Juli Weiner blogs for Vanity Fair.
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These are the pieces I sent out to friends with the all-caps subject line, “THIS.” These are the pieces I come back to when I’m looking to improve my own writing. These are the pieces I’ll be re-reading well into 2011.
Jon Ronson: And God Created Controversy, The Guardian, October 9, 2010
Hilarious discussion about theology with members of Insane Clown Posse.
Nathan Heller: Trench Coat, Unlit Cigar, Slate, July 13, 2010
The beautifully written deconstruction of the Wise and Cranky Kaplan Twitter feeds.
Nancy Jo Sales: The Suspects Wore Louboutins, Vanity Fair, March 2010
Dishy account of the celebrity-worship and avarice that fueled a spate of burglaries in Los Angeles.
David Grann: The Mark of a Masterpiece, The New Yorker, July 12, 2010
The history of American connoisseurship takes the form of an impossible-to-stop-reading crime drama.
David Segal: A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web, The New York Times, November 26, 2010
A gripping and legitimately terrifying account of an online conman and the insidious side-effects of poor customer reviews.
