What Was the Hipster?

If I speak of the degeneration of our most visible recent subculture, the hipster, it’s an awkward occasion. Someone will point out that hipsters are not dead, they still breathe, they live on my block. Yet it is evident that we have reached the end of an epoch in the life of the type.

Author: Mark Greif
Published: Oct 24, 2010
Length: 14 minutes (3,697 words)

Newsboy

Looking for one last turn in the spotlight, 92 year old Sidney Harman paid his dollar for Newsweek. And Tina Brown was all set to dance. So why did it fall apart?

Published: Oct 24, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,649 words)

Chasing Fox

The loud, cartoonish blood sport that’s engorged MSNBC, exhausted CNN — and is making our body politic delirious.

Published: Oct 3, 2010
Length: 25 minutes (6,385 words)

The Vulture Transcript: David Sedaris

So about seven years ago I wrote a story about a cat in a bad mood. And then the next fall another one. So I tried to write a few every year, but for every one that worked, there were two that didn’t. And then, obviously, I stepped it up over the past year and a half, once I got the actual deadline. I set up a few rules for myself. I didn’t want any animal to have a name. If you say that a rabbit’s name was, oh I don’t know, sometimes someone will have a cat, and you ask, “What’s your cat’s name?” And they say, “Critter!” And you think, Oh, I hate your cat. And they say, “Diane.” And you think, I like your cat.

Published: Sep 29, 2010
Length: 23 minutes (5,772 words)

Ready to Be Rich

David Tepper, whose hedge fund made a killing during the crash by betting the government wouldn’t let the big banks fail, is coming out of the billionaire closet.

Published: Sep 26, 2010
Length: 17 minutes (4,307 words)

The Demon Blogger of Fleet Street

Nick Denton cast himself as a media outsider. That’s how he made it inside.

Published: Sep 26, 2010
Length: 16 minutes (4,051 words)

The Man Who Fell to Shore

Reid Stowe spent 1,152 days on the open sea, the longest continuous journey ever undertaken by one person. He came back to a brand-new family, but not exactly a hero’s welcome.

Published: Sep 19, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,546 words)

America Is a Joke

The worst of times for politics and media has been the best of times for The Daily Show’s host‚ and unfortunately things are getting even funnier

Published: Sep 12, 2010
Length: 20 minutes (5,022 words)

Skin

The lampshade emerged from the wreckage of Katrina. But was it really what it appeared to be — a Buchenwald artifact made of human remains? A Holocaust detective story.

Published: Sep 5, 2010
Length: 28 minutes (7,208 words)

The Billionaire and the Book Lover

Are Barnes & Noble founder Len Riggio and his nemesis Ron Burkle the only people in America who still want to own a mega-bookstore?

Published: Aug 22, 2010
Length: 18 minutes (4,691 words)