Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours The worst of the explosions gutted the Deepwater Horizon stem to stern. Crew members were cut down by shrapnel, hurled across rooms and buried under smoking wreckage. Some were swallowed by fireballs that raced through the oil rig’s shattered interior. Dazed and battered survivors, half-naked and dripping in highly combustible gas, […]
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Deepwater Horizon's Final Hours
Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours The worst of the explosions gutted the Deepwater Horizon stem to stern. Crew members were cut down by shrapnel, hurled across rooms and buried under smoking wreckage. Some were swallowed by fireballs that raced through the oil rig’s shattered interior. Dazed and battered survivors, half-naked and dripping in highly combustible gas, […]
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Barry Hannah in Conversation with Wells Tower
Barry Hannah in Conversation with Wells Tower Hannah: The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer’s drug, but I’m glad that’s been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work. The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think […]
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Barry Hannah in Conversation with Wells Tower
Barry Hannah in Conversation with Wells Tower Hannah: The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer’s drug, but I’m glad that’s been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work. The first two drinks were always wonderfully liberating. You think […]
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'Apple and Google have the most distinct propositions for your exobrain'
‘Apple and Google have the most distinct propositions for your exobrain’ With any faith, it is fun to focus on the fanatics, but not very illuminating. On a recent trip to the Fifth Avenue store, not many faces fitted the stereotype of Apple partisans as hip, rich, Western youth. There was a man who looked […]
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@EugenePhoto: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
@EugenePhoto: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010 In case you missed it: Excellent collection from the curator of ReadingByEugene.com.
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Brendan Maher: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
I’m the biology features editor for the news team at Nature, the UK-based science journal. Longreads kindly asked me to offer up my five favourite couldn’t-put-down features for the year, and I was happy to comply. The focus on biology wasn’t intentional, but I did purposely keep features from Nature out of the running (it’s […]
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Ben Cohen: These are a few of my favorite things
Ben Cohen: These are a few of my favorite things Thank you Ben. Amazing list. bzcohen: I started using Instapaper on a plain ol’ iPod—I know, right?—around June, and I’ve since starred about 180 items, a number that, for the most part, doesn’t include the people and places I can’t not read: The Awl, and […]
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Paul Brady: My Top 5 Travel Longreads of 2010
Paul Brady is an editor at Condé Nast Traveler. *** This isn’t a list of the best travel writing of the year, but if this is what travel writing could be every time, the genre wouldn’t have such a shaky reputation. I didn’t pick anything from Traveler because that would be lame. Pass the Bucks […]
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Grandpa Joe & Secretariat: A Christmas Story
Grandpa Joe & Secretariat: A Christmas Story In mid-October, he’d seen his beloved Charlie Rose interview Diane Lane and John Malkovich. Ever since that interview, he’d been carrying with him the notion that he would see this movie at his earliest opportunity. Never mind his preceding fondness for the racehorse and its moment in history—there […]