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How to Solve Homelessness: The Mundane Miracles of The Doe Fund

The next mayor of New York City will not be George McDonald, though George McDonald is running for mayor. That's OK. George McDonald is already better than any mayor has ever been at addressing the…
SOURCE:gawker.com
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2370 words)

Dear 02A3172: Letters To and From a Caged Bird

In 1999, when I was 19 years old, I was arrested and charged with first degree murder, several counts of attempted murder, attempted robbery, and several counts of criminal use of a weapon. I was…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3785 words)

The Year We Found Goatse and Visited the KKK: The Best of Gawker's 2012 Longreads

Sometimes, instead of writing 40 words to go along with a viral Internet video, we write many words. Thousands of words, even. Since we do this somewhat frequently, those pieces can be easy to miss.…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1378 words)

The Internet's Best Terrible Person Goes to Jail: Can a Reviled Master Troll Become a Geek Hero?

On a gray Wednesday morning in October, the car headed west on the Lincoln Highway Bridge hit 100 miles per hour and I started to worry it might hurtle off into the tangle of rusted-out warehouses…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5977 words)
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Unmasking Reddit's Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web

Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company where he works as a programmer and he was having a bad day. I had just told him, on…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4745 words)

Origins of a Murder

1. The boy wears sweatpants the color of a Louisiana lake; later, the police report will note them as blue, though in every description his mother gives thereafter she will always insist on…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4701 words)

Confessions of a Part-Time Sexy Dyke and Full-Time Wandering Immigrant

Sometime in the middle of this summer, I came up with the title "Confessions of a Part-Time Sexy Dyke" for my web series. I imagined the series remixing the traditional American queer coming-of-age…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1798 words)

Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children

It's not easy to listen to Terry talk about the time he had sex with a seven-year-old girl. But after his psychotherapist put us in touch, he agreed to lay it all out for me during a phone call and…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3422 words)

Kanye West Is Better at His Job Than I Am at Mine (But I’m Way Better at Being a Fake-Ass Feminist)

My grandmother married a beautiful brown troll named HaLester "Les" Myers 20 years ago. The Christmas before last, Les slumped across from me in Grandma's gaudy pink throne while she finished making…
SOURCE:gawker.com
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3907 words)
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