James Patterson Inc.

Like most authors, James Patterson started out with one book, released in 1976, that he struggled to get published. It sold about 10,000 copies, a modest, if respectable, showing for a first novel. Last year, an estimated 14 million copies of his books in 38 different languages found their way onto beach blankets, airplanes and nightstands around the world

Published: Jan 20, 2010
Length: 31 minutes (7,819 words)

The Changeling

A new biography of Edith Wharton.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Apr 16, 2007
Length: 16 minutes (4,065 words)

How America Can Rise Again

Is America going to hell? After a year of economic calamity that many fear has sent us into irreversible decline, the author finds reassurance in the peculiarly American cycle of crisis and renewal, and in the continuing strength of the forces that have made the country great.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Feb 1, 2010
Length: 10 minutes (2,744 words)

The Chess Master and the Computer

In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next, making my moves over a period of more than five hours. The four leading chess computer manufacturers had sent their top models, including eight named after me from the electronics firm Saitek.

Published: Feb 11, 2010
Length: 8 minutes (2,036 words)

Nancy Pelosi Doesn’t Care if You Like Her

Everybody’s got something to say about the most powerful woman in the world. Right, Left, smart, stupid — they all paint her their own way, to their own advantage. But she just wants to win.

Source: Esquire
Published: Feb 1, 2010
Length: 28 minutes (7,244 words)

On Proliferation, Climate, and Oil: Solving for Pattern

Source: Foreign Policy
Published: Jan 21, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,466 words)

Roll Over, Charles Darwin!

On the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s masterwork, the author visits Kentucky’s Creation Museum, which has been battling science and reason since 2007.

Author: A.A. Gill
Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Feb 1, 2010
Length: 9 minutes (2,334 words)

Shalom on the range:

In search of the American Crypto-Jew

Published: Dec 1, 2009
Length: 31 minutes (7,865 words)

Reid Faces Battles in Washington and at Home

Reid has another battle waiting at home: to save his seat in the Senate. The longer Reid has served as Democratic leader, the more Nevada voters have turned against him.

Published: Jan 12, 2010
Length: 21 minutes (5,436 words)

Post Apocalypse

Inside the messy collapse of a great newspaper.

Published: Jan 19, 2010
Length: 9 minutes (2,334 words)