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Thread: Best longform magazine articles
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03-13-2017, 07:29 PM #26Registered User
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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-wayfarerU.P.: up
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03-13-2017, 07:38 PM #27Funky But Chic
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03-13-2017, 07:40 PM #28
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/
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03-13-2017, 07:40 PM #29Funky But Chic
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03-13-2017, 07:43 PM #30
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03-13-2017, 08:32 PM #31
Thank you all for the reading list. Here's one that the Atlantic puts out every year
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertai...nalism/490622/
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03-13-2017, 09:04 PM #32
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03-13-2017, 09:07 PM #33
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03-13-2017, 09:38 PM #34
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
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03-13-2017, 10:15 PM #35
Subscribing to this thread.
Don't have time or energy to read books, but these interest me."fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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03-13-2017, 10:28 PM #36
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.
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03-14-2017, 09:25 PM #37
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03-14-2017, 09:59 PM #38
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
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03-14-2017, 11:27 PM #39Funky But Chic
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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
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03-15-2017, 02:21 PM #40
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.
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03-21-2017, 06:34 PM #41
Interesting article related to this thread: https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...ternet/519795/
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03-23-2017, 06:24 PM #42
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=0What we have here is an intelligence failure. You may be familiar with staring directly at that when shaving. .
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03-23-2017, 07:02 PM #43Funky But Chic
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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
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03-23-2017, 08:48 PM #47Funky But Chic
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Originally Posted by iceman;4977319
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03-23-2017, 08:55 PM #48
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...
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03-23-2017, 09:01 PM #49Funky But Chic
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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.
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03-23-2017, 10:27 PM #50
just read this today skiing related http://www.sbnation.com/longform/201...rofile#4097098
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