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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

The Ghost

Thanks to GQ for posting one of the best profiles I've ever read. Here's (circa '00, I think) Elizabeth Gilbert: I say, "Just speak your mind, Hank-3. Don't let me stop you."

Me and the grandson of Hank Williams are sitting in some honky-tonk dive in downtown Nashville, listening to some mediocre band churn through some weepy old set of country-music standards. The grandson of Hank Williams bears the Christian name Shelton Hank Williams, but he is better known around these parts as Hank-3, so that's why I call him that. Me and everyone else in this bar. Who have all recognized him on sight. Hank-3 is a little hard to miss, mind you. He's the only six-foot-two-inch, 144-pound, twangy-voiced,…

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