Best longform magazine articles

**stradissimo** · 03-13-2017, 07:29 PM

Good stuff.

Here are some I've liked:

This one is famous.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...ld-gay-talese/

These two are, I think, obscure.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...4/the-wayfarer

**iceman** · 03-13-2017, 07:38 PM

Originally Posted by bennymac

A diver exploring the bottom of a super deep cave makes a grisly discovery

Raising the Dead - By: Tim Zimmermann Aug 1, 2005 - Outside Magazine
https://www.outsideonline.com/1922711/raising-dead

Rough one to read but thanks.

**dunfree** · 03-13-2017, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by ill-advised strategy

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...games-part-one

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...games-part-two

If you enjoyed those, Barbarian Days is well worth a read. Same author, great perspective, and some backstory.

As I'm a dork, an old school tech article https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/

**iceman** · 03-13-2017, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by stradissimo

Good stuff.

Here are some I've liked:

This one is famous.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics...ld-gay-talese/

These two are, I think, obscure.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/14/structure
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...4/the-wayfarer

All good reads, I love McPhee (and do know how he spells it!). The wayfarer one was really good too. Melancholy but pretty amazing.

The Gay Talese one is well-known you are right but it's a good'un too.

**bennymac** · 03-13-2017, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

Rough one to read but thanks.

You can watch the video he took during that dive on youtube. I passed on the chance.

**LeeLau** · 03-13-2017, 08:32 PM

Thank you all for the reading list. Here's one that the Atlantic puts out every year

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...nalism/490622/

**wyeaster** · 03-13-2017, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by LeeLau

Thank you all for the reading list. Here's one that the Atlantic puts out every year

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...nalism/490622/

thank you for that !

**bennymac** · 03-13-2017, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by LeeLau

Thank you all for the reading list. Here's one that the Atlantic puts out every year

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...nalism/490622/

oh man this will keep me up late at night

**old goat** · 03-13-2017, 09:38 PM

Here's one from the New Yorker web site--Zambian revolutionary who pretended to be the head of the Zambian space program in the 60's and promised to reach the moon before the US. The western press at the time viewed him as a buffoon and an example of how stupid Africans were, completely missing the fact that he was satirizing the US space program as a huge waste of money.
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cul...EyMTA0MDU1NAS2

**Danno** · 03-13-2017, 10:15 PM

Subscribing to this thread.

Don't have time or energy to read books, but these interest me.

**frorider** · 03-13-2017, 10:28 PM

https://www.google.com/amp/www.newyo...chid-fever/amp

...many of you know it, I'm sure, but hey it's worth reading again.

**frorider** · 03-14-2017, 09:25 PM

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...e-ticketmaster

**bennymac** · 03-14-2017, 09:59 PM

Posted this in the recently active airplane thread in the padded room (about decompression events)

but thought I'd post it here as I found it super interesting

The Human Factor - Should Airplanes Be Flying Themselves?
By William Langewiesche Vanity Fair October 2014

"William Langewiesche explores how a series of small errors turned a state-of-the-art cockpit into a death trap."

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/busin...ight-447-crash

**iceman** · 03-14-2017, 11:27 PM

Royal Robbins' death made think of this profile of Fred Beckey. (Who is still going pretty strong it seems, 8 years later).

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/sp.../16beckey.html

**ACH** · 03-15-2017, 02:21 PM

Originally Posted by bennymac

I've been keeping a list of longform magazine/newspaper/online articles that I found intriguing and want to read again.

This one is the best I've read (with Snow Fall being a close second)

The Real Heroes Are Dead - by James B. Stewart
The New Yorker - February 11, 2002

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...eroes-are-dead

I'd be interested to hear what maggots think of this article. And what other articles stick out to them.

Thanks for starting this thread.

While I have never cracked the cover of a New Yorker (something I will be doing in the future) I used to read things like this a lot, but got out of the habit years ago due to many other distractions competing for my time.

Last night I followed your link and read "The Real Heroes are all dead".

Maybe because of recent loss in our family it struck a cord and put a lump in my throat.
Relating to the story, I agree with another earlier post that our culture today seems to be lacking in hero's that are truly deserving (but perhaps not wanting) of that status.

Regardless, I appreciated the writing and will be adding the apps recommended by others here to go further down the rabbit hole and to get back into a good habit that had gone to the wayside.

**frorider** · 03-21-2017, 06:34 PM

Interesting article related to this thread: https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ternet/519795/

**seano732** · 03-23-2017, 06:24 PM

NY Times just dropped a multi-part series on the shitshow that is no-knock warrants/SWAT team raids.....Pretty chilling. First part has some graphic video:

Part One: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...drug-raid.html

Part Two: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...rugs.html?_r=0

**iceman** · 03-23-2017, 07:02 PM

This really is the best I've seen of the new paradigm of the longform multimedia article. Superb. And if you as a skier haven't read it, you better get started right about now.

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012...t=tunnel-creek

**abraham** · 03-23-2017, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by ACH

Thanks for starting this thread.

While I have never cracked the cover of a New Yorker (something I will be doing in the future) I used to read things like this a lot, but got out of the habit years ago due to many other distractions competing for my time.

I have piles of issues from the last few years if you want a random selection to flip through

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 03-23-2017, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by abraham

I have piles of issues from the last few years if you want a random selection to flip through

They keep showing up. I think the New Yorker sets the standard for literary journalism.

**ACH** · 03-23-2017, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by abraham

I have piles of issues from the last few years if you want a random selection to flip through

That would be awesome, thanks!

**iceman** · 03-23-2017, 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by iceman;4977319
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A bit sorry to repeat myself, but have you read this yet? If not why not? Fucking read it.

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**ACH** · 03-23-2017, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by iceman

A bit sorry to repeat myself, but have you read this yet? If not why not? Fucking read it.

(link doen't work for some reson, page up a little for a working link

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012...t=tunnel-creek

Yeah, when it first came out,
Hit very close to home, within our region and I knew people involved.
It still tugs at my heart to read it...

**iceman** · 03-23-2017, 09:01 PM

Originally Posted by ACH

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012...t=tunnel-creek

Yeah, when it first came out,
Hit very close to home, within our region and I knew people involved.
It still tugs at my heart to read it...

The biggest thing about that article is about how the consensus to go developed. Great athletes, super smart snow people, and they blew it completely, because of peer/business pressure. They all ignored what they knew was true.

You can learn something from that article, no matter who you are. If you choose not to, that's on you.