Sleeping With Weapons
The bizarre story of the disappearance of “downtown legend” John Lurie after a former friend resolved to take his life.
Search
Showing 25 articles matching best fc points to buy Buyfc26coins.com is FC 26 coins official site..KzUT.
Genius Idea
Can a company best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things actually annotate the world?
The Genesis of the Gang
On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.
As the World Burns
The story of how Washington blew its best shot to do something on climate change.
You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!
A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.
Mikaela Shiffrin Does Not Have Time for a Beer
What it takes to be the best alpine skier in the world.
David Lynch Keeps His Head
A visit to the set of Lost Highway, minus an actual interview with the director.
The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever
In a Plano bowling alley one night, Bill Fong came so close to perfection that it nearly killed him.
The Identity Hoaxers
What if people don’t just invent medical symptoms to get attention—what if they feign oppression, too?
Longform for iPad 1.1.5
A new release of our iPad app is available in the App Store, and it includes a slew of great new magazines to follow: Gizmodo, Grist, McSweeney's, Men's Journal, Narratively, New Statesman, Polygon, Rookie, The Smart Set and the Times Literary Supplement.
Longform for iPad delivers picks from our editors, plus new articles from more than 80 of the world's best magazines, in an elegant, reader-friendly design. It's perfect for commutes, flights, and Sunday afternoons.
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
Exposure to the internet did not make us into a nation of yeoman mind-farmers (unless you count Minecraft). That people in the billions would self-assemble, and that these assemblies could operate in their own best interests, was … optimistic.
Consider the Lobster
A trip to a lobster festival leads to an examination of the culinary and ethical dimensions of cooking a live, possibly sentient, creature.
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age
After two officers came to a Pacific Northwest community, longtime residents began to disappear.
The Jessica Simulation
The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?
Doreen St. Félix is a writer at MTV News.
“It feels like there are images of black utopias that are arising. And you can’t—even if you’re not as superstitious as me—you can’t possibly think that that doesn’t have to do with the decline, the final, to me, last gasp of white supremacy. It really does feel like we’re approaching that, [but] that approach might be a thousand years.”
Thanks to MailChimp, Texture, Harry’s, and HelloFresh, for sponsoring this week's episode.
A Major-League Divorce
How Frank and Jamie McCourt bought the Dodgers for “for less than the price of an oceanfront home in Southampton” and eventually became entangled in one of the most expensive divorces in California history, which laid bare their finances and confirmed what many already knew: they had bankrupted one of the most storied franchises in baseball.
In all, the McCourts reportedly took $108 million out of the team in personal distributions over five years—a sum that Molly Knight, a reporter with ESPN who has extensively covered the story, notes is eerily similar to the cash payment that she says Frank McCourt has claimed he made for the team.
The Life and Death of the Chosen One
Ricky Rodriguez was born in the role of the messiah. His father was David Berg, the leader of the polygamous/incestuous cult The Children of God, which published a book documenting his early life:
In 1982 a shop in Spain printed several thousand copies of a book that was then distributed to group members around the world. Bound in faux leather, illustrated with hundreds of photographs, the 762-page tome meticulously chronicled Ricky's young life and was intended as a child-rearing manual for families. Its title, The Story of Davidito, was stamped in gold. With its combination of earnest prose and unabashed child pornography, it is perhaps the most disturbing book ever published in the name of religion.
Eventually, he left the cult and found work as an electrician. But revenge called him back.
Sponsored
Sponsor: Fairway Solitaire
Fairway Solitaire is an addictive and witty iOS game that combines the classic card game, solitaire, with golf. Rated five out of five stars on iTunes, Fairway Solitaire was the 2012 IGN People’s Choice Award for Best Mobile Card Game.
Here's what USA Today had to say: “Every once in a while a game comes along that’s so engrossing you can’t simply put it down… add Fairway Solitaire to that coveted list… even if you’re not a fan of golf.”
For a limited time only, get a free code for the full version of Fairway Solitaire on iPhone and iPod! Visit giveaway.fairwaysolitaire.com.
After the 9/11 Attacks, Boston Found a Focus for Its Anger
Terrorists boarded two planes in Boston and flew them into the World Trade Center. Massachusetts zeroed in on its top airport official, who has never quite recovered.
Hillary Clinton is the former Democratic nominee for president. Her new book is What Happened.
“I hugged a lot of people after [my concession speech] was over. A lot of people cried … and then it was done. So Bill and I went out and got in the back of the van that we drive around in, and I just felt like all of the adrenaline was drained. I mean there was nothing left. It was like somebody had pulled the plug on a bathtub and everything just drained out. I just slumped over. Sat there. … And then we got home, and it was just us as it has been for so many years—in our little house, with our dogs. It was a really painful, exhausting time.”
Thanks to MailChimp, Audible, and Casper for sponsoring this week's episode.
Leon Neyfakh is a writer and the host of Slow Burn.
“We didn’t want to be coy about why we were doing the show. We wanted to be up front. We’re interested in this era because it seems like the last time in our nation’s history where things were this wild and the news was this rapid fire and the outcome was this uncertain. That was the main parallel we were thinking about when we started. It was only when we started learning the story and identified the turning points we kept running into these obvious parallels. We mostly didn’t lean into them. We didn’t chase them. There wasn’t a quota of parallels per episode.”
Thanks to MailChimp, MUBI, and Thermacell for sponsoring this week's episode. Also: Longform Podcast t-shirts are now available for a limited time only!
Daniel Alarcón, a novelist and the co-founder of Radio Ambulante, has written for Harper's, California Sunday, and the New York Times Magazine.
“I’m a writer. I’ve written a bunch of books, and I care a lot about my sentences and my prose and all that. But would I be willing to defend my book in a Peruvian prison? That’s a litmus test I think a lot of writers I know would fail.”
Thanks to MailChimp, Audible, and Home Chef for sponsoring this week's episode.
Sponsored
Sponsor: "The Internet Police" by Nate Anderson
In The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed, Ars Technica editor Nate Anderson takes readers on a behind-the-screens tour of landmark cybercrime cases, revealing how criminals continue to find digital and legal loopholes even as police hurry to cinch them closed.
Questions of online crime are as complex and interconnected as the internet itself. With each episode in The Internet Police, Anderson shows the dark side of online spaces—but also how dystopian a fully “ordered” alternative would be.
Buy the Book:</a></em>
Amazon • Barnes & Noble • iBookstore • Indiebound • Powell's
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of the essay collection Trick Mirror: Reflections of Self-Delusion.
“I feel a lot of useless guilt solidifying my own advantages at a time when the ground people stand on is being ripped away. And I feel a lot of emotional anxiety about the systems that connect us — about the things that make my life more convenient and make other people’s lives worse. It’s the reality of knowing that ten years from now, when there are millions of more climate refugees, that you’ll be okay. It makes me feel so crazy and lucky and intent on doing something with being alive.”
Thanks to MailChimp, Time Sensitive, Substack, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.
Nicholas Quah founded and writes Hot Pod, a newsletter about the podcasting industry, and reviews podcasts for Vulture.
“I think to some extent I’m in love with the concept of momentum. Sheer velocity. It’s painful. It’s punishing. Physically, I’m worse off for it. But I feel like if I stop moving, something will fall. Something will break. And I’m over. It’s a horrible feeling.”
Thanks to Mailchimp, Pitt Writers, Audm, and Bayer for sponsoring this week's episode.
