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She’s trying to keep comedy alive at a moment when Hollywood—and its audience—can’t seem to crack a smile.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner New York Times Magazine Oct 2018 25min Permalink
“My entire vocation as an investigative reporter was predicated on being able to reveal truths, and yet I could not even rustle up the evidence to convince my own mother.”
Albert Samaha Buzzfeed Mar 2021 25min Permalink

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A collection of picks by and about the former editor of the New York Observer, who died Friday.</p>
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Editor's note: No compendium of cruise stories would be complete without David Foster Wallace’s account of his week on the MV Zenith. Alas, "Shipping Out" is not available online as text, but the pdf is here.
A seven-day cruise with the controversial “downtrodden millionaire.”
Caity Weaver Gawker Feb 2014 30min
An investigation into the disappearance of a 24-year-old British cruise ship activity director from the Disney Wonder opens the strange and insular world of cruise employees, who vanish mysteriously at alarming rates.
Jon Ronson The Guardian Nov 2011 20min
After losing a presidential election, 600 National Review subscribers hit the Caribbean.
The sinking of the Costa Concordia.
Bryan Burrough Vanity Fair May 2012 45min
On board the Perl Whirl 2000, a conference of hard-coding geeks on a luxury cruise ship.
Steve Silberman Wired Oct 2013 35min
The Estonia was carrying 989 passengers when it sank in 30-foot seas on its way across the Baltic in September 1994. More than 850 perish.
William Langewiesche The Atlantic May 2004 35min
Two thousand rednecks on the Chillin’ the Most Cruise.
Drew Magary GQ Jun 2013 15min
May 2004 – Feb 2014 Permalink
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From grizzlies in Alaska to whales at SeaWorld, a collection stories of animals turning on humans.
On Timothy Treadwell, later immortalized in Grizzly Man, who lived and died by the bears of Alaska.
Ned Zeman Vanity Fair May 2004 40min
The life story of Travis the chimp and the family of tow truck operators who raised him like a human child before it all ended in tragedy.
Dan P. Lee New York Jan 2011 25min
The life story of Tilikum, a killer whale who dragged his SeaWorld trainer into the pool and drowned her in 2010. It was the third time the orca had been involved in a death during his 27 years in captivity.
Tim Zimmerman Outside Jul 2010 35min
Encountering a pack of wild dogs in Manhattan.
Rebecca Skloot New York May 2005 10min
“Joe’s hand began to tingle, and he called the group together. The toxins would leave his system in 48 hours, he said. He’d be conscious the whole time.”
Mark W. Moffett Outside Apr 2002 10min
After two people are found dead in Yellowstone National Park, a team of investigators tracks down the unlikely culprit: a grizzly bear.
Jessica Grose Slate Apr 2012 40min
Apr 2002 – Apr 2012 Permalink
On riding China’s Qinghai-Tibet Railway just before it opened:
Staring out at the shimmering tracks and concrete-reinforced embankment extending to the horizon, I can’t help but think of the senior Chinese scientist who confessed to me that the rail line he helped build might not be safe for long.
David Wolman Wired Jul 2006 15min Permalink
Growing up in Toledo, Ohio, Gina Grimm always wondered who her biological parents were. “You know, you go to the supermarket and think, ‘That lady kinda has my nose.’ Or, you know, ‘That man kinda has a resemblance to my face.’”
Liliana Segura The Intercept Apr 2017 10min Permalink
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The motley gang of L.A. teens that cat-burgled celebrities, sometimes repeatedly, in search of designer clothes, jewelry, and something to do.
Film: The Bling Ring
Nancy Jo Sales Vanity Fair Mar 2010 20min
An orchid-enthusiast goes to battle in Florida.
Film: Adaptation
Susan Orlean The New Yorker Jan 1995 25min
Nearly 20 years after its publication, the author revealed that this story, on the disco scene in Brooklyn, was a fake.
Film: Saturday Night Fever
The man who blew the whistle on big tobacco.
Film: The Insider
Marie Brenner Vanity Fair May 1996 1h15min
Adventures in bartending.
Film: Coyote Ugly
Elizabeth Gilbert GQ Mar 1997 20min
Six young men, a boat, and the worst gale in a century.
Sebastian Junger Outside Oct 1994 20min
At age 22, the author went undercover at his old high school. Here’s what he found.
Cameron Crowe Playboy Sep 1981 15min
A young Brooklyn man attempts a bank robbery to finance his lover’s sex change surgery.
Film: Dog Day Afternoon
P.F. Kluge, Thomas Moore LIFE Sep 1972
Hanging with surfer girls in Maui.
Film: Blue Crush
Susan Orlean Outside Sep 1998 20min
Drag racing in New York.
Film: The Fast and the Furious
Kenneth Li Vibe May 1998 10min
At 25, Stephen Glass was a reporter wunderkind, regularly filing incredible pieces for the largest magazines. When suspicion fell on his sources, things started to really get strange. It wasn’t just sources and organizations he was inventing, but whole stories.
Buzz Bissinger Vanity Fair Sep 1998 30min
How the CIA used a fake science fiction film to sneak six Americans out of revolutionary Iran.
Film: Argo
Joshuah Bearman Wired Apr 2007 20min
Sep 1972 – Mar 2010 Permalink
The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter’s exoneration.
William Nack Sports Illustrated Apr 1992 1h10min Permalink
Lauren Bacall at 86.
Matt Tyrnauer Vanity Fair Mar 2011 30min Permalink
David Letterman weathers a sex and extortion scandal.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Apr 2010 30min
Johnny Carson, profiled at the top of his game.
Kenneth Tynan New Yorker Feb 1998 1h30min
An out-of-character conversation.
Eric Spitznagel Playboy Oct 2012 30min
A profile of Kimmel published just after he got the late-night job.
Jason Gay New York Observer May 2002 10min
A writer for Conan O’Brien on how The Tonight Show really ended and on how his boss got screwed
Todd Levin GQ Jul 2010 20min
Steve Allen, the original host of The Tonight Show, in his cranky, later years.
Josh Getlin Los Angeles Times Jan 1998 10min
Jan 1998 – Oct 2012 Permalink
The Spanish police believed he was a missing American teen. So, seemingly, did the Texas family who had lost him three years prior. Who they had actually found was Frédéric Bourdin, was a 23-year-old Frenchman on the run.
David Grann New Yorker Aug 2008 45min
He was an 18-year-old Marine bound for Iraq. She was a high school senior in West Virginia. They grew intimate over IM. His dad started contacting her. No one was who they claimed to be.
Nadya Labi Wired Aug 2007 15min
For nearly a decade, Laura Albert lived a double life as troubled teen turned cult writer JT LeRoy, writing books, chatting constantly with celebrities, and convincing another woman to appear as JT LeRoy in public.
Nancy Rommelmann LA Weekly Feb 2008
Jerry Joseph showed up in a small Texas town seemingly out of nowhere, produced a birth certificate that said he was of age, and quickly became a star for the local high-school basketball team. It was a role he’d played before.
Michael J. Mooney GQ Jul 2011 25min
The story of Alan Young, a career con whose go-to move was to pose as a member of the Temptations and smooth-talk his way into luxury hotel rooms and limo rides.
Kara Platoni East Bay Express Mar 2002 30min
When a man named Clark Rockefeller snatched his daughter during a custody dispute, what the D.A. called “the longest con I’ve seen in my professional career” unraveled.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jan 2009 55min
Mar 2002 – Jul 2011 Permalink
Excerpts from Live From New York, an oral history of SNL.
Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller Vanity Fair Sep 2002 45min
SNL in its grim 20th season through the lens of first-year (and only-year) cast member Janeane Garofalo.
Chris Smith New York Mar 1995 35min
A pre-30 Rock profile of Tina Fey.
Virginia Heffernan New Yorker Nov 2003 20min
Eight years removed from the show, Murray was at the peak of his box office power and living in a secluded farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley.
Timothy White New York Times Magazine Nov 1988
How one of the most maligned cast members in SNL history ended up a talking head on Fox News.
Gus Garcia-Roberts Miami New Times Jan 2012 20min
A sweeping, honest interview published just before Murphy announced he wouldn’t host the Oscars included his first public comments on SNL in years.
Brian Hiatt Rolling Stone Nov 2011 25min
Nov 1988 – Jan 2012 Permalink
Dispatches revealing the March 1968 murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.
Seymour M. Hersh St. Louis Post-Dispatch Jul 1968 20min
How the racism of white players and coaches ruined the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.
Jack Olsen Sports Illustrated Dec 1968 15min
An eyewitness account of Robert Kennedy’s assassination.
Pete Hamill Village Voice Jun 1968 15min
On Van Morrison’s grounbreaking album, which was released in November 1968.
Lester Bangs Nov 1979 15min
From the Apollo 8 flight journal.
The speech Martin Luther King, Jr delivered the day before he died.
Martin Luther King, Jr Apr 1968 20min
Apr 1968 – Nov 1979 Permalink
The fight for South Africa’s future.
Eve Fairbanks The New Republic Mar 2013 20min Permalink
A young couple’s story.
Amy Harmon New York Times Dec 2011 20min
On a child diagnosed with autism.
Amy Leal Chronicle of Higher Education Oct 2011 15min
The long, happy, surprising life of 77-year-old Donald Gary Triplett, the first person ever diagnosed with autism.
John Donvan and Caren Zucker Atlantic Oct 2011 30min
Should autism be celebrated? A look at the neurodiversity movement.
Andrew Solomon New York May 2008 25min
Autistic individuals have great difficulty breaking into many professions. One exception may be computer programming, where the difficulty of forming emotional attachments and communicating is not necessarily a problem.
Gary Anthes Computerworld Apr 1997
As part of his obsessive search for evidence of UFOs, Gary McKinnon worked his way into thousands of government computers. The U.S. charged him with terrorism. Doctors diagnosed him with Asperger’s.
David Kushner IEEE Spectrum Jul 2011 10min
Apr 1997 – Dec 2011 Permalink
Just over a decade ago, Specter set out to answer this question: How did Lance Armstrong manage the greatest comeback in sports history?
Michael Specter New Yorker Jul 2002 35min
An academic ghostwriter explains his trade.
In 1969, the sports establishment was wrestling with whether to embrace performance-enhancing drugs, decry them, or look the other way.
Bil Gilbert Sports Illustrated Jun 1969
AshleyMadison.com and the business of infidelity.
Sheelah Kolhatkar Businessweek Feb 2011 20min
The story of the MIT Blackjack Team.
Ben Mezrich Wired Sep 2002 30min
A quiz show scandal and its aftermath, as told by its star.
Charles Van Doren New Yorker Jul 2008 30min
There are enough stories about steroids in baseball to fill an entire collection. But there’s only one story about steroids and trying to interview a down-and-out Jose Canseco.
Pat Jordan Deadspin Mar 2008 15min
Jun 1969 – Jul 2012 Permalink
An interview with Rick Rubin.
Andrew Romano Newsweek Jun 2013 20min Permalink