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When I was 27, I quit my job to travel and ski-bum, and by that point I had managed to save a small sum that could float me for a year. I called it my fuck-you money, because if I was ever in a situation I didn’t like—stuck in a job or with a boyfriend I wanted to leave—I could say fuck you and go. Living in ski towns is how I learned the dirtbag lifestyle, and to my surprise I took to it naturally and with enthusiasm.
Ana Marie Cox is the senior political correspondent for MTV News, conducts the “Talk” interviews in The New York Times Magazine, and founded Wonkette.
“When people are sending me hate mail or threats, one defense I have against that is ‘you don’t know me.’ You know? That wasn’t something I always was able to say. As I’ve become a stronger person, it’s been easier for me to be like, ‘The person they’re attacking, it’s not me.’”
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On the future of Britain’s finances.
An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.
A profile of Sage Kimzey, the 20-year-old king of rodeo.
The mysterious death of one of college basketball’s most promising coaches.
An accidental evening with Yeats, in the spring of 1937.
The life of one of America’s bloodiest hitmen.
A Monrovia travelogue:
Even Liberia's roots are sunk in bad faith. Of the first wave of emigrants, half died of yellow fever. By the end of the 1820s a small colony of 3,000 souls survived. In Liberia they built a facsimile life: plantation-style homes, white-spired churches. Hostile local Malinke tribes resented their arrival and expansion; sporadic armed battle was common. When the ACS went bankrupt in the 1840s, they demanded the 'Country of Liberia' declare its independence.
A profile of Grace Coddington, creative director of Vogue and break-out star of The September Issue.
South of San Francisco, in a fertile corner of California that feeds much of the country, working families are sleeping in shelters and parking lots.
The author goes in search of his father’s days as a member of an elite club of sport parachutists.
The story behind the iconic photograph of the Holmes family, hiding in the water amidst violent Tasmanian bushfires.
The death of a high school football player and the life that has followed for the kid who made the hit.
On the experience of having a stroke.
On the life and afterlife of Che Guevara.
The stories of a record-setting chain of transplants.
A profile of William Heirens, the convicted “Lipstick Killer” of Chicago, who died this week.
Is long-term solitary confinement torture?
How P. Rajagopal, the founder of one of the world’s largest vegetarian restaurant chains, got away with murder.
A judge on the history and injustice of the plea bargain in America.
An interview with Murphy at the apex of his power, just before the release of Harlem Nights.
How the next generation of Indian women could break the country’s cycle of early motherhood and forced marriage.
On tragedy, mythology, and the spectacular crash of the Spider-Man musical and its creator, Julie Taymor.
