A Halloween Weekend Reading List

Boo! Read these stories about the scariest weekend of the year while getting over your candy hangovers.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 1, 2015

How Stuy Town Was Won

A look at the wheeling and dealing behind fund managers Blackstone Group and Ivanhoe Cambridge’s $5.3 billion purchase of New York City’s massive Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village housing complex. The deal, which will preserve 5,000 units of affordable housing, has made Blackstone a very unlikely darling of tenant advocates.

Source: The Real Deal
Published: Oct 29, 2015
Length: 12 minutes (3,150 words)

The Convert

An NYPD officer went undercover at Brooklyn College and made an aggressive effort to befriend and surveil law-abiding Muslims years before she ever met her alleged targets.

Source: gothamist.com
Published: Oct 29, 2015
Length: 12 minutes (3,157 words)

Welles Lettres

The first and final chapters of Orson Welles’s complicated career.

Source: Bookforum
Published: Oct 30, 2015
Length: 12 minutes (3,167 words)

At a Success Academy Charter School, Singling Out Pupils Who Have ‘Got to Go’

At Success Academy Fort Greene, the same day that Ms. Ogundiran heard from the principal, her daughter’s name was one of 16 placed on a list drawn up at his direction and shared by school leaders.

The heading on the list was “Got to Go.”

Published: Oct 30, 2015
Length: 12 minutes (3,001 words)

Man of Conviction

Mark Nicholson was convicted of manslaughter, served his time, and became a lawyer. He’s now one of Indianapolis’s top public defenders, defending the city’s poorest citizens.

Author: Adam Wren
Published: Oct 30, 2015
Length: 24 minutes (6,208 words)

Equity in Publishing: What Should Editors Be Doing?

An online roundtable about the grim state of diversity and equity in publishing.

Source: PEN American
Published: Oct 29, 2015
Length: 41 minutes (10,457 words)

Tomorrow’s Internet Turns 20

Revisiting the predictions of an American Online exec in 1995.

Source: The Awl
Published: Oct 29, 2015
Length: 9 minutes (2,303 words)

Freedom From Fries

How fast food is evolving to satiate the appetites of consumers searching for healthy options.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Oct 26, 2015
Length: 26 minutes (6,630 words)

American Horror Story: The Cecil Hotel

The case of a missing woman goes viral after the Los Angeles Police Department releases a short video of the woman acting strangely in an elevator right before her disappearance.

Author: Josh Dean
Source: Matter
Published: Oct 27, 2015
Length: 36 minutes (9,022 words)