Rolling Stone Cover Story, 1970: The Odyssey of Captain Beefheart Beefheart stubbornly continues what he’s doing and waits patiently for everyone else to come around. He has steadfastly refused to leave the Magic Band or to abandon the integrity of his art. “I realize,” he says, “that somebody playing free music isn’t as commercial as […]
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Geoff Van Dyke: My Top 6 Longreads of 2010
Geoff Van Dyke is deputy editor of 5280 Magazine in Denver. *** The Future of Advertising, by Danielle Sacks, Fast Company A must-read for anyone in the media business. Innocence Lost, by Pamela Colloff, Texas Monthly Instrumental in getting a Texas man off death row and out of prison. Burger Queen, by Lauren Collins, The […]
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Program Note: Welcoming Rolling Stone to the #Longreads Community
Program Note: Welcoming Rolling Stone to the #Longreads Community Taibbi, Bob Marley, Captain Beefheart and Obama: All of our previous Rolling Stone story picks are on their Longreads page.
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Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail?
Why Isn’t Wall Street In Jail? Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer. “Everything’s fucked up, and nobody goes to jail,” he said. “That’s your whole story right there. Hell, you don’t even have to write […]
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Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators theatlantic: This is like something right out of “The Manchurian Candidate”: The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the […]
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The Stoner Arms Dealers
The Stoner Arms Dealers David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli had picked the perfect moment to get into the arms business. To fight simultaneous wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the Bush administration had decided to outsource virtually every facet of America’s military operations, from building and staffing Army bases to hiring mercenaries to provide security […]
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The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good
The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good doree: Guy Lawson, “The Stoner Arms Dealers,” Rolling Stone Jessica Hopper, “Wild Flag: An Eight-Part Examination,” Nashville Scene S.J. Culver, “On Expectations (And a Writer’s Lack of Shame),” The Awl Ben Kafka, “Pushing Paper,” Lapham’s Quarterly Nitsuh Abebe, “SXSW Diary: Pitchfork’s…
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Coming April 13th! Rolling Stone and Longreads present: A night of long-form journalism. Join us at Housing Works in NYC for a special panel with Rob Sheffield, Jeff Goodell, and more. Moderated by Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana. 7 pm. Free. More details here
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rollingstone: If you’re in NYC, please come to our Night of Long-Form Journalism panel Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Housing Works, which we’re presenting in conjunction with Longreads. To get you ready for the panel, we’ve collected a couple great stories from each of the three panelists: Jeff Goodell, Brian Hiatt and Rob Sheffield. Jeff […]
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shakespeareandshoes: soupsoup: Rob Sheffield and company at Rolling Stone Longreads (Taken with Instagram at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe) such a wonderful discussion tonight! sammie rubes and i were sitting way in the back but still really enjoyed the journalism war stories and advice Thanks everyone for a fun night with Rolling Stone, Longreads and Housing […]
