Best longform magazine articles

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

Back from when the LA Crimes had good column one stories; John Balzar, staff writer crews the 1997 Transpac on Ragtime.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-...706-story.html

[bizarrefaith]

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...dangerous-race

Long(ish) New Yorker piece about the scene around the Hahnenkamm

[abraham]

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...te-men-841576/

I thought this was a good one about suicide. In the Western US and among older men

[reckless toboggan]

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...aduate-240847/

I've never read it, and only learned who this guy was a few days ago. Never heard of him before.

Meh.

Figure I'll give it a read when I have more time.

[iceman]

You've never heard of The Machine?

there's a ton of way better comics but Bert has some decent bits.

[reckless toboggan]

You've never heard of The Machine?

there's a ton of way better comics but Bert has some decent bits.

After getting part way though the article, I realised I had read it when it first came out. At the time I thought the guy sounded like a hudge entitled douche. Now that I've read it again, I stand by my statement.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

The Day the Music Burned

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories& pgtype=Homepage

[reckless toboggan]

The Day the Music Burned

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/magazine/universal-fire-master-recordings.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories& pgtype=Homepage

"...Yoko Ono..."


So it wasn't all bad.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

There is that..

[reckless toboggan]

Also, this is amazing.

[donutlynx]

"Bundyville: The Remnant" is going up this week on LongReads this week. This is part 2 of the series and builds on the original (linked in the quote below). Written by Leah Sottile and supported by OPB. https://longreads.com/bundyville/

4-part series on "The War in the Desert". Bunkerville, Malheur occupation, grazing and water rights, Sagebrush Rebellion, etc...part 4 drops tomorrow 5/18/18.

https://longreads.com/2018/05/15/bun...in-the-desert/

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

The Survival of Iggy Pop



https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/the-survival-of-iggy-pop?utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Ma gazine_Daily_082619&utm_medium=email&bxid=5bea01af 3f92a404693c34a6&cndid=40501386&esrc=&mbid=&utm_te rm=TNY_Daily

[Evil E]

I dont know if this has been posted yet, but this is a great read. Afflecks production company started a bidding war for the movie rights and eventually secured them.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an...stole-millions

[dookeyXXX]

Three that have stuck with me over the years:

2004ish profile of Chateau Musar vinyard in GQ

GQ profile of Sean Thackrey and his pig farm winery in Bolinas, CA (also roughly 2004ish)

A SKI (or SKIING) article about skiing in Russia where the journalist got "attacked" by wild boars.

Also author George Saunders wrote quite a few great pieces for GQ in the mid oughts (his one on Dubai was particularly entertaining).
https://www.gq.com/story/george-saunders-on-dubai

https://longform.org/posts/the-new-mecca

Alas, I have thus far been unable to find most of these archived online...

[bodywhomper]

-the two part series on coal trains from the New Yorker, 2006 or 2007?
-New Yorker article about the Koch brothers from 2006 or 2007

[PNWbrit]

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/a...s-mille-miglia

"With Moss in the Mille Miglia" By Dennis Jenkinson

From June 1955

[Gcooker]

I dont know if this has been posted yet, but this is a great read. Afflecks production company started a bidding war for the movie rights and eventually secured them.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-an...stole-millions

This was amazing. Will make a great movie if done correctly.

[bennymac]

not sure if posted - a list of staff writer's favorite Outside articles

"The Best Stories We've Ever Told"
- According to the people who are most obsessed with the Outside magazine archive: Outside staffers

https://www.outsideonline.com/231182...OsiCPM9fU6RjjY

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

For the shut-ins

Eye in the Sky by Joe Frank (spoken word)

https://soundcloud.com/thejoefrank/e...yHrJWEPj3qKjOo

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

More spoken word. The fall of Saigon will be 45 years ago next month, this is originally from NPR in 1985. Very well done.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/...toryId=4624802

[Harry]

For the shut-ins

Eye in the Sky by Joe Frank (spoken word)

https://soundcloud.com/thejoefrank/e...yHrJWEPj3qKjOo

Is that the same Joe Frank as in Hamilton, Joe Frank, & Reynolds ?






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[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

When I was a kid I thought it was Hamilton, Joe, Frank and Reynolds.

This Joe Frank - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Frank

[donutlynx]

Hucked into the rat flu thread...and buried quickly.

https://www.perell.com/blog/news-in-...e-of-abundance

[alpinevibes]

thirty six thousand feet under the sea

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2...-under-the-sea

[evdog]

Interesting read. Theft of indigenous land via treaties, many of which were broken, is well known. But I had no idea about how this played into development of our university system.


Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system

https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.4/indi...b-universities