The Con Man Who Became a True-Crime Writer
In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s trying to make it by selling tales that are true.
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In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s trying to make it by selling tales that are true.
Rachel Monroe The Atlantic Jul 2019 30min Permalink
When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.
Lauren Smiley The Atlantic Nov 2019 35min Permalink
The Salesforce founder has donated a fortune to right capitalism’s wrongs, and he thinks his fellow billionaires should too. Why can’t we just be grateful?
Chris Colin Wired Dec 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
My mother’s eyes traced what was happening with happiness of a child. When she asked my father how it was possible, he thought she was asking about the flowers, but she wasn’t. She was asking how it was possible to see this much beauty at once.
Danuta Hinc Popula Jun 2020 10min Permalink
How a controversial rationalist blogger became a mascot and martyr in a struggle against the New York Times.
Gideon Lewis-Kraus New Yorker Jul 2020 25min Permalink
It was once a widely accepted way of explaining why some children struggled to read and write. But in recent years, some experts have begun to question the existence of dyslexia itself.
Sirin Kale Guardian Sep 2020 25min Permalink
After 9/11, U.S. authorities used informants to secure hundreds of terror convictions. But did they help create plots where none existed?
Rozina Ali New York Times Magazine Apr 2021 30min Permalink
Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, Ben Shapiro—they’ve all made their way to the Sunshine State, fueling and profiting from a tabloid culture that turns politics into spectacle, arguably Florida’s greatest export.
Joe Hagan Vanity Fair Aug 2021 25min Permalink
In late 2018, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community was mourning the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Then a stranger and his family landed in their midst.
Tired of migrants arriving from Africa, the E.U. has created a shadow immigration system that captures them before they reach its shores, and sends them to brutal Libyan detention centers run by militias.
Ian Urbina New Yorker Nov 2021 35min Permalink
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Sloane Crosley is the author of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number. Her latest essay collection is Look Alive Out There.
“The more extreme things get in reality, the more extreme escapism has to be. It’s like Game of Thrones or bust. But in reality, I think that part of what I’m trying to do with this book — or in anything I write — is to give permission to be mad about little things. Just because there’s all of this, someone still slid their hand down a subway pole and touched you. Or somebody bumped into you. There are still these minor indignities and infractions that occur consistently. And I think there’s some sort of robbing if you tell yourself, Well, I’m not going to be mad about this because of the political landscape that we’re in.”
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Over a scotch a few months after his underdog Jets won Super Bowl III, a 26-year-old Joe Namath told Jimmy Breslin what he’d done the night before the game: “I went out and got a bottle and grabbed this girl.”
Jimmy Breslin New York Apr 1969 10min Permalink
“When it comes down to it, really, genes don’t make you who you are. Gene expression does. And gene expression varies depending on the life you live.”
David Dobbs Pacific Standard Sep 2013 25min Permalink
Chris McCandless, Sly Stone, and Ida Wood — a collection of stories going inside the lives of outsiders.
At age 17, Eustace Conway moved into the North Carolina woods. He hasn’t compromised since.
Elizabeth Gilbert GQ Feb 1998 25min
Ida Wood, who lived for decades as a recluse in a New York City hotel, would have taken her secrets to the grave—if her sister hadn’t gotten there first.
Karen Abbott Smithsonian Jan 2013
Matthew Weigman was blind, overweight, 14 and alone. He could also do anything he wanted with a phone. Sometimes that meant calling Lindsay Lohan. Other times it meant sending a SWAT team to an enemy’s door.
David Kushner Rolling Stone Sep 2009 25min
How could a one-time rising golf star be gifted with top 10 talent yet struggle to break even on the LPGA tour, possess Madison Avenue magnetism yet be such a loner? But the most difficult thing to understand is this: Why did she take her own life?
Alan Shipnuck Sports Illustrated Dec 2010 30min
The tale of itinerant wanderer Chris McCandless. The magazine story that preceded Into the Wild.
Jon Krakauer Outside Apr 1993 30min
A profile of the reclusive musician.
David Kamp Vanity Fair Aug 2007 35min
If Charles Brogden pilfered a kitchen, he washed the dishes and mopped the floor before he left. And the law just couldn’t seem to run him down.
Jan Reid, Alan King Texas Monthly Aug 1973 10min
Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.
Michael Finkel GQ Aug 2014 30min
On the mysterious life of an the isolated heiress.
Margalit Fox New York Times May 2011
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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
In a nondescript office park in suburban Florida, a company you’ve never heard of is making a product that few people have ever seen. And it has $1.4 billion in funding.
Kevin Kelly Wired Apr 2016 Permalink
Scenes from a class conflict playing out between millionaires and billionaires on Hawaii’s Big Island.
Robert Kolker Bloomberg Businessweek May 2016 15min Permalink
In Brooklyn’s Brownsville, being in a gang can mean as little as being born on a specific block. Ackquille Pollard spent his final free days as a viral rap sensation, before being jailed as the leader of a sect of Crips.
Scott Eden GQ May 2016 25min Permalink
50onRed is a fixture in Philly’s startup world. But there’s something the leadership didn’t talk about, even with some of its own staff. They make malware.
Juliana Reyes Backchannel May 2016 10min Permalink
Donald Trump has spent decades seeking revenge on the many people who have taunted him. One of them was this reporter, who two years ago wrote that Trump would never run.
McKay Coppins Buzzfeed Jul 2016 30min Permalink
Did a handsome young Green Beret doctor kill his pregnant wife and two daughters? Or, as he claims, did a group of candle-carrying hippies carry out a vicious home invasion while chanting “Acid is groovy, kill the pigs”? A mystery that spanned three decades.
Robert Sam Anson Vanity Fair Jul 1998 40min Permalink
Aside from the wealthiest players, nine out of 10 NFL athletes are likely to be insolvent within 10 years of retirement. A new executive MBA program aims to change that.
Ben Austen GQ Apr 2013 20min Permalink
How a Japanese company took over the American living room.
Blake J. Harris Grantland May 2014 20min Permalink