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In Praise of Robert FrankAh, now this looks like it’s worth your time. Nicholas Dawidoff’s New York Times Magazine profile of the great Robert Frank:...

Life After The NBAPat Jordan wrote a small piece on former NBA ref Tim Donaghy five years ago for the Times. Now, he’s got a bigger feature on Donaghy for New York Magazine:...

A Sense Of Where You AreOh, man, great job by The New Yorker making John McPhee's classic profile of Dollar Bill Bradley at Princeton available to us for free....

After The Fall: Sympathy For The Devil

What do Dave Pell, Don Van Natta Jr, and Longform all have in common? They all singled out Brin-Jonathan Butler's stellar SB Nation Longform piece on Mike Tyson and Cus D'Amato:...

Splendor in the Short Grass

Here's Grover Lewis' famous Rolling Stone takeout on the filming of The Last Picture Show:...

Lee Marvin Shoots From The Hip

Over at the Beast I reprinted Robert Ward's hugely entertaining Rolling Stone profile of Lee Marvin:...

The Things He Found In People: Don Shula And The Secrets Of Talent

Originally published in the September 1983 edition of Esquire. Reprinted here with the author's permission....

Charlie Manson's Home On The Range

Over at the Daily Beast, I curated Gay Talese's 1970 Esquire story, "Charlie Manson's Home on the Range":...

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I Love It When You Call Me Big Papa

Found this over at Longform: The New Yorker's legendary 1950 Lillian Ross profile of Hemingway:...

by Alex Belth|Lillian Ross

|Thu Oct 30 2014

Deep In The Heart Of Texas

If you don't know from Billy Lee Brammer and his brilliant novel about Dallas politics, The Gay Place, welp, here's your chance. Dig in to these two Texas Monthly features:...

by Alex Belth|Billy Lee Brammer

|Tue Oct 28 2014

Why Paul Newman Just Got Better With Age

This week's curation at the Beast is Peter Richmond's fine 1995 GQ profile of Paul Newman:...

by Alex Belth|Peter Richmond

|Mon Oct 13 2014

Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Greg Maddux

A record producer friend once told me that Check Your Head, the Beastie Boys' 3rd album, was perfectly realized. That's stuck with me over the years, the idea of being able to achieve something that lives up to your ambition. In a 1978 Playboy Interview, Bob Dylan said: "The closest I ever got to t...

by Alex Belth|Jeremy Collins

|Thu Oct 02 2014

Palmer Vs. Palmer

Over at the Daily Beast, I reprinted Tom Boswell's fine 1983 portrait of Jim Palmer:...

by Alex Belth|Tom Boswell

|Mon Sep 29 2014

Friday Night Lights

Longform has been killin' it these days. Yesterday, they reprinted this classic from Buzz Bissinger:...

by Alex Belth|Buzz Bissinger

|Thu Sep 18 2014

The Wet Stuff

Over at Grantland, here's our pal Bryan Curtis on the men who built the great American waterpark:...

by Alex Belth|Bryan Curtis

|Wed Sep 10 2014

Yesterday's Hero

Let's take time out from the distressing state of modern football for this melancholy portrait of Bob Suffridge by the great Paul Hemphill:...

by Alex Belth|Paul Hemphill

|Tue Sep 09 2014

Hustler's Handbook

Here's Pat Jordan's 1971 Sports Illustrated pool room story, "A Clutch of Odd Birds." It's the kind of piece you don't see much these days and worth a read. ...

by Alex Belth|Pat Jordan

|Wed Aug 27 2014