In the summer of 2012, a homeless man named William Greer Jr. was bludgeoned to death in a park in Austin, Texas. Greer’s case remains unsolved, and his daughter is determined to find answers: “In the weeks that followed her dad’s death, Tangie drove to Austin three times: once to speak to police, once to […]
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The Weeklies
Inside the lives of homeless families who are staying at a Ramada Inn in the Colorado suburbs: “At any given time, roughly 20 to 40 guests are staying long term. Since they pay by the week, they call themselves ‘weeklies.’ To score the cheap rates, $210 for individuals and slightly more for families, they must […]
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Homies: What Happened to Everyone I Went to Middle School With?
Two friends meet up in Bangkok and talk about what became of their childhood friends from the wealthy Seattle neighborhood where they grew up: “Tim keeps naming mutual acquaintances, and they keep having the same dire fates. There’s Pete Stanton, who in seventh grade had a mustache and was the biggest 13-year-old on the planet. […]
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Transport: On Leaving New York for Rehab in Minnesota
“I learned to drive. But I never liked it.”
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‘He’s Our Baby’: What Happens When a Child Is Placed in Foster Care
“Who should get to keep a child: the parents who nurse and tend him, or the parents who brought him into the world?”
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The Time Jason Zengerle and a Gorilla Stalked Michael Moore for Might Magazine
Jason Zengerle | Might magazine | 1997 | 19 minutes (4,685 words) Introduction Thanks to our Longreads Members’ support, we tracked down a vintage story from Dave Eggers’s Might Magazine. It’s from Jason Zengerle, a correspondent for GQ and contributing editor for New York magazine who’s been featured on Longreads often in the past.
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Transport: On Leaving New York for Rehab in Minnesota
“I learned to drive. But I never liked it.”
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My Son is Schizophrenic. The ‘Reforms’ That I Worked for Have Worsened His Life
A former state legislator considers how the laws he helped pass ultimately harmed his mentally ill son: “If you were to encounter my son, Tim, a tall, gaunt man in ragged clothes, on a San Francisco street, you might step away from him. His clothes, his dark unshaven face and his wild curly hair stamp […]
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The Well-Hung Boy Next Door
Men rarely become porn stars, but James Deen has found a large following simply by being “average”: “James Deen, whose real name is Bryan Sevilla, grew up in Pasadena, California. His parents are both, after a fashion, rocket scientists. His father is a mechanical engineer for NASA. His mother does data analysis for the space […]
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Bath Salts: Deep in the Heart of America’s New Drug Nightmare
[Not single-page] A new lab-brewed drug epidemic has law-enforcement officials scrambling to contain it. “The last four decades have seen plenty of whipped-up hysteria about various fad intoxicants of the moment. But the fear generated by bath salts seems well earned. Dr. Mark Ryan, director at the Louisiana Poison Center, called bath salts ‘the worst […]
