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This Land: Elyria, Ohio
“The dateline is Elyria, Ohio, a city of 55,000 about 30 miles southwest of Cleveland. You know this town, even if you have never been here.”
Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side
A recent history of ‘bupe’ Suboxone film, which is described as a miracle cure for opiate addiction but flows freely from for-profit clinics to dealers and inmates, sometimes melted into the pages of smuggled Bibles.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and GQ.
“My writing career was something that was always about to happen, just as soon as the baby falls asleep, just as soon as I finish watching this five-hour bout of As the World Turns, just as soon as... What do you do when you realize that you have not been doing the thing you were going to do? You're in your 30s. You get to work.”
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Maria Konnikova is a journalist, professional poker player, and author of the new book The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win.
“I do think that writing and psychology are so closely interlinked. The connections between the human mind and writing are in some ways the same thing. If you’re a good writer, you have to be a good, intuitive psychologist. You have to understand people, observe them, and really figure out what makes them tick.”
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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold: Annotated
The 1966 Esquire profile, with notes from the author.
On Thursday, October 10, Gay Talese will tape a live episode of the Longorm Podcast at NYU. The event is free and open to the public.
Rajat Gupta’s Lust for Zeros
How the former CEO of McKinsey, who was indicted in the largest insider trading case in United States history, got played.
Evaporated
On the trail of Austin Tice and the late James Foley, freelance journalists who were kidnapped in Syria in 2012.
Bubble Boys
In Silicon Valley, up all night coding in the dorms with the aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs of tomorrow.
All-American Nazis
How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.
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My Terezín Diary
On what is recorded and what is left out.
Susan Miller Rising
A profile of the “smart person’s” astrologer, and the people who believe in horopscopes.
Chernobyl Redux
Tourism at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.
A Report from Occupied Territory
On police brutality in New York and the race riots of 1964.
A Threat to Public Order
The impossible task of touring a tractor factory in post-Soviet Belarus.
"It's Not So Easy Writing About Nothing"
Attending a meeting of the Continental Drift Club in Berlin.
Home Sweet Homer
The strange saga of the real-life Simpsons house in Nevada.
Opiate Island
How an island in the Antipodes became the world’s leading supplier of licit opioids.
How to Rig an Election
The perils of voting in the modern age.
Jay Caspian Kang is a writer and editor at Grantland.
"That's one of the things I've been learning: sometimes if you just sit there, they forget that you're there, so they forget to get rid of you. I'm very quiet and I try not to ask them a lot of questions. ... Generally I just observe. I feel like because I'm a fiction writer, the story will tell itself through the narrative of the person's movement through their daily life."</i>
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Interview: Bill Hader
“I did a few days on Franco’s As I Lay Dying, and the vibe on the set was very heavy and serious. The only thing I can equate it to is tripping with a bunch of your friends.”
My Family Saw a Police Car Hit a Kid on Halloween. Then I Learned How NYPD Impunity Works.
The writer’s family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager. He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.
Nick Bilton is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and the author of American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road.
“I’ve been covering tech for a long, long time. And the thing I’ve always tried to do is cover the people of the tech culture, not the tech itself. … I've always been interested in the good and bad side of technology. A lot of times the problem in Silicon Valley is that people come up with a good idea that’s supposed to do a good thing—you know, to change the world and make it a better place. And it ends up inevitably having a recourse that they don’t imagine.”
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