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Long Night at Today

The knife springs open with a satisfying snap. Matt Lauer, the co-host of the Today show, turns it over in his hand, marveling at the blade. “Come to papa!” he says. Sitting at his…
AUTHOR:Joe Hagan
PUBLISHED: March 24, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (838 words)

Winners

Scripps Howard Awards INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING Spencer S. Hsu of The Washington Post receives the $15,000 Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize, given in cooperation with Ohio University’s Scripps…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1098 words)
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The Once and Future Gov

America’s most futuristic governor seems borne back ceaselessly into the past these days. As he shows me around his office on a crisp winter morning, California Governor Jerry Brown points out…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5941 words)

The Deferential Spirit

The Choice by Bob Woodward Simon and Schuster, 462 pp., $26.00                                      …
PUBLISHED: Sept. 19, 1996
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6044 words)

Bright Lights Film Journal

Extinguishing Features The Last Years of Richard Pryor A genius self-destructs, with a little help from Hollywood Richard Pryor should have died on June 9, 1980. Early in the evening, out of his mind…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6525 words)

Nice Guys Finish Last

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. For public distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, contact ccasey@texasmonthly.com for reprint information and fees. George…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3288 words)

Deadhead

One night in the winter of 1996, Rob Eaton, a recording engineer who’d worked with Duran Duran and Pat Metheny, showed up at the home of a high-school chemistry teacher in Petaluma, California. Eaton…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 49 minutes (12352 words)

Tom Wolfe's California by Michael Anton, City Journal Autumn 2012

In the Golden State, the great writer first chronicled the social changes that would transform America. TED STRESHINSKY/CORBIS Wolfe (right) with the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia (center) and…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4886 words)

Muscle-Bound

Wolfe has argued that modern American fiction has fallen into sterility and irrelevance because novelists aren’t looking at the world. Photograph by Henry Leutwyler.
AUTHOR:James Wood
PUBLISHED: Oct. 15, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4051 words)
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