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How Vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne Relentlessly Pursued the O.J. Simpson Story
Despite being a little self-congratulatory (it is, after all, a story in Vanity Fair about articles written for Vanity Fair), Hogan’s piece offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes view of Dominick Dunne’s legendary coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial. Dunne was one of two journalists with a guaranteed seat at the proceedings, and as Jeffrey Toobin said, […]
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Corruption–and Copulation–in the Baltimore City Detention Center
Joyce Mitchell, alleged accomplice to two murderers on the loose from Clinton-Dannemora correctional facility in New York, is hardly the only prison employee to ever have allegedly aided—and had sex with—detainees. From Jeffrey Toobin’s “This Is My Jail” in the April 14, 2014 issue of The New Yorker: Many relationships between guards and inmates appear to have […]
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New York Magazine's Ben Williams: My Top Longreads of 2011
Ben Williams is the online editorial director at New York Magazine. ••• 1. Celebrity profiles are the hardest genre to make fresh. So props to GQ for doing it not once but three times, with Jessica Pressler on Channing Tatum, Edith Zimmerman on Chris Evans, and Will Leitch on Michael Vick. With Pressler and Zimmerman, […]
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How the Supreme Court dismantled campaign-finance reform—and how government missteps in the Citizens United case inadvertently aided in its undoing: Alito wanted to push Stewart down a slippery slope. Since McCain-Feingold forbade the broadcast of ‘electronic communications’ shortly before elections, this was a case about movies and television commercials. What else might the law regulate? […]
