It’s Too Late to Die Young Now

Andrew Mueller covered grunge and Britpop for the legendary UK music weekly Melody Maker. Biographile talks to him about working as a rock journalist during the the late-eighties to the mid-nineties, “the last hurrah for the music scene as we knew it.”

Source: Biographile
Published: May 21, 2015
Length: 16 minutes (4,000 words)

The Body Behind the Little White Church

A tiny Appalachian town is rocked by secrets after a 25-year-old woman goes missing.

Source: Narratively
Published: Jul 23, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,510 words)

‘Why Can’t You Behave?’

Called ‘the Medea of Kew Gardens,’ Alice Crimmins was accused of murdering her own children in New York in 1965. Fifty years later, Sarah Weinman revisits the case and the manner in which Crimmins was tried in the court of public opinion.

Source: Hazlitt
Published: Jul 16, 2015
Length: 20 minutes (5,200 words)

Distressed Denim

Levi Strauss may have invented jeans, but yoga pants have fundamentally changed the market. Can the company win back their customer base?

Published: Jul 21, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,670 words)

The Vegas Plot

“How do you predict what evil someone is capable of?” The story of right-wing extremists, and the undercover cops who busted them.

Published: Jul 24, 2015
Length: 23 minutes (5,874 words)

Chasing Bayla

A 2014 Pulitzer Prize finalist by Sarah Schweitzer about the quest to save a North Atlantic right whale. The whales’ numbers are dwindling from deaths due to getting ensnared in fishing ropes.

Source: Boston Globe
Published: Oct 24, 2014
Length: 27 minutes (6,852 words)

The Heroin Heroine of Reddit

How a former heroin addict turned public health advocate uses the internet to save lives.

Source: Backchannel
Published: Jul 21, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,623 words)

Krakauer’s Missoula and the Scrutiny of Reporters Who Cover Rape

Like the victims whose stories they tell, reporters who cover rape will often face considerable challenges to their credibility. CJR looks at how Jon Krakauer reported his new book “Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town,” in the context of other reporting on rape.

Published: Jul 15, 2015
Length: 10 minutes (2,595 words)

Joe Gould’s Teeth

Jill Lepore searches for the longest book ever written.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jul 23, 2015
Length: 42 minutes (10,528 words)

Warhol’s Children

A 2007 profile of the late New York artist Dash Snow and his downtown crew.

Author: Ariel Levy
Published: Nov 25, 2007
Length: 12 minutes (3,231 words)