These are the pieces of reporting, essays, culture writing, etc. that stayed with me over the course of 2017.
Tag: journalism
Chasing criminals west of the Schuylkill
Fitted with bracing illustrations, a harrowing longform story about gun violence and a West Philly drug gang went live this week at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
More stories than we could use
In the summer of 2013, a 26 year-old fortuneteller in New York City’s Times Square secured $2,500 for a consultation with a new client over his bout of lovesickness.
Clickable: Longform writing in 2015
Longform writing 2015: Like many people, I spent a lot of time reading long articles last year.
"It was a childhood of pink grazed knees, girl guides in the church hall, wheezing bouncy castles. Salty crisps and sausage rolls on sagging paper plates" https://t.co/XuCUQSLzrN
Documented slumlord and fake Harvard grad Jared “backchannel” Kushner, who hates books and made a historically terrible NYC real estate deal, had suspicious monetary transactions involving Russia flagged at Deutsche Bank in 2016. Trump foundation too https://t.co/qt6fRAUQ70
The Chicago Imagists' "visual enthusiasm made things that might otherwise be dark or threatening seem silly, a subject for comedy, and quite possibly conquerable" https://t.co/cRVC9TiPc2