I think it’s fair to say that most of America was shocked when news of Tiger Woods’ sex scandal broke in late 2009. I’m also pretty sure that anyone who had read “The Man. Amen.” by Charles P. Pierce, in Esquire, from 12 years earlier, just nodded and said, “Yup, sounds about right.” Pierce’s piece [...]
By now you’ve probably heard the story: In October 2011, a suicidal man named Terry Thompson uncaged dozens of wild animals that he kept on his farm in Zanesville, Ohio, and then shot himself. The sheriff’s department spent a tense night tracking down the animals, killing all that they could find. Of all the inevitable [...]
November 6, 2012 – 10:06 am
Why hasn’t anybody Hunter S. Thompsonized this election? Or have they, and we missed it? Esquire’s Charlie Pierce approacheth – In the interest of keeping you abreast of news that hasn’t happened yet, I would like to introduce you to what the intellectuals in the employ of the Glenn Beck Empire will be saying on [...]
By Paige Williams
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Posted in #longreads
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Also tagged Byliner, Columbia Journalism Review, Esquire, GQ, Hunter S. Thompson, Jill Lepore, Joe McGinniss, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Roger Ailes, Rolling Stone, Saul Bellow, The Chicago Tribune, the New York Mirror, Vanity Fair
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November 30, 2009 – 1:16 pm
I spoke this morning with Marc Fisher, enterprise editor for local news at The Washington Post. Fisher is heading up the organization’s new Story Lab, which launched this week. See our next post for the Storyboard take on the Lab. Can you tell me a little about the genesis of the Story Lab? We restructured [...]
