Leslie Van Houten: A Friendship
The filmmaker on his relationship with former Manson Family member, currently serving a life sentence for murder. An excerpt from Role Models.
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The filmmaker on his relationship with former Manson Family member, currently serving a life sentence for murder. An excerpt from Role Models.
John Waters Huffington Post Aug 2009 1h Permalink
An interview with Cobain a few months after the release of In Utero.
David Fricke Rolling Stone Jan 1994 25min Permalink
The inspiration for Boogie Nights, how Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murder and the article that prompted this week’s cover — a collection of great crime reporting published by Rolling Stone.
The author on why he belives in God (“It makes things better”), the perils of writing high (“Annie Wilkes is cocaine, she was my number-one fan”) and what he thinks of other writers (“Hemingway sucks, basically”).
Andy Greene Rolling Stone Oct 2014 30min Permalink
The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Janet Reitman Jul 2013 45min
How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.
Richard Ben Cramer Mar 1984 1h
He was a nobody who became a porn star, a porn star who became a destitute freebaser, an addict who set up his dealer to be robbed, and finally witness to a retaliatory massacre at the house they called Wonderland.
Mike Sager Mar 1989 50min
How two friends, working with nothing but an Internet connection, a couple of cellphones and a steady supply of weed, beat out Fortune 500 giants like General Dynamics to score a huge arms contract.
Guy Lawson Mar 2011 45min
How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town who became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.
Vanessa Grigoriadis, Mary Cuddehe Aug 2011 25min
Matthew Weigman was blind, overweight, 14 and alone. He could also do anything he wanted with a phone. Sometimes that meant calling Lindsay Lohan. Other times it meant sending a SWAT team to an enemy’s door.For
David Kushner Dec 2009
Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.
Nathaniel Rich Jun 2011 30min
Mar 1984 – Jul 2013 Permalink
But now, being a celebrity yourself, you feel differently? I've subsequently changed my opinion. Brad Pitt doesn't have a superpower at his back. He just has some crazed fans and paparazzi. But now, having had all three, I must say, I'm not terribly impressed with the experience.
Michael Hastings Rolling Stone Jan 2012 35min Permalink
An interview with Greil Marcus on the songs of Van Morrison and why people are afraid of imagined things.
Colin Marshall, Greil Marcus 3quarksdaily Aug 2010 25min Permalink
A post-mortem.
Leslie Jamison is the author of The Empathy Exams, The Recovering, and the novel The Gin Closet. Her new essay collection is Make It Scream, Make It Burn.
“My writing is always basically asking: what does it feel like to be alive, and how do we ever try to understand what it feels like for anybody else to be alive? In that sense, on the intellectual level, I’m always going to keep chasing the same unanswerable things.”
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Nov 2019 Permalink
The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history
Katherine Laidlaw Toronto Life Apr 2019 20min Permalink
Daniel Norris lives out of his car. He’s also the #1 pitching prospect for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Eli Saslow ESPN the Magazine Mar 2015 10min Permalink
Noel Morris’s place in history? Noel Morris was my older brother, who had dropped out of MIT and spent most of his waking hours holed up in an apartment working at a computer terminal. This was in the ‘60s, long before there was anything close to a home computer. The name Tom Van Vleck was not unfamiliar. He was a friend of my brother’s who worked with him at MIT in those days. I called him.
Errol Morris New York Times Jun 2011 1h25min Permalink
Leslie Jamison has written for The Believer, Harper's and The New York Times. Her latest book is The Empathy Exams.
"I sort of love imagining a small army of 22-year-old men who are just like, 'Fuck that book, I wish it was never published.'"
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May 2014 Permalink
An excerpt from Darnielle’s debut novel, in which a disfigured man talks to maladjusted teens.
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John Darnielle Vice Sep 2014 15min Permalink
It’s quite possible to make six figures standing around on a movie set – if you have a union card.
Hillel Aron LAWeekly Feb 2015 15min Permalink
The low-key swingers of sleepy Amarillo, Texas find themselves relentlessly harassed by a militant Christian group.
Forrest Wilder Texas Observer Feb 2010 10min Permalink
Father and son bond by hopping freight trains.
Ted Conover Outside Jun 2014 30min Permalink
Don Van Natta Jr., a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, writes for ESPN and is the author of several books, including Wonder Girl.
"The nature of the kind of work I do as an investigative reporter, every story you do is going to get attacked and the tires are going to get kicked. It’s going to get scrutinized down to every phrase and down to every letter. You have to have multiple sources for key facts on this type of story. We set out to get that and we got it."
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Oct 2014 Permalink
An interview with the novelist, who died on Saturday.
“There’s only one subject for fiction or poetry or even a joke: how it is. In all the arts, the payoff is always the same: recognition. If it works, you say that’s real, that’s truth, that’s life, that’s the way things are. ‘There it is.’”
William C. Woods The Paris Review Nov 1985 35min Permalink
On California’s three strikes laws.
Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone Mar 2013 25min Permalink
A jailhouse interview.
Paul Solotaroff Rolling Stone Mar 2018 25min Permalink
How UFO culture took over America.
Stephen Rodrick Rolling Stone Aug 2020 40min Permalink
A dispatch from Lima, Ohio.
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Oct 2014 45min Permalink
An obituary for Richard Nixon.
Hunter S. Thompson Rolling Stone Jun 1994 10min Permalink
A conversation with Prince.
Neal Karlen Rolling Stone Sep 1985 35min Permalink