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Lenny Cooke: Almost Famous
What happens when the American Dream comes too early?...
FOX NFL Sunday: Behind The Curtain
David Pierce takes us behind the scenes of Fox NFL Sunday over at the Verge:...
Now Let Me Taka A Trip Down Memory Lane
The album version of Nas' mournful 1994 song "Memory Lane" is rightfully considered a classic. ...
Pick Pocket
Earlier this year Kottke linked a New Yorker profile on the pick pocket Apollo Robbins as well as this New York Times video:...
Joyce Carol Oates Reviews Mike Tyson's Book
From the New York Review of Books:...
Smash
The big question for those of us jaded with the modern game of ping-pong—the oof-plock, oof-plock of devious sponge, no rally lasting longer than the cramped spin serve, the dabbed return, and the silent kill—was whether the great Marty Reisman, just one grey hair short of 70 but still refusing the ...
The True School Tools Of The Trade
Pat Jordan's wife calls him a troglodyte, kicking a screaming into the 19th century. I first visited Pat at his home in Florida back in 2006 and looked through hundreds of manuscripts and drafts. I saw his tools of ignorance: an old Hermes 10 typewriter (he buys old machines on ebay for the parts), ...
Longform Salutes Peter Kaplan
The writer and editor Peter Kaplan died a few days ago....
Chasing A Rod
Head on over to New York Magazine and check out Steve Fishman's takeout piece on Alex Rodriguez:...
The Right Woman For The Job
Dig this nice column by Johnette Howard on Violet Palmer over at ESPN:...
Slap Me Five
A few years ago at ESPN the Magazine, Jon Mooallem wrote a piece on the history and mystery of the high five:...
The Bronx Is Burning
But that doesn't mean you should stop playing. ...
A League Of His Own
If you've never read Dave Meggysey's classic Out of Their League it's worth hunting down. ...