The NRA’s Murder Mystery

The NRA’s top lawyer was convicted of murder, then freed over bad police work. What really happened?

Source: Mother Jones
Published: Jul 28, 2014
Length: 28 minutes (7,000 words)

Longreads’ Best of WordPress, Vol. 3

Here are 10 of our favorite stories right now from Aeon, Grantland, Brooklyn Quarterly, The Awl, Texas Observer and more.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 12, 2014

16 And Famous

How Nash Grier became the most popular kid in the world, one six second video at a time.

Source: HuffPost
Published: Aug 7, 2014
Length: 20 minutes (5,090 words)

Robin Williams: 1951-2014

Five interviews with the late actor and comedian.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 11, 2014

At 18, Tavi Gevinson Is a Fashion Veteran—and a Broadway Rookie

A profile of a teen icon, after graduation. “‘She likes to argue and so do I,’ says [Kenneth] Lonergan, ‘and she’s really smart and so am I, so you end up having these discussions about interesting and broad-ranging topics. But then I find it very charming that she’ll go from mentioning a talk she gave in Australia at 16 to complaining about ‘Why does my dad care if I go to bed late?’ Or how annoying it is that her best friend is in Costa Rica and she can’t text her.'”

Published: Aug 10, 2014
Length: 15 minutes (3,824 words)

Searching for Joe K

Right in the middle of summer, a mysterious book started arriving in hundreds of Swedes’ mailboxes, but no one knew who wrote it, or why it was being distributed. Intrigued, two Swedish journalists set off to unravel a mystery that had baffled the book’s recipients for seven years.

Source: Metro
Published: Jul 18, 2014
Length: 24 minutes (6,000 words)

You’re 16. You’re a Pedophile. You Don’t Want to Hurt Anyone. What Do You Do Now?

Reporter Luke Malone talks to a teenager who, after realizing he is a pedophile, seeks help and starts a support group for people like him. “I asked them if they knew anyone like that, and a few weeks later I received an email. ‘My name is Adam,’ it read. ‘I’m 18 and non-exclusively attracted to boys and girls of all ages (particularly very young ones). I am the leader of a support group for non-offending pedophiles around my age… I would be very happy to talk with you.'” Warning: This story includes graphic details of child abuse.

Additional reading: The Awl’s Choire Sicha interviews Luke Malone about how he reported the story.

Source: Medium
Published: Aug 11, 2014
Length: 31 minutes (7,911 words)

Cats and Their People: A Reading List

This week’s reading list from Emily includes stories from SPIN, Rookie, Aeon, and xoJane.

Source: Longreads
Published: Aug 10, 2014

The Tragedy of Louis Scarcella

How the face of NYC’s tough-on-crime era went from Supercop to scapegoat after a series of questionable from convictions.

Source: Village Voice
Published: Aug 5, 2014
Length: 26 minutes (6,676 words)

On Being Stalked

Novelist Helen DeWitt on the harrowing experience of being stalked, and the ways in which the legal system failed her.

Published: Aug 21, 2014
Length: 15 minutes (3,985 words)