January 2011
25 posts
‘Hut—Two—Three…Ugh!’ →
A detailed account of the writer’s very brief stint as quarterback of the Detroit Lions. A participatory journalism classic. () George Plimpton | Sports Illustrated | Sep 1964 )
Jan 31st
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Show the Monster →
A profile of director Guillermo del Toro. () Daniel Zalewski | New Yorker | Jan 2011 )
Jan 31st
Tramp-Speak of Antiquarian Road Warriors: ABC’s of... →
On the language of hobos and the dictionaries it spawned. () John Ptak | Ptak Science | Jan 2011 )
Jan 29th
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Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? →
A year-by-year walk through of the decade that birthed a mainstream culture called ‘Alternative’ and the bands that were deified and destroyed by it. () Steven Hyden | The Onion AV Club |…
Jan 29th
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Jan 28th
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Dear Nate →
The story of Nate Fleming—walk-on point guard at Oklahoma State, fan favorite, golden child—and the 2001 plane crash that took his life. () Tom Friend | ESPN | Jan 2011 )
Jan 28th
Notes on the Improved Longform.org
For the first time since launching in April, we’ve made significant design changes and added new features to Longform.org. Introducing the Longform.org Archive A central goal of the update: to expand beyond the service of posting stories daily and plant the seeds for an enduring, definitive archive of the best longform journalism available online. We view Longform.org as a resource to be...
Jan 28th
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Eden: A Gated Community →
William Langewiesche | The Atlantic | Jun 1999 What happened when the founder of North Face and Esprit bought a chunk of Chile the size of a small state, intending to live with a select group…
Jan 27th
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Dealing With Julian Assange and the Secrets He... →
Bill Keller | NYT | Jan 2011 On the cloak and dagger dealings between The New York Times and WikiLeaks. Adapted from Executive Editor Bill Keller’s forthcoming ebook, Open Secrets:…
Jan 27th
How a Giant Weapons Maker Became the New Big... →
William D. Hartung | Guernica | Jan 2011 Lockheed Martin is the largest government contractor in history. They train TSA workers and Guantanamo interrogators. Every American household pays…
Jan 26th
Holden Caulfield’s Goddam War →
Kenneth Slawenski | Vanity Fair | Feb 2011 J.D. Salinger on the beaches on D-Day, marching through concentration camps, and in liberated Paris.
Jan 25th
The Anguish of a Team Divided →
Jack Olsen | Sports Illustrated | Jul 1968 How the racism of white players and coaches ruined the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals in 1968.
Jan 23rd
The Forger’s Story →
John Gapper | Financial Times | Jan 2011 Searching for (and easily finding) Mark Augustus Landis, the man behind for the “longest, strangest forgery spree the American art world has known.”
Jan 22nd
Rio’s New Reality Show →
Lilia M. Schwarcz | NY Review of Books | Jan 2011 How the relationship between favela-based drug gangs and elite police units tasked with fighting them came to define Rio de Janeiro.
Jan 12th
The Man Who Saw Too Much →
Hampton Sides | Outside | Jan 2011 On the psychology of a rescue worker after years of responding to disaster.
Jan 11th
Tea Party in the Sonora →
Ken Silverstein | Harper’s | July 2010 On the political climate in Arizona.
Jan 10th
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“Damn Right,” I Said →
Eliot Weinberger | London Review of Books | Jan 2011 On George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points.
Jan 8th
Diary of a Murder →
Melanie Thernstrom | The New Yorker | June 1996 On the last day of their junior year at Harvard, one roommate kills the other, then hangs herself. The press descends. A year later, a reporter…
Jan 7th
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Las Terrenas →
Porter Fox | Nowhere Magazine | Oct 2010 The writer and his girlfriend move to the Dominican Republic, joining the rapidly expanding community of expats who claim to have found paradise. They…
Jan 7th
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The Man Who Spilled the Secrets →
Sarah Ellison | Vanity Fair | Feb 2011 The backstory on Julian Assange’s relationship with the Guardian and the New York Times.
Jan 6th
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Hard Core →
Natasha Vargas-Cooper | The Atlantic | Jan 2011 How Internet porn has altered the ways we think about, and engage in, sex.
Jan 6th
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Cyberspace When You’re Dead →
Rob Walker | NYT Magazine | Jan 2011 The new purgatory; what becomes of digital identities after death.
Jan 5th
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The Glory of the Rails [Part 1] →
Tony Judt | NY Review of Books | Dec 2010 “The world before the railways appeared so very different from what came afterward and from what we know today because the railways did more than…
Jan 5th
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Giving Hitler Hell →
Matthew Brzezinski | Washington Post | Jul 2005 Arnold Weiss escaped Germany as a kid in 1938, leaving his family behind. He returned seven years later, now a U.S. intelligence officer tasked…
Jan 5th
Internacionalista →
Deb Olin Unferth | The Believer | Jan 2011 Memories of the expat revolutionary scene in 1980s Nicaragua. An excerpt from Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War.
Jan 3rd