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Arts

Arts

To Shill a Mockingbird

A 58-year-old manuscript will become Harper Lee’s second novel, but questions about Lee’s care continue to swirl in Alabama.

Neely Tucker Washington Post Feb 2015 20min Permalink

Arts Music

Daniel Knox Gives Our Derelicts the Beautiful Music They Deserve

One day you’re teaching yourself to play the piano in hotel lobbies, the next you’re contributing a song to a David Lynch soundtrack.

Tal Rosenberg Chicago Reader Feb 2015 15min Permalink

Arts

Brother from Another Mother

Key and Peele try to make comedic sense of America’s confusions about race. Their secret? “Really, there’s no actual strategy.”

Zadie Smith New Yorker Feb 2015 35min Permalink

Arts Media Music

The Cabaret Beat

The article that kept the New Yorker alive was written by a debutante. Who happened to be married to Irving Berlin.

Ian Frazier New Yorker Feb 2015 25min Permalink

Arts Music

The Third Revelation of Father John Misty

The many lives of Josh Tillman, who on the way to releasing one of the year’s best albums was “a defiant child of God, a broke dishwasher, a successful drummer, a Dionysian shaman, a failed poet, a drug-hoovering spiritualist, and a gleeful prankster.”

Sean Fennessey Grantland Feb 2015 20min Permalink

Arts

On Sylvia Plath

She was not just a poet, she was an “event” in American literature all by herself.

Elizabeth Hardwick New York Review of Books Dec 1969 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Behind the Scenes of the Fifty Shades of Grey Movie

In spite of the boiling-hot anticipation of its release, no one had much fun making this movie.

Vanessa Grigoriadis Vanity Fair Feb 2015 25min Permalink

Arts Crime Music

The Mystery of Mingering Mike

A draft dodger invents a pop music career for himself – without recording any songs.

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Jon Ronson on the Longform Podcast.

Jon Ronson The Guardian Feb 2015 10min Permalink

Arts Music

Joni Mitchell, Unyielding

The singer-songwriter has a calico cat named Nietzsche.

Carl Swanson New York Feb 2015 15min Permalink

Arts Business Food

The Company Man

The rise and fall of former McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson.

Ben Austen Chicago Mar 2015 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

Some Different Ways of Looking at Selma

The dramatic liberties a much-heralded film takes with historical fact show how hard it is to get complexity onto the big screen.

Darryl Pinckney New York Review of Books Feb 2015 15min Permalink

Arts World Movies & TV

The Reddest Carpet

The surreal pageantry of the North Korean Film Festival makes Hollywood look demure.

Mitch Moxley GQ Mar 2015 15min Permalink

Arts

My Dad, the Pornographer

How the author’s father wrote over 400 pieces of “pirate porn, ghost porn, science-fiction porn, vampire porn, historical porn, time-travel porn, secret-agent porn, thriller porn, zombie porn and Atlantis porn.”

Chris Offutt New York Times Magazine Feb 2015 10min Permalink

Arts

You'll Never Write About Me Again

A journalist and documentarian charts over a decade of her relationship with Philip Roth.

Livia Manera Sambuy The Believer Jan 2015 20min Permalink

Arts Movies & TV

“They Have Your Emails.”

Seth Rogen, Amy Pascal, and the inside story of Sony’s hacking saga.

Mark Seal Vanity Fair Feb 2015 30min Permalink

Arts

To Steal a Mockingbird?

How Harper Lee was duped into signing away the rights to To Kill a Mockingbird, which still sells 750,000 copies per year, and how she’s fighting to get them back.

Mark Seal Vanity Fair Jul 2013 30min Permalink

Arts

The Long, Strange Purgatory of Casey Kasem

The tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.

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Previously: Amy Wallace on the Longform Podcast.

Amy Wallace GQ Jan 2015 20min Permalink

Arts Music

The True Life Confessions of Fleetwood Mac

In the wake of Rumours, the band endures a series of break-ups.

Cameron Crowe Rolling Stone Mar 1977 30min Permalink

Arts

David Simon Does Not Care What You Think Is Cool About His TV Shows

On the set of ‘Show Me a Hero,’ his new HBO miniseries, Simon is as impassioned, cantankerous, and uncompromising as ever.

Amos Barshad Grantland Jan 2015 15min Permalink

Arts

What About Bob?

Long a cult favorite in comedy, Bob Odenkirk has finally found wider recognition—and respect—through a shady character named Saul.

Jeff Ruby Chicago Jan 2015 15min Permalink

Arts

The Guardians Who Slumbereth Not

Mel and Norma Gabler of Longview, Texas, want to tell your children what to learn in school.

William Martin Texas Monthly Nov 1982 30min Permalink

Arts Music

The Genius of Moondog

How a blind, destitute man became a world-class composer while living on the streets of New York.

Zachary Crockett Priceonomics Jan 2015 15min Permalink

Arts

The Boy Who Didn't Come Back From Heaven: Inside A Bestseller's 'Deception'

Alex Malarkey co-wrote a bestselling book about a near-death experience. Last week he admitted he made it up. Why wasn’t anyone listening to a quadriplegic boy and a mother who simply wanted to tell the truth?

Michelle Dean The Guardian Jan 2015 15min Permalink

Arts Music

The Invisible Woman

A conversation with Björk about Vulnicura, her new—and confessional—album about her recent break-up with Matthew Barney.

Jessica Hopper Pitchfork Jan 2015 Permalink

Arts Crime History Music

The Hunting of Billie Holiday

How the singer became the target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’ early, racially-motivated war on drugs. </br></br>

Excerpted from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.

Johann Hari Politico Magazine Jan 2015 20min Permalink

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