this story.”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ Aug 2015 15min Permalink
Young people who leave strict Jewish communities face a bewildering, lonely new world. One group helps them navigate it.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Mar 2017 20min Permalink
The Bachelor’s host, Chris Harrison, is now a divorced bachelor himself. It turns out coaching single men is a lot easier than being one.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ Jan 2015 20min Permalink
Cancer has taken his voice, but the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history still has a lot he wants to say.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine May 2020 30min Permalink
On the road with Billy Bob Thornton and his band The Boxmasters. Twenty years after Sling Blade all he wants to do is direct but “but none of those Hollywood assclowns will give him the keys anymore.”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ Nov 2016 25min Permalink
She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 25min Permalink
The world’s largest jewelry retailer was a cesspool of harassment and unfair treatment of women who worked there.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Apr 2019 30min Permalink
“Last August, I found myself wrung out and miserable over the state of the United States—the vitriol of the presidential election, the deep chasms of reality where we all seemed to find ourselves. I wanted to get the hell away, but not just away. I wanted out. I wanted nothing that resembled where I was coming from. I wanted everything new.”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Afar Jun 2017 15min Permalink
On Taylor Swift’s passive-aggressive lyrics, the life of the writer, and the pain of middle school.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner The Paris Review Jun 2015 15min Permalink
“Was she supposed to play by the rules and let her talent rot inside her extraordinary body? She’s saying that for girls like her, playing nice and fair would have gotten her nowhere. If it had worked out, we would say she was the manifestation of the American dream. Now instead we just say she’s very American.”
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Jan 2018 20min Permalink
The laborers who keep dick pics out of your Facebook feed, the geneticists who could help contain Ebola, and the shame of having poor teeth in a rich world — the most read articles this week in the new Longform App, available free for iPhone and iPad.
The grim world of outsourced content moderation.
Adrian Chen Wired 15min
A profile of Nicki Minaj.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner GQ 15min
Life in America without dental care.
Sarah Smarsh Aeon 15min
“The term douchebag, again used as we already use it, has the power to name white ruling class power and white sexist privilege as noxious, selfish, toxic, foolish, and above all, dangerous.”
Michael Mark Cohen Gawker 10min
The author of The Hot Zone on how geneticists can help contain the current outbreak.
Richard Preston New Yorker 40min
No one understands our new era of reality-TV populism better than the man who turned “The Real Housewives” into an empire.
Taffy Brodeser-Akner New York Times Magazine Jan 2017 20min Permalink
Josh Dean has written for GQ, Fast Company, New York, and more. His latest piece, "The Life and Times of the Stopwatch Gang," was just published by The Atavist.
“I sort of reject the whole idea of something being beneath me. There are obviously some stories I wouldn’t do or that I have no interest in, but this job is fun and should be fun. And I wouldn’t turn something down that seems like a fun thing for me to do just because maybe the story is not something that 10,000 people are going to tweet about. I don’t give a shit.”
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Mar 2015 Permalink
Christie Aschwanden is a freelance science writer. Her latest book is Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery.
“I think every writer has this sort of obsession in a story that they write over and over in different forms. For me, it’s about belief and how do we decide what to believe. How do we choose what evidence is credible? How do we make those decisions?”
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Feb 2019 Permalink
Megan Greenwell is the editor-in-chief of Deadspin.
“I’m the first external hire to be the EIC in Deadspin history, so not everybody knew me or knew anything about my work. I don’t think there was resistance to me being hired, but I do think when you’re coming in from outside, there’s a need to say, ‘Hey, no, I can do this.’ Somebody told me about a management adage at one point: Everybody tries to prove that they’re competent when they first start, and what you actually have to prove is you’re trustworthy. That is something that I think about all the time.”
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Jul 2018 Permalink
Matthew Klam is a journalist and fiction writer. His new novel is Who Is Rich?.
“The New Yorker had hyped me with this “20 Under 40” thing…and when the tenth anniversary of that list [came], somebody wrote an article about it. And they found everybody in it, and I was the only one who hadn’t done anything since then, according to them. And the article, it was a little paragraph or two, it ended with ‘poor Matthew Klam.’”
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Aug 2017 Permalink
Jim Nelson is the editor-in-chief of GQ.
“One of the things that was initially a challenge was we would all think of ‘the print side’ and ‘the digital side.’ Now what we all think about is, ‘Okay, stop saying GQ.com and GQ the print edition. It’s just GQ!’ And once you cross that line, you don’t ever want to go back to it. I can’t imagine. The job has changed so much, even in the last three years, that when I look back, I think, ‘God, I was just such a quaint little fucker.’”
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Nov 2017 Permalink
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections of Self-Delusion.
“I feel a lot of useless guilt solidifying my own advantages at a time when the ground people stand on is being ripped away. And I feel a lot of emotional anxiety about the systems that connect us — about the things that make my life more convenient and make other people’s lives worse. It’s the reality of knowing that ten years from now, when there are millions of more climate refugees, that you’ll be okay. It makes me feel so crazy and lucky and intent on doing something with being alive.”
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Aug 2019 Permalink