The Rise and Fall of Marty Tirrell
An Iowa sports radio pioneer turns scammer.
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An Iowa sports radio pioneer turns scammer.
Mark Emmert Des Moines Register Apr 2019 20min Permalink
Why don’t police catch serial rapists?
Barbara Bradley Hagerty The Atlantic Jul 2019 30min Permalink
What’s actually happening at the box office.
Matthew Ball REDEF Aug 2019 Permalink
An interview with the writer and Nobel laureate.
Elissa Schappell The Paris Review Sep 1993 30min Permalink
Public-health officials are confronting dangerous ideas as much as a deadly disease.
Nick Paumgarten New Yorker Aug 2019 30min Permalink
A life lived at 7’7”.
Sandy Allen Buzzfeed Jul 2014 20min Permalink
How climate change is altering food in Greenland.
Michael Paterniti GQ Jan 2020 25min Permalink
'It’s raised the bar,' Craig finally conceded. 'It’s fucking raised the bar.'
Sam Knight GQ Mar 2020 30min Permalink
American conspiracy theories are entering a dangerous new phase.
Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic May 2020 40min Permalink
How a pandemic unfolds when you’re a Wall Street billionaire.
Max Abelson Bloomberg Businessweek Jul 2020 15min Permalink
Welcome to Toke-la-homa.
Paul Demko Politico Nov 2020 Permalink
On trying, and failing, to qualify for the USA Olympic Marathon Trials.
Peter Bromka Medium Nov 2020 40min Permalink
A rider’s self-improvement project becomes a whole lot more.
An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend.
Inside Robert Sarver’s 17-year tenure as owner.
Baxter Holmes ESPN Nov 2021 Permalink
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In "The Trials of White Boy Rick," a Kindle Single bestseller, Evan Hughes tells the incredible story of Rick Wershe. An infamous teenage drug dealer in 1980s Detroit who flew in kilos of cocaine from Miami and drove a white Jeep with THE SNOWMAN emblazoned on the back, Wershe was arrested at 17 and remains incarcerated. But he now claims he was working with the FBI all along. Was one of Detroit’s most notorious criminals also one of the feds’ most valuable informants?
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Evan Hughes The Atavist Sep 2014 1h15min Permalink
A series of one-sided international love letters.
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Fayroze Lutta Specter Magazine Apr 2014 15min Permalink
A classic profile of Thelonious Monk, a look at Edward Snowden's life in Moscow and a dispatch from Ferguson — the week's top stories on Longform.
Meet Adam.
Luke Malone Matter Aug 2014 30min
“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”
Jelani Cobb New Yorker Aug 2014
A profile of Thelonious Monk.
Lewis Lapham The Saturday Evening Post Apr 1964 15min
How the GOP took control of state politics in Alabama, leaving black lawmakers — and their constituents — powerless.
Jason Zengerle The New Republic Aug 2014 30min
Catching up with Edward Snowden in Moscow.
James Bamford Wired Aug 2014 10min
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Catch shares are touted by the government and environmental groups as the solution to overfishing. But for a new generation under the system, the economics consist mainly of “absentee landlords, brokers and bankers, [and] fish quota that costs more than your house.”
Lee van der Voo Seattle Weekly Jan 2013 Permalink
The story of Thor Holm Hansen—”Norwegian country singer, a former Outlaws motorcycle chieftain, and an ‘ambassador at large’ to a rebel Haitian government”—who claims to be back in Florida to locate his missing daughter.
Terrence McCoy New Times Broward-Palm Beach Feb 2013 20min Permalink
Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers. Instead he was convicted–wrongly–of first-degree murder and spent the next 27 years in prison.
Brandon Sneed SB Nation Aug 2013 35min Permalink
On Queens’ stubbornly unchanging Roosevelt Avenue, where immigrants pay $2 a song to grind against hired dancers and shuttered houses of prostitution have given way to rolling brothel-vans.
Sarah Maslin Mir New York Times Oct 2012 10min Permalink
Most of the men were in their 60s and 70s, with heart conditions, diabetes, and replacement hips. They made off with millions in cash and jewels, only to give themselves up by not understanding how technology works.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Mar 2016 30min Permalink
Sallie Belling was an inspirational figure in her community for having overcome a childhood of abuse, drugs, and prostitution — a childhood her sister Rachel says is pure fiction.
Stephanie Wood The Sydney Morning Herald Feb 2016 15min Permalink
Forgiveness and the lives of two young men caught in Stockton street gangs.
Daniel Alarcón California Sunday Aug 2016 20min Permalink