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Longreads Member Pick: Someone Could Get Hurt (Chapter 1), by Drew Magary

Introduction For this week's Member Pick, we're thrilled to share the first chapter of Drew Magary's new memoir on fatherhood,  "I was in the middle of writing a second novel that would…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1103 words)

Cover Story: Daft Punk

Daft Punk started working on Random Access Memories in 2008, playing almost everything on their own and making loops, just like they had done before. But it didn't feel right. “It became clear…
LENGTH: 3 minutes (916 words)

“Why’s this so good?” No. 76: William Nack and “Pure Heart”

by Don Van Natta Jr. | April 23, 2013 I still remember where I was—sitting in a dive bar in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., trying to tune out the noise from the beach bums and a jukebox blaring…
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2753 words)

“Why’s this so good?” No. 75: Dan P. Lee and the father who lost everything

by Joe Keohane | April 9, 2013 My estimable friend and former colleague Paul Kix recently wrote a column in this space on John Jeremiah Sullivan. In it he cited an essay Sulliv
PUBLISHED: April 9, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2067 words)

“How’d you find that secret-compartments story, Brendan Koerner?”

Brendan Koerner’s recent Wired piece about Alfred Anaya, a “genius at installing secret compartments in cars,” was nothing short of delicious as a piece of storytelling and…
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (815 words)

Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 2

Pamela Colloff’s annotated “The Innocent Man” continues today, with the second and final part. (To read Part 1, go here.) The timing couldn’t be better. On…
PUBLISHED: April 2, 2013
LENGTH: 75 minutes (18952 words)

One of Us

These are stimulating times for anyone interested in questions of animal consciousness. On what seems like a monthly basis, scientific teams announce the results of new experiments, adding to a…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3453 words)

Annotation Tuesday! Pamela Colloff and the innocent man, Part 1

In November and December, Texas Monthly‘s Pamela Colloff wrote a two-part series on the wrongful conviction of Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison in the murder of his
PUBLISHED: March 19, 2013
LENGTH: 78 minutes (19683 words)

Annotation Tuesday! Chris Jones and “Animals”

By now you’ve probably heard the story: In October 2011, a suicidal man named Terry Thompson uncaged dozens of wild animals that he kept on his farm in Zanesville, Ohio, and then shot himself.…
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2013
LENGTH: 63 minutes (15826 words)
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