15 Great Articles by Tom Chiarella -
Classic articles by a feature writing virtuoso.
This story isn’t about quitting smoking. It’s about starting. And starting, for me, included thirty-four different brands of cigarette, eleven lighters, spiritual revelations and moments of clarity, gatherings at alley mouths, unions with strangers on the streets of various cities, huddlings on a ragged porch watching the hand-cupped flare of a match in a snowstorm, a perpetual sore throat, a nagging cough, several puking sessions, a six-day headache, an increased appetite, a bout of vertigo, and a wicked case of what I can only call moral confusion. It also meant joining a kind of club, getting bitch-slapped by hegemony, trying to fit in, and not wanting to fit in.
10 Articles by Devin Friedman -
All kinds of greatness from a writer with an eye for the sublime.
The Unbearable Awkwardness of Being -
I have, and it’s humiliating to type this, kind of always wanted to go back to high school. I (and this is even more humiliating) miss it.
Great Reads by Gene Weingarten -
8 journalistic gems.
There are dozens of professional children’s entertainers in the Washington area, but only one is as successful and intriguing, and as completely over-the-top preposterous, as the Great Zucchini. And if you want to know why that is, it’s going to take some time…
Great Articles by Michael Lewis -
20 amazing articles by one of the world’s top journalists.
Hanging around Barack Obama for six months, in the White House, aboard Air Force One, and on the basketball court, Michael Lewis learns about the reality of presidential life.
7 Great Essays by Walter Kirn -
7 stunning reads by a great critic and essayist.
