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People Don’t Get Depressed in Nigeria

Exclusive essay from the print issue of 120 Granta: Medicine. It is a cold January morning and I am sitting in a cafe on a busy London street. Looking out of the window, I watch people bustle…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3656 words)

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: A Remembrance

I've had guns pulled on me by four people under Central Mississippi skies — once by a white undercover cop, once by a young brother trying to rob me for the leftovers of a weak work-study check, once…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4724 words)

The Audition

Mike Tetreault has spent an entire year preparing obsessively for this moment. He's put in 20-hour workdays, practiced endlessly, and shut down his personal  life. Now the percussionist has 10…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4244 words)

The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever

When Bill Fong approaches the lane, 15-pound bowling ball in hand, he tries not to breathe. He tries not to think about not breathing. He wants his body to perform a series of complex movements that…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2280 words)

The Many Pivots Of Justin.tv: How A Livecam Show Became Home To Video Gaming Superstars

Photo by Jason Madara It was when the San Francisco police burst into his apartment, guns drawn, that Justin Kan first found cause to question his business model. The incident--later immortalized on…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4533 words)

Tupac Shakur, the Los Angeles Times, and Why I'm Still Unemployed: A Personal History by Chuck Philips

For years, Chuck Philips produced some of the best reporting on the shooting deaths of Tupac Shakur and Biggie SmallsLast week, a trial in Brooklyn started off with a strange twist. At the federal…
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4685 words)

The frequent fliers who flew too much

There are frequent fliers, and then there are people like Steven Rothstein and Jacques Vroom. Both men bought tickets that gave them unlimited first-class travel for life on American Airlines. It was…
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2376 words)

Howard Schultz Gave Out $3.50 Starbucks Gift Cards: An Insider's Notes On The Shabby Death Of The Seattle SuperSonics

For those fans who believe that the only acceptable NBA champion is any team that's not the Miami Heat, the tempting choice is Oklahoma City. The Thunder have Kevin Durant's superlative set of…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5026 words)
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