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Daily Beast Peddles Batshit, Debunked Theory About A Serial-Killer Gang Thriving On The “Dark Web”<em></em><em></em>Today the Daily Beast published a story titled “Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the U.S.?” Boldly defying Betteridge’s Law, the report—written by crime reporter Nicole Weisensee Egan, who covered the Bill Cosby trial for the Beast—suggests that the answer to the question posed in ...

A Fan's NotesOver at The Daily Beast, my pal Allen Barra writes about Frederick Exley and his muse, the late Frank Gifford: ...

Beautiful Baltimore BumsMy father was born and raised in New York City. He idolized, among others, Sid Caesar, Walt Kelly, and Adlai Stevenson. As his son, I campaigned for Mondale/Ferraro when I was in the 8th grade, drew anti-Reagan political cartoons for my social studies class, and hung a huge Keith Haring "Free South ...

Splendor in the Short Grass

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

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":...

The Day the Fairytale Died

The business of writing obituaries may seem, at first glance, a morbid affair. Just think of the title of Gay Talese's 1966 Esquire profile of the New York Timesobituary writer Alden Whitman: "Mr. Bad News." But obituary writing is far from depressing and some of the best non-fiction writing of the ...

Song For My Father

Several years ago, I eagerly read Adam Hochschild's celebrated book about the early days of the Belgian Congo, King Leopold's Ghost. It is an evocative and engaging read. I was stopped on the subway twice, exactly one week apart, by women who saw me reading the book and who were compelled to tell me...

The Homecoming Of Willie Mays

Slide on over to the Daily Beast and check out this terrific 1972 Esquire story on Willie Mays by Murray Kempton:...