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The author unearths the story of Frank Yerby, one of the the most prolific African-American novelists in history.
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The author unearths the story of Frank Yerby, one of the the most prolific African-American novelists in history.
KaToya Ellis Fleming Oxford American Mar 2020 35min Permalink
An early profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.
Leonora LaPeter Anton Tampa Bay Times Nov 2007 15min Permalink
Antoine Yates spent three years living in New York City public housing with a 450-pound Siberian tiger named Ming.
Zaron Burnett III MEL Magazine Apr 2020 Permalink
In 1944, an eighteen year old boy became famous for throwing eggs at Frank Sinatra. Then he disappeared.
J.P. Robinson Medium May 2019 15min Permalink
Florida’s tourism economy crashed, leaving dozens of low-wage workers trapped in a crumbling motel without electricity.
Greg Jaffe Washington Post Sep 2020 20min Permalink
Humans have always sensed the ghosts of loved ones. It’s only in the last century that we convinced ourselves this was a problem.
Patricia Pearson The Walrus Oct 2020 15min Permalink
The antics in postwar Nordic children’s books left propaganda and prudery behind. We need this madcap spirit more than ever.
Richard W Orange Aeon Oct 2020 10min Permalink
Uber made big promises in Kenya. Drivers say it’s ruined their lives.
Amanda Sperber NBC News Nov 2020 30min Permalink
Before a disastrous blight, the American chestnut was a keystone species in eastern forests. Could genetic engineering help bring it back?
Kate Morgan Sierra Magazine Mar 2021 15min Permalink
The world’s greatest animator, Yuri Norstein, hasn’t released a new film in 37 years.
Brian Phillips MTV Nov 2016 40min Permalink
Deana Lawson’s regal, loving, unburdened photographs imagine a world in which Black people are free from the distortions of history.
Jenna Wortham New York Times Magazine May 2021 30min Permalink
In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.
Jordan Michael Smith The Atavist Magazine Jun 2021 45min Permalink
When a rash of sensational museum robberies stunned Europe, police zeroed in on a fearsome crime family—and a flashy new generation of young outlaws.
Joshua Hammer GQ Aug 2021 25min Permalink
Their boat gone, they spent five days in the Atlantic Ocean without food or water, surrounded by sharks.
Kevin Koczwara Boston Magazine Aug 2021 20min Permalink
Why did Christie Smythe upend her life and stability for Martin Shkreli, one of the least-liked men in the world?
Stephanie Clifford Elle Dec 2020 20min Permalink
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Inside the political battle over reproductive rights in Texas a decade ago.
Mimi Swartz Texas Monthly Aug 2012 35min Permalink
393 Powell Street was a peaceful home until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.
Greg Donahue New York Oct 2021 35min Permalink
Since she first started working in the hospitality industry two decades ago, Vida Afram has cleaned nearly 60,000 hotel rooms.
Maddy Crowell Afar Nov 2021 10min Permalink
How online sales of highly regulated, super-toxic rodenticides exploit gaps in the law and imperil wildlife.
Chris Sweeney Audubon Dec 2021 Permalink
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.
Jack Kerouac, Ted Berrigan The Paris Review Jun 1968 45min Permalink
With Osama dead, U.S. intelligence is zeroing in on the remaining most dangerous terrorists alive, and one man is at the top of the list. Of the eighteen terror attacks attempted in the United States over the past two years, Anwar al-Awlaki’s fingerprints are on eight of them. The moderate turned radical is eloquent, he is popular— and he’s American.
Patrick Symmes GQ Jul 2011 15min Permalink
Because of what happened in Georgia, Ms. Grace has said over and over, she knows firsthand how the system favors hardened criminals over victims. It is the foundation of her judicial philosophy, her motivation in life, her casus belli. And much of it isn’t true.
Rebecca Dana The New York Observer Mar 2006 10min Permalink
A history of a small Texas town deep in the Chihuahuan desert:
The isolation is such that if you laid out the islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, and the deep ocean channels that separate them, on the road between Marfa and the East Texas of strip shopping and George Bush Jr., you’d still have 100 miles of blank highway stretching away in front of you.
Sean Wilsey McSweeney's Mar 1999 45min Permalink
Harland Sanders left home when he was 13. He once gunned a man down in the street for painting over one of his signs. During the war, he fed the scientists who created the atomic bomb. And then, in his 60s and going by the moniker Colonel Sanders, he began selling fried chicken.
Alan Bellows Damn Interesting Mar 2016 30min Permalink
He was a college freshman partying in Manhattan for the first. He ran into a woman he knew from college, got separated from his friends, and ended up at a house party full of strangers. By the next morning, his body would be dumped in a Brooklyn driveway. Fifteen years later, the “circumstances of his death remain muddled.”
Alan Feuer New York Times Feb 2018 15min Permalink