Meet the Heroes of Early Scientology Reporting Then came the six-part expose published June 24th through 29th, 1990, in the Los Angeles Times, a story that conclusively divided the wheat from the chaff where Scientology rumors were concerned. Joel Sappell and Robert W. Welkos spent five years on the story and it was, and still […]
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Cannibals Seeking Same: A Visit To The Online World Of Flesh-Eaters
Cannibals Seeking Same: A Visit To The Online World Of Flesh-Eaters On the Cannibal Café’s forums were men looking for men, men looking for women (the ideal: short, buxom, thin redheads) and women looking for men—very few posts, if any, were for women looking for women. There were people who wanted to be eaten and […]
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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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I fucked up with Aunt Mimi, the first time I met her. I was greeted, I was shown the bird feeder where the birds came to keep her company, I was shown around the place. And then I said, “wow, I’ve never been in a trailer before.” I meant it nicely. I liked trailers; I […]
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LOGAN: So it’s not necessarily the idea that media coverage of this event will make anyone that has any power change anything, but that it will inspire us to change stuff ourselves? SAM: I mean, partially. Anything like this always has 500 million different goals and other things that it’s going to accomplish without even […]
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Featured Longreader: Writer/editor Dan Kois. See his story picks from The New York Times Magazine, The Awl, New York Magazine and more on his #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Writer Benjamin Freed. See his story picks from The Awl, The AV CLub, The New Yorker and more on his #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Jana Fitzgerald, editor at Nomad Editions. See her story picks from The Awl, Susan Orlean and more on her #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Jana Fitzgerald, editor at Nomad Editions. See her story picks from The Awl, Susan Orlean and more on her #longreads page.
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Arbitrage is a risk-free way of making money by exploiting the difference between the price of a given good on two different markets—it’s the proverbial free lunch you were told doesn’t exist. In this equation, the undervalued good in question is hog meat, and McDonald’s exploits the value differential between pork’s cash price on the […]
