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The Eight Truths I Learned From Humping Athletes
This piece originally appeared in the April 1995 issue of GQ. It is reprinted here with permission....
Heaven Is A Down-And-Out Hockey Town
This piece originally appeared in the April, 1995 issue of GQ. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission....
Looking For Peace With The Man On The Wire
Originally published as “Philippe Petit: Slow Dancing on the High Wire” in the October, 1986 issue of New York Woman, this feature appears here with permission from the author....
Muhammad Ali's Desperate Twilight
Excerpted from Ali: A Life, By Jonathan Eig....
A Day On The Set Of <i>Fat City</i>, John Huston's Cult Classic
Originally published as “Up In Fat City: On The Set With Keach And Huston” in the Rolling Stone in 1971, this feature appears here with permission from Lewis’s estate....
Harry Dean Stanton Was Too Big For His Niche
Originally published in the New York Times Magazine on November 16, 1986—and featured in Oney’s recent anthology, A Man’s World—this story appears here with the author’s permission....
The Lonesome Sporting Life
Originally published in the February 1981 issue of Inside Sports, this piece appears here with the author’s permission....
The Coen Brothers At Work
Originally titled “The Joel & Ethan Story,” this piece first appeared in the October 1989 issue of Premiere and appears here with the author’s permission....
The Dipper Comes To Harlem
Wilt Chamberlain would have been 81 years old today. To celebrate, check out this excerpt from Gary Pomerantz’s fine read, Wilt, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era. After the excerpt, you’ll find a Q&A with the author. ...
Richard Ben Cramer On The Damn Yankees
Originally published in the October 17, 1977, edition of The Baltimore Sun, this column appears here with permission from the author’s estate....
Jean-Pierre Laffont’s Love Song to New York
My mother is Belgian and throughout my childhood we entertained relatives when they came through New York. Not just my grandparents, my aunts and uncle, but cousins, friends, and friends of friends. My father was a native New Yorker and duly proud of it. He believed it was the best place in the worl...
Pete Dexter Finds A Safe Distance
This profile originally appeared in Philadelphia magazine, November 1991. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission. You can also read Jim Quinn’s 1979 profile of Pete Dexter here....
When Pete Dexter Was An Artist On Deadline
This story originally appeared in Philadelphia Magazine (October, 1979). It is reprinted here with the author’s permission....
Gordie Howe Got Things Done
This feature originally appeared in Inside Sports and appears here with permission....
The Suffering And Corruption That Produced James Jordan's Killers
This story originally appeared in the March 1994 issue of GQ....
How Frank Rich Became The Butcher Of Broadway
This story original appeared in the June, 1990 issue of GQ and appears here with the author’s permission....
<i>The Untouchables </i>Is Too Neat To Be A Truly Great Gangster Movie
Thirty years ago The Untouchables, Brian De Palma’s most commercial movie to that point, was released and helped launch Kevin Costner as an All-American star. This review by Pauline Kael originally appeared in The New Yorker and appears here with permission from the author’s estate....
The Long Death Of A Failed Ballplayer
This story originally appeared in the August, 1980 issue of Inside Sports and appears here with permission. ...
The Ways Kermit Washington Was Made And Unmade
This piece originally appeared in the December 1981 issue of Inside Sports. It also appeared in The Breaks Of The Game, and it reprinted here with permission....
Earl Manigault Flew High And Fell Hard
This feature first appeared in Sport magazine and appears here with the author’s permission....