The Man Who Spilled the Secrets On the afternoon of November 1, 2010, Julian Assange, the Australian-born founder of WikiLeaks.org, marched with his lawyer into the London office of Alan Rusbridger, the editor of The Guardian. Assange was pallid and sweaty, his thin frame racked by a cough that had been plaguing him for weeks. […]
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kimaskew: My Favorite #Longreads This Week
kimaskew: In Search of Spiraling Time (Bookslut) The Man Who Spilled the Secrets (Vanity Fair) Michael Chabon: How to Salvage a “Wrecked” Novel (The Atlantic) David Mitchell: Earth calling Taylor (FT.com)
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Kate Silver: Bringing Up Kennedy: A Longreads List
Kate Silver: Bringing Up Kennedy: A Longreads List frontofbook: The February Vanity Fair is out, and in the feature well is a look at the JFK inaugural, 50 years later. (Justin Bieber’s youthful mug adorns the cover, not Jack’s.) It seems like, oh, just last month, the mag excerpted Greg Lawrence’s Jackie as Editor. Because […]
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George Lois on Advertising and the Death of the Magazine Cover
George Lois on Advertising and the Death of the Magazine Cover “[Magazine covers] are very carefully researched. They test them: ‘Do you like this line better than this one?’ If you have to depend on blurbs to have people buy your magazine then you’ve got a piece of shit! You don’t have a brand! You […]
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The Wave-Maker: On Big Wave Surfer Ken Bradshaw
The Wave-Maker: On Big Wave Surfer Ken Bradshaw [Mark] Foo said, “But, no, no, this is really it, isn’t it? Just two guys in the water. Fifteen- to 18-foot swells. Perfect waves. No sections. This is as good as it gets.” Bradshaw said, “Yes, Mark. This is what it’s about.” A light came on in […]
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Bohemian Cove: Inside Malibu's Hottest Trailer Park
Bohemian Cove: Inside Malibu’s Hottest Trailer Park In the 1990s, some of the trailers at Paradise Cove went for as little as $25,000, while trailers with an ocean view sold for up to $400,000. But in the housing boom of 2006, prices went up tenfold, much more than in the rest of Malibu, even though […]
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The Rude Warrior
The Rude Warrior At the time of Mel Gibson’s July 2006 arrest for driving under the influence, he had just come back from shooting Apocalypto in Mexico, where he’d apparently started drinking again. According to one source, his first reaction when he was pulled over (before going off on the Jews), never reported in the […]
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A Declaration of Cyber-War
A Declaration of Cyber-War In the end, the most important thing now publicly known about Stuxnet is that Stuxnet is now publicly known. That knowledge is, on the simplest level, a warning: America’s own critical infrastructure is a sitting target for attacks like this. That aside, if Stuxnet really did attack Iran’s nuclear program, it […]
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“Which city do you pity most?” I ask just before the elevator doors close. They laugh and in unison say, “Vallejo!” “California and Bust.” — Michael Lewis, Vanity Fair See more #longreads from Michael Lewis
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Remembering “Rapper’s Delight” producer Sylvia Robinson, who died yesterday. “He would say something every now and then, like ‘Throw your hands in the air,’ and they’d do it. If he’d said, ‘Jump in the river,’ they’d have done it.” Inspiration struck. “A spirit said to me, ‘Put a concept like that on a record and […]
