The Toppling of Saddam’s Statue: How the Media Inflated a Minor Moment in a Long War “I realized this was a big deal,” McCoy told me. “You’ve got all the press out there and everybody is liquored up on the moment. You have this Paris, 1944, feel. I remember thinking, The media is watching the […]
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Sober Traveling: AA Roadside Assistance for a Recovering Alcoholic
Sober Traveling: AA Roadside Assistance for a Recovering Alcoholic My goal for this trip in the winter of 2008 is to drive from California to a conference in Florida and back, attend AA meetings in seven states and see how they differ — and how they don’t. I have two fears: that a low-budget camping […]
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The Squid Hunter
The Squid Hunter Steve O’Shea, a marine biologist from New Zealand, is one of the hunters—but his approach is radically different. He is not trying to find a mature giant squid; rather, he is scouring the ocean for a baby, called a paralarva, which he can grow in captivity. This year, he told me, he […]
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The Squid Hunter
The Squid Hunter Steve O’Shea, a marine biologist from New Zealand, is one of the hunters—but his approach is radically different. He is not trying to find a mature giant squid; rather, he is scouring the ocean for a baby, called a paralarva, which he can grow in captivity. This year, he told me, he […]
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India's New Generation of Caste Busters
India’s New Generation of Caste Busters Misal embodies the type of person who will truly transform India: not an engineer or a financier, but an average person who refuses to be satisfied with the status he was born to. Umred rioted because its people had somehow acquired the courage of their own dissatisfaction. But what […]
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India's New Generation of Caste Busters
India’s New Generation of Caste Busters Misal embodies the type of person who will truly transform India: not an engineer or a financier, but an average person who refuses to be satisfied with the status he was born to. Umred rioted because its people had somehow acquired the courage of their own dissatisfaction. But what […]
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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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Ginsberg Internets the Internet: The longest reads in the world
Ginsberg Internets the Internet: The longest reads in the world jordanginsberg: I’m trying out a new “blog character” who only posts quotes and makes lists. It is going to be a big hit on the Internet, I reckon. Also, it is pretty amazing that the Longreads phenomenon has taken off, that there is a determined […]
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Ryan Seacrest: 'Dark Lord of Hosts'
Ryan Seacrest: ‘Dark Lord of Hosts’ Napping is for mortals. The Angel of the Bottomless Pit has souls to harvest, a mission demanding as much science as art. Seacrest’s voice — full of wiseass pep — has worked on radio for more than half his present incarnation, dating to his high school days in suburban […]
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Ryan Seacrest: 'Dark Lord of Hosts'
Ryan Seacrest: ‘Dark Lord of Hosts’ Napping is for mortals. The Angel of the Bottomless Pit has souls to harvest, a mission demanding as much science as art. Seacrest’s voice — full of wiseass pep — has worked on radio for more than half his present incarnation, dating to his high school days in suburban […]