The Real Teens of Silicon Valley
High school dropouts are descending on San Francisco with nothing more than a backpacks full of clothes and ideas.
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High school dropouts are descending on San Francisco with nothing more than a backpacks full of clothes and ideas.
Nellie Bowles California Sunday May 2015 Permalink
After years of sexual abuse by a neighbor, a teenager takes matters into his own hands.
Maria Cramer Boston Globe May 2015 20min Permalink
A vegan sets out to see if there’s an ethical, sustainable way to eat fish in 2015.
Tim Zimmermann Outside May 2015 25min Permalink
Before embarking on dangerous rock climbs, Matt Samet would use whiskey to wash down powerful prescription tranquilizers. A first-person account of extreme addiction.
Matt Samet Outside Jun 2010 20min Permalink
Dozens of young adults in rural Wales are hanging themselves, feeding an epidemic of copycat suicides that experts are have been unable to contain.
Alex Shoumatoff Vanity Fair Feb 2009 25min Permalink
Kevin Hart wanted a scholarship to play Division I college football. It didn’t come. So he made one up–and called a press conference.
Tom Friend ESPN Jan 2009 35min Permalink
Its editors still live in different cities, still work different careers, and still treat Boing Boing as a (lucrative) hobby.
Rob Walker Fast Company Dec 2010 Permalink
Stories from inside slaughterhouses, car dealerships, and an 1800s insane asylum.
Undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.
Chandler Phillips Edmunds Jan 2001 1h45min
Undercover in the online-shipping industry.
Mac McClelland Mother Jones Mar 2012 30min
Undercover in a women’s insane asylum. On an island. In 1887.
Nellie Bly Jan 1887 2h25min
Undercover as a Juggalette.
Emma Carmichael Deadspin Aug 2011 15min
Undercover going through airport security.
Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic Nov 2008 15min
Undercover with Afghanistan’s drug-smuggling border police.
Matthieu Aikins Harper’s Dec 2009 30min
Undercover in high school.
Cameron Crowe Playboy Sep 1981 15min
Jan 1887 – Mar 2012 Permalink
A collection of stories by and about George Plimpton, who died 10 years ago this week.
An oral history of the oral history master.
George Gurley Observer Dec 1997 20min
A classic piece of participatory journalism, a genre Plimpton basically invented, on his very brief tenure as quarterback of the Detroit Lions.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Sep 1964
On Plimpton and the founders of The Paris Review.
Gay Talese Esquire Jul 1963
An interview years in the making.
George Plimpton The Paris Review May 1958 35min
A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Nov 1981
Plimpton’s son on his dad’s signature style.
Taylor Plimpton New Yorker Jun 2002 10min
In January 1966, the month In Cold Blood was published, Truman Capote sat down with Plimpton to discuss the new art form he liked to call “creative journalism.”
George Plimpton New York Times Jan 1966 35min
A profile of a previously unknown rookie pitcher for the Mets who dropped out of Harvard, made a spiritual quest to Tibet, and somewhere along the line figured out how to throw a baseball much, much faster than anyone else on Earth.
George Plimpton Sports Illustrated Apr 1985
May 1958 – Jun 2002 Permalink
What it’s like to have thousands of fans who don’t recognize you.
Brandon R. Reynolds Los Angeles May 2016 20min Permalink
Cars driving themselves into walls. Hospitals frozen. Elevators jammed. A scenario that could happen based on what already has.
Reeves Wiedman New York Jun 2016 30min Permalink
Are megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick visionary philanthropists or shrewd water barons?
Josh Harkinson Mother Jones Aug 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of a woman who spends her days evangelizing Donald Trump on TV.
Olivia Nuzzi GQ Oct 2016 15min Permalink
Anna Nicole Smith molded herself into an American fantasy. When that fantasy fell apart, we blamed her for it.
Sarah Marshall Buzzfeed Feb 2017 35min Permalink
Boko Haram has abducted thousands of children and trained them as soldiers. Four survivors tell their story.
Sarah A. Topol New York Times Magazine Jun 2017 40min Permalink
Abraham never fit in. Hisham finally felt at home. Then their worlds collided in western Arkansas.
Sabrina Tavernise New York Times Aug 2017 35min Permalink
Eight calls to 911. Three visits by five police officers. One woman’s senseless death.
Vivan Ho San Francisco Chronicle Oct 2017 25min Permalink
“GOD Almighty, you can get killed in Baltimore—for no reason at all.”
Barry Michael Cooper Spin May 1986 Permalink
“We are so screwed it’s beyond what most of us can imagine.”
Charlie Warzel Buzzfeed Feb 2018 15min Permalink
“We are beginning to understand what ails us, and it’s not something an oxygen facial or a treadmill desk can fix.”
Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed Jan 2019 30min Permalink
He never saw it coming.
Matthew Campbell, Kae Inoue, Jie Ma, Ania Nussbaum Businessweek Jan 2018 25min Permalink
Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?
Rachel Aviv New Yorker Apr 2019 25min Permalink
In 1997, a logger-turned-activist named Grant Hadwin cut down a very special tree. Then he bought a kayak and disappeared.
John Vaillant New Yorker Nov 2002 25min Permalink
When a brain injury leads to a personality change and then prison time, a neuroscientist wonders if his brother could have been saved.
Tim Requarth Longreads Oct 2019 Permalink
Gun violence, high school football and what coaches are doing to keep their players safe
Natalie Weiner SB Nation Nov 2019 30min Permalink