Archive
Writing once featured on the original Gangrey blog.
Seems like so many exciting new books from friends are hitting the shelves this summer and fall. Here's my rundown. Correct my oversight. And what are you reading? Juniper: The Gir…
Rebecca Woolington: The obituary ran six days after the death of Madaline Christine Pitkin. It recalled the sunny early October evening she was born. It told stories from her child…
NiemanStoryboard launched an eight-week project showcasing the work of Michael Brick, which is collected in Everybody Leaves Behind a Name: True Stories. Here's a Q and A about the…
Interesting findings in this new study by Tim Rosenstiel for the Brookings Institute, who says the path toward sustainable journalism is being undermined by terrible data (thanks,…
John Ferro (thanks, Oliver): HIGHLAND – The small, frail man with an Italian passport would arrive unannounced, trundling a small suitcase behind him. Like a wispy Willy Loman, but…
Dan Barry: YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Numbered balls of chance rattle and rise two nights a week down at the cavernous community hall of Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church. It's…
Weston Phippen: Yevgeny Safronov and the four tourists landed in Los Angeles on a 70-degree dream of a day last May. They were Czechs, Slovaks, and Russians, here on vacation. It w…
Alex Tizon: They found what was left of him in the spring of 2014. Firefighters battling a huge blaze on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula first spotted a boot in the dirt. Then they notice…
Tommy T (thanks, Oliver): The business I love has put a lot of good people on the street and left behind a lot of empty buildings. I love it anyway, and so do the people who came b…
We've been talking about Michael Brick's craftsmanship here for years. Here's your chance to own a remarkable collection of his stories in book form, including several I guarantee…
Randy R. Potts: I waited in my car for 20 minutes. No last name, precise instructions: "Meet me at the truck stop at the corner of 259 and 144 and I'll take you on from there. You…
Here is the dirty secret of longform: most people, even those who urge its consumption, don't actually read it. Longform may win awards and it may bring prestige, but it remains at…
Naomi Martin and Dave Tarrant: Had they met under different circumstances, the two 20-year-olds could have easily been friends. Sara Mutschlechner loved Quentin Tarantino films and…
Daniel Engber in WIRED: THE BRAIN SURGERY lasted 11 and a half hours, beginning on the afternoon of June 21, 2014, and stretching into the Caribbean predawn of the next day. In the…
"That word though, if it is a word: Overwritten. In recent years it's become a sledgehammer in the hands of too many cowardly, unambitious, ladder-climbing, cow-in-a-swivel-chair e…
Jon Caraminico in the New York Times: FRISCO, Tex. — A little more than a month ago, Ben Higgins, the warmly handsome star of the coming season of "The Bachelor," got down on one k…