The Year in Pivoting to Video
For many magazine editors recently, work has meant a brief span of highly satisfying work and eventually losing their job to make room for videos that people may not even want to watch online.
The President of Blank Sucking Nullity
“It is not quite fair to say that Donald Trump lacks core beliefs, but to the extent that we can take apart these beliefs they amount to Give Donald Trump Your Money and Donald Trump Should Really Be on Television More.”
Longreads Best of 2012: David Roth
David Roth is a co-founder of, writer for and editor at the sports website The Classical. He writes columns for Sports On Earth and Vice, co-writes The Daily Fix blog-column for the Wall Street Journal online, and writes for The Awl, GQ and other places when there’s time and when they’ll have him. He’s on Twitter, a lot, @david_j_roth.
Guru: Hard-Earned
Tupac is dead, Biggie is dead, but they’re still fairly iconic 14 years after their deaths. Guru from Gang Starr, who died at 43 on Tuesday after months in a medically-induced coma, passed before his time, too, but he was different from those iconic stars in basically every other way.
