Playboy Interview: Bill Gates (1994) PLAYBOY: What else is Microsoft involved in? We’ve heard about software that can control washing machines, for instance. GATES: [Laughs] The washing machine example is extreme, but people do sometimes kid us that we see an opportunity to sell our software in broad areas. We are involved in a new […]
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Alex Pappademas: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
Alex Pappademas is a staff writer for GQ. *** Rules: Nothing not published this year, nothing from GQ, because I work there, and—in the spirit of the assignment—nothing I didn’t first read on my iPhone. (And I realize now, having done this whole thing, that everything on the main list is from a print-based publication, […]
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Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty. John Lennon, in an interview with David Sheff for Playboy; September 8-28, 1980. (via lindsaykap)
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Longreads Topic Du Jour: The Playboy Interview
Longreads Topic Du Jour: The Playboy Interview This morning we posted a classic—Alex Haley’s 1965 Playboy Interview with Martin Luther King Jr. —which served as another reminder of how many great (and, yes, long) interviews Hef’s magazine has published over the years. Here are a few more from the Longreads archive (Jimmy Carter, John & Yoko, Steve […]
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Playboy Interview: Bill Gates (1994)
Playboy Interview: Bill Gates (1994) PLAYBOY: What else is Microsoft involved in? We’ve heard about software that can control washing machines, for instance. GATES: [Laughs] The washing machine example is extreme, but people do sometimes kid us that we see an opportunity to sell our software in broad areas. We are involved in a new […]
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Kevin Smokler's Top 5 Deep Interviews of 2011
Kevin Smokler is the author of the forthcoming essay collection Practical Classics: Rereading Your Favorite Books from High School (Prometheus Books, 2013) and curator of Deep Interviews here on Longreads. *** Here on Longreads, I’m curating Deep Interviews (#deepinterviews)—lengthy interviews with interesting people—a format I’ve grown to love. It’s not quite original reporting but certainly […]
