The Longform Guide to "The Rise and Fall of..."
Falling Comet
The final years of “Rock Around the Clock” singer Bill Haley.
Michael Hall Texas Monthly Jun 2011 30min
The Rise and Inglorious Fall of Myspace
How what was once one of the most popular websites on Earth—with ambitions to redefine music, dating, and pop culture—became a graveyard of terrible design and failed corporate initiatives.
Felix Gillette Businessweek Jun 2011 15min
Kid Cannabis
The story of an Idaho pizza delivery boy turned weed kingpin.
Mark Binelli Rolling Stone Oct 2005 20min
The Crack in the Shield
How an idealistic young recruit became part of a cash-snatching, drug-reselling, renegade clique of cops in Brooklyn.
Michael Daly New York Dec 1986 30min
Shattered Glass
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
Disarming Viktor Bout
The end of the line for world’s most notorious weapons trafficker.
Nicholas Schmidle New Yorker Mar 2012 35min
The Rise and Fall of Kirby Puckett
The crumbling mythology of the beloved Minnesota Twin.
Frank Deford Sports Illustrated Mar 2003
The Big Fish
On Suck.com, the Web’s first daily-updated site.
Matt Sharkey Keep Going Jun 2005 1h
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