What I’ve Been Reading the Past 2 Months.
I’m planning on keeping this type of post, where I list out some of the best long-form journalism I’ve encountered over the previous 2 months, rolling. This is what I posted 2 months ago. Here’s more:
- The Tallest Woman in the Room.
- How Carrots Became the New Junk Food.
- The Runaway General. I’m conflicted about MacChrystal. I think he’s a badass, but I also think he handled Pat Tillman’s death really scummily.
- Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs: Seeing God in Tsunamis and Everyday Events. I am fascinated by cognitive biases.
- The Stoner Arms Dealers.
- Hermes: Handbag Heritage Under Attack.
- Secret Fears of the Super-rich. Man, I want to have complete financial freedom but I have no desire to be so rich that it undermines a happy life.
- Video Games: The Addiction. Excellent auto-biographical piece about an addict who uses cocaine and GTA IV to feed his neuroses.
- Microsoft’s Odd Couple.
- Woody Allen’s Movies: What I Learned Watching Every Single One.
- How Slavery Really Ended in America.
- Why You Should Care About Cricket. Hope to see this level of sports writing quality on Bill Simmons’ new site.
- Bad Nights in the NFL. Sad story about Darrent Williams’ death.
- When Alan Met Ayn: “Atlas Shrugged” and Our Tanked Economy. Alan Greenspan’s legacy is rightly starting to be tarnished.
- The Real Housewives of Wall Street.
- The Straight Dope. More hard-hitting realness from David Simon, a real American hero.
- Welcome to the Far-Eastern Conference. Marbury in China!
- How Two White Guys Wound Up in This Kendrick Perkins Family Photo. More awesome sports writing for people who don’t like sports.
- Unlocking the Mystery of Paris’ Most Secret Underground Society.
- Chinese Citizens on Tour in Europe.
- Cranking. Merlinn Mann getting to what really matters in life.
- Who is WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning?
- Mad German Auteur, Now in 3D. I would seriously consider making Werner Herzog one of the three people in the world I’d invite to my dinner party.
- The Joy of Stats. Mark Cuban and the vanguard pulling hoops into the 21st century of sabermetrics.
