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"Let’s call it the “male glance,” the narrative corollary to the male gaze. We all have it, and it’s ruining our ability to see good art."
'The Male Glance' / Written by Lili Loofbourow / VQR Online / Spring 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"From 2011 to 2013, the most elite forces in the U.S. military, supported by the CIA and other elements of the intelligence community, set out to destroy the Taliban and al Qaeda forces that remained hidden among the soaring peaks and plunging valleys of the Hindu Kush, along Afghanistan’s northeastern border with Pakistan. Dubbed Operation Haymaker, the campaign has been described as a potential model for the future of American warfare: special operations units, partnered with embedded intelligence elements running a network of informants, pinpointing members of violent organizations, then drawing up plans to eliminate those targets from the battlefield, either by capturing or killing them."
'Manhunting in the Hindu Kush' / Written by Ryan Devereaux with additional reporting by Jeremy Scahill & Margot Williams / The Intercept / Oct. 15, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"[ProPublica's] Documenting Hate database shows that the terrorizing of people where they live is alive and well decades after the civil rights movement."
“Get Out”: Black Families Harassed in Their Own Homes / Written by Rahima Nasa and Rachel Glickhouse / ProPublica / Jan. 7, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
"After their mother was deported to Mexico, the Marin siblings faced an impossible choice: Stay or go."
'Losing Gloria' / Written by Lizzie Presser / The California Sunday Magazine / June 1, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Cody Spafford found both solace and redemption in the kitchen of Seattle’s most celebrated restaurant. What turned a promising chef into a bank robber?"
'The Brief, Extraordinary Life of Cody Spafford' / Written by Allecia Vermillion / Seattle Met / March 10, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"There's no telling how many guns we have in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. On purpose. Thing is, the geniuses who work there are quietly inventing ways to do the impossible."
'Inside the Federal Bureau of Way Too Many Guns' / Written by Jeanne Marie Laskas / GQ / Aug. 30, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"They’re spending nights in their car, on the run from the same shadowy cabal—“the Hollywood Star Whackers”—who may have killed Heath Ledger, possibly sabotaged Jeremy Piven, and could now be targeting Lindsay Lohan. No, this is not the plot of Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winner Randy Quaid’s latest movie. It is what he and his wife, Evi, swear is really happening to them. With the Quaids in Canada, the author probes their nightmare reality, which has alienated friends and family, and turned the couple into outlaws."
Additional reporting by Ted Travelstead, Alison Forbes, and Laura Griffin.
'The Quaid Conspiracy' / Written by Nancy Jo Sales / Vanity Fair / Dec. 1, 2010 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Pocahontas may seem like a strange vehicle for discussing our gay villains. But Disney gets inventive when they need to circumvent white people’s historical responsibility for genocidal atrocities — and queerness is a useful scapegoat."
'Deconstructing Disney: Queer Coding & Masculinity in Pocahontas' / Written by Jeanna Kadlec / Longreads / April 2021 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"There’s a growing business crafting law enforcement narratives about police shootings and officer misconduct."
'Meet the California PR Firm Helping Cops Fight Off Bad Press' / Written by Scott Morris / The Appeal & The Vallejo Sun / Nov. 30, 2021 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The minor leagues have been testing the Automated Ball-Strike System. But isn’t yelling and screaming about bad calls half the fun of baseball?"
'Invasion of the Robot Umpires' / Written by Zach Helfand / The New Yorker / Aug. 23, 2021 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Facing an influx of refugees, the residents of Algiers Point could have pulled together food, water and medical supplies for the flood victims. Instead, a group of white residents, convinced that crime would arrive with the human exodus, sought to seal off the area, blocking the roads in and out of the neighborhood by dragging lumber and downed trees into the streets. They stockpiled handguns, assault rifles, shotguns and at least one Uzi and began patrolling the streets in pickup trucks and SUVs. The newly formed militia, a loose band of about 15 to 30 residents, most of them men, all of them white, was looking for thieves, outlaws or, as one member put it, anyone who simply 'didn't belong.'"
'Post-Katrina, White Vigilantes Shot African-Americans With Impunity' / Written by A.C. Thompson / ProPublica & The Nation / Dec. 19, 2008 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The high country of southern Australia is “remote and beautiful and unpredictable,” a place where visitors can be swallowed up without a sound."
'As Hikers Vanish, These Mountains Hold Tight to Their Mysteries' / Written by Yan Zhuang / The New York Times / Aug. 4, 2021 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Justin Zhu’s $2 billion startup was doing great, but an unorthodox style and tension with investors cost him his job."
'LSD, Cargo Shorts, and the Fall of a High-Flying Tech CEO' / Written by Sarah McBride / Bloomberg / May 3, 2021 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Like many in Hollywood, Allison Mack sought spiritual guidance outside the mainstream. But 12 years after checking out a women's empowerment seminar, she stands accused of recruiting "slaves" and branding women with a hot cauterizing pen. Through interviews with close friends and ex-members of the Nxivm cult, THR reveals how a charismatic fan favorite allegedly morphed into the leader's No. 2 and explores the persistent allure and pernicious effect of cults on entertainment."
'Her Darkest Role: Actress Allison Mack’s Descent From ‘Smallville’ to Sex Cult' / Written by Scott Johnson & Rebecca Sun / The Hollywood Reporter / May 16, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Extreme heat causes a cascade of climate chaos, and the way we deal with it — air conditioning — is only cooking our planet faster. Is there a better way to cool ourselves down?"
'Our Air-Conditioned Nightmare' / Written by Jeff Goodell / Rolling Stone / June 22, 2021 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Camden, New Jersey, is America's most dangerous city, a once proud place now ravaged by addiction and poverty and guns and decay. It's also a really unlikely place to start a Little League. Kathy Dobie spends a season of heroism and survival with the coaches, players, moms, dreamers, retired gangbangers, and wised-up ex-cons who believe in baseball's power to transform the hood."
'The Undefeated Champions of Defeat City' / Written by Kathy Dobie / GQ / May 12, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The company produces successful movies, TV shows, e-readers and speakers, but gaming has proven difficult to crack."
'Amazon Can Make Just About Anything—Except a Good Video Game' / Written by Jason Schreier & Priya Anand / Bloomberg / Jan. 29, 2021 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"We're still trying to eliminate sweatshops and child labor by buying right. But that's not how the world works in 2015."
'The Myth of the Ethical Shopper' / Written by Michael Hobbes / HuffPost Highline / July 15, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'Michael Hobbes is a human rights consultant in Berlin. He’s written for The New Republic, Slate and The Huffington Post.'
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"In St. Louis, Missouri, an effort to manage enormous caseloads left hundreds of the city's poorest without a lawyer."
'Who Gets a Public Defender?' / Written by Steven Hsieh / Pacific Standard / Nov. 18, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"When a man was killed in Malibu Creek State Park last summer while camping with his two young daughters, it sent the placid Southern California community into hysterics—spawning amateur sleuths, conspiracy theories, and public paranoia. Was it related to a rash of unsolved incidents in the area? But while the tragedy’s aftermath publicly played out like a new season of Serial, there was also a family left picking up the pieces after a seemingly random act of violence. This is a story about what happens when lightning strikes in the most chilling manner imaginable."
'The Unsolved Mystery of the Malibu Creek Murder' / Written by Zach Baron / GQ / June 20, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"How digital detectives unraveled the mystery of Olympic Destroyer—and why the next big attack will be even harder to crack."
'The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History' / Written by Andy Greenberg / WIRED / Oct. 17, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'From the book SANDWORM, by Andy Greenberg, published on November 5, 2019, by Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2019 by Andy Greenberg. Greenberg is a senior writer for WIRED.'
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"Black patients were losing limbs at triple the rate of others. The doctor put up billboards in the Mississippi Delta. Amputation Prevention Institute, they read. He could save their limbs, if it wasn’t too late."
'The Black American Amputation Epidemic' / Written by Lizzie Presser / ProPublica / May 19, 2020 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"On January 13th, 2018, the residents of Hawaii picked up their phones to find a warning: a missile would be hitting the islands imminently. Sean Flynn found out what people do when they think they only have moments left to live."
'The Real Story of the Hawaiian Missile Crisis' / Written by Sean Flynn / GQ / April 2, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Or, how we learned to stop worrying and embrace the abstraction."
'A Brief History of Money' / Written by James Surowiecki / IEEE Spectrum / May 30, 2012 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"An exploration of ketchup’s Chinese origins."
'The Cosmopolitan Condiment' / Written by Dan Jurafsky / Slate / May 30, 2012 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"What can we learn from chimps and sheep and maybe even insects that practice medicine on themselves?"
'The Self-Medicating Animal' / Written by Moises Velasquez-Manoff / The New York Times / May 18, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression — and they’re about to do it again."
'The Great American Bubble Machine' / Written by Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone / April 5, 2010 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"An investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children."
'The Hell of American Daycare' / Written by Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic / April 14, 2013 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Despite decades of accepted science, California and Arizona are still miscounting their water supplies."
'Less Than Zero' / Written by Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica / July 17, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Ruth Thalía Sayas Sánchez, a teenager from the outskirts of Lima, Peru, became an overnight sensation on a hit television game show. Then, she disappeared."
'The Contestant' / Written by Daniel Alarcón / The California Sunday Magazine / Oct. 5, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"What happens when climate changes quickly in a previously frozen place, when the earth heats up and the mountains melt? In the high Swiss Alps, here's what happens: The ice gives up the bodies—and the secrets—of the past."
'The Ghosts of the Glacier' / Written by Sean Flynn / GQ / Oct. 4, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The untold story of that crime is a case study in obsession and jealousy, where a sport predicated on violent domination bled from the ring onto the street and culminated in murder."
'A South Florida Boxing Rivalry Leads to Cold-Blooded Murder' / Written by Tim Elfrink / Miami New Times / Feb. 23, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"A bold entrepreneur with a radical startup. An African-American. In tech, those two phrases usually don’t go together. Enter Tristan Walker."
'Tristan Walker: The Visible Man' / Written by J.J. McCorvey / Fast Company / Nov. 11, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"To understand why analysts care so deeply about Statcast, it’s first important to understand just how it works and what it can do. The system has two parts: cameras, used to track primarily the players, and radar, used to track the ball."
'Major League Baseball's Statcast Can Break Sabermetrics' / by Emma Baccellieri / Deadspin / Dec. 18, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"In Tuscaloosa today, nearly one in three black students attends a school that looks as if Brown v. Board of Education never happened."
'Segregation Now' / by Nikole Hannah-Jones / ProPublica / April 16, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"How the feds took down a drug cartel's horse-racing empire."
'The Rookie and the Zetas' / by Joe Tone / Dallas Observer / April 1, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Hijab-wearing Muslim women on the road have faced racial slurs or were told to 'go back to their country.' Others were called 'rag heads' or 'terrorists.'"
'In the Name of Hate, Muslim Women Face Road Rage Behind the Wheel' / by Rowaida Abdelaziz / HuffPost / Oct. 13, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The former Russian spy was poisoned with a cup of tea in a London hotel. Working with Scotland Yard detectives, as he lay dying, he traced the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service."
'The Man Who Solved His Own Murder' / by Luke Harding / The Guardian / Jan. 19, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The inside story of Dov Charney’s overthrow and the chaotic battle for control of American Apparel."
'Dov Charney's Sleazy Struggle for Control of American Apparel' / by Susan Berfield / Bloomberg / July 10, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"He was methodical, he rode the highways, and he preyed on teenage girls. Girls who'd run away. Girls no one would miss. In the summer of 1985, the author was such a girl. One night on I-95, she hitched a ride from a stranger and endured the most terrifying moments of her life. Now, years later, she returns to the scenes of her fugitive youth looking for clues to that terror—and the girls who lost their lives to it."
'The Truck Stop Killer' / by Vanessa Veselka / GQ / Oct. 24, 2012 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'Vanessa Veselka is the author of Zazen (Red Lemonade, which won the 2012 PEN/ Bingham Prize for fiction'
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"An attorney pieces together a life cut short."
'The First Time Texas Killed One of My Clients' / by Burke M. Butler / Texas Observer & The Marshall Project / March 7, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Neurologist Laura Boylan suffered from tremors and loss of balance that she attributed to a cyst in her brain. Why didn’t her doctors believe her?"
'In Men, It's Parkinson's. In Women, It's Hysteria' / by David Armstrong / ProPublica / Aug. 23, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance."
'The Porch Pirate of Potrero Hill Can't Believe It Came To This' / by Lauren Smiley / The Atlantic / Nov. 1, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'LAUREN SMILEY is a writer based in California. Her work has appeared in Wired, San Francisco magazine, and The California Sunday Magazine.'
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"Your DNA is not a blueprint. Day by day, week by week, your genes are in a conversation with your surroundings. Your neighbors, your family, your feelings of loneliness: They don't just get under your skin, they get into the control rooms of your cells. Inside the new social science of genetics."
'The Social Life of Genes' / by David Dobbs / Pacific Standard / Sept. 3, 2013 [updated 2017] / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'David Dobbs is the author of My Mother's Lover, an Atavist story that became a Top 20 Kindle and a No. 1 best-selling Kindle Single. His Pacific Standard cover story, "The Social Life of Genes," won the 2014 AAAS Kavli prize for magazine writing.'
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"One Missouri town’s levee saga captures what's wrong with America's approach to controlling rivers."
'Flood Thy Neighbor: Who Stays Dry and Who Decides?' / by Lisa Song, Patrick Michels & Al Shaw / ProPublica & Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting / Aug. 6, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The mystery started with a stolen safe combination and an inside job. It led to a car theft, the creation of a fake Stanford Axe and a midnight rendezvous with a newspaper photographer. Student pilots took to the skies. Mice were let loose in a Stanford women's dorm. The Oakland Tribune credited a commando team known as 'The Fearsome Five' for carrying out the mission."
'The never-before-told story of the 1960 Cal-Stanford axe heist' / by Kyle Bonagura / ESPN / Nov. 20, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"With almost $1 billion in funding and ambitions to replace petroleum-based cars with a network of cheap electrics, Shai Agassi’s Better Place was remarkable even by the standards of world-changing startups. So was its epic failure. A 21st-century cautionary tale."
'A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World' / by Max Chafkin / Fast Company / April 7, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'Max Chafkin is a contributing writer with Fast Company, and the author of Design Crazy: Good Looks, Hot Tempers, and True Genius at Apple. His work has appeared in The Best American Magazine Writing 2014 and The Best Business Writing 2012'
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"Soccer, fire and a game at the world's crossroads."
'The Istanbul Derby' / by Spencer Hall / SB Nation / April 28, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"When the patriarch of the hugely popular fast-food chain killed his mother and sister, then himself, he left behind a family wrestling with fate—and each other."
'The Zankou Chicken Murders' / by Mark Arax / Los Angeles Magazine / April 1, 2008 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"To understand this sprawling desert city, you have to understand its canals, whose routes Indigenous people dug as far back as A.D. 200."
'The Ancient Waterways of Phoenix, Arizona' / by Bruce Berger / A Desert Harvest / Farrar, Straus and Giroux / March 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'Bruce Berger grew up in suburban Chicago. A poet and nonfiction writer, he is best known for a series of books exploring the intersections of nature and culture in desert settings. The first of these, The Telling Distance, won the 1990 Western States Book Award and the 1991 Colorado Book Award. His articles and essays have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Sierra, Orion Magazine, and Gramophone; his poems have appeared in Poetry, Barron’s, and various literary reviews in the United States, Scotland, and India, and have been collected in Facing the Music.
Excerpted to Longreads from A Desert Harvest: New and Selected Essays by Bruce Berger. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Copyright © 1990, 1994, 2004, 2019 by Bruce Berger. All rights reserved.'
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"I went to Wisconsin’s Bad River Reservation to find out why 14-year-old Jason Pero was shot dead by a sheriff’s deputy. But tribal members didn’t only want to talk about the shooting: 'You’ve heard about the women, right?'"
'From Gunshots To Alleged Rapes, A Toxic Legacy Of Police Relations On A Wisconsin Reservation' / by John Stanton / Buzzfeed News / Jan. 9, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'John Stanton is a national reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New Orleans. In 2014, Stanton was a recipient of the National Press Foundation’s 2014 Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting of Congress.'
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"Five First Responders to the Pulse Massacre. One Diagnosis: PTSD."
'Trauma After Tragedy' / by Abe Aboraya / ProPublica & WMFE / June 11, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'Abe Aboraya covers health care for WMFE, an NPR affiliate in Orlando. This year, he is focusing on the toll post-traumatic stress disorder takes on first responders. Email him at wmfe@propublica.org and follow him on Twitter @wmfehealthnerd.'
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"David Milch, the storied mind also behind 'Deadwood,' changed television. Now, according to a lawsuit, the racetrack regular has lost his homes, owes the IRS $17 million and is on a $40-a-week allowance. Still, his supporters stay close: 'He's brilliant.'"
'Additional reporting by Kim Masters.'
'How the $100 Million 'NYPD Blue' Creator Gambled Away His Fortune' / by Stephen Galloway with Scott Johnson / The Hollywood Reporter / Feb. 17, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"At 25, Stephen Glass was the most sought-after young reporter in the nation’s capital, producing knockout articles for magazines ranging from The New Republic to Rolling Stone. Trouble was, he made things up—sources, quotes, whole stories—in a breathtaking web of deception that emerged as the most sustained fraud in modern journalism."
'Shattered Glass' / by Buzz Bissinger / Vanity Fair / Sept. 1998 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
Buzz Bissinger is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, and the author of Friday Night Lights https://www.amazon.com/Friday-Night-Lights-25th-Anniversary/dp/0306824213
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"For centuries, humanity's dead bodies have been either buried or cremated. Now, a growing movement is advocating for a cleaner, more sensitive alternative."
'In the future, your body won't be buried... you'll dissolve' / by Hayley Campbell / Wired UK / Aug. 15, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'Hayley Campbell is a freelance journalist and the author of The Art of Neil Gaiman'
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"Most people I met in Anna, Illinois, wish the racist lore behind the city’s name would go away. So why hasn’t it?"
'The Legend of A-N-N-A: Revisiting an American Town Where Black People Weren’t Welcome After Dark' / by Logan Jaffe / ProPublica Illinois & The Atlantic / Nov. 7, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
'Logan Jaffe is the engagement reporter for ProPublica Illinois. She previously was an embedded mediamaker with The New York Times’ Race/Related newsletter in collaboration with the documentary showcase POV, in which she reported and produced an audience-driven project confronting the pervasiveness of racism through everyday objects. In Chicago, she was a recipient of Chicago Filmmakers’ Digital Media Production Fund for “Battle Flag,” an interactive documentary which questions the meaning of the Confederate battle flag in America. Contact Logan by email and on Twitter.'
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"The Baltic Sea on its own isn’t generally big enough to develop the turbulence far from shore that, over hundreds of miles, organizes itself into serried sets of waves. But every day, at two-hour intervals, an enormous ferry cruised over from Denmark, and the breaks they were checking out were created in the ship’s wake. Mowen later went back to a couple of nearby spots and thought the waves looked rideable. He decided to try."
'An American Surfer Goes Rogue to Claim the Baltic Sea's 'Last Wave'' / by Jessica Camille Aguirre / Deadspin / Dec. 5, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"He looked like Sammy Hagar, preached like Billy Graham, and brought a 350-pound tiger to church. Then he shot heroin with his son and was busted at the border for running drugs for a Mexican cartel."
'The Church of Living Dangerously: How One of America’s Biggest Pastors Became a Drug Runner for a Mexican Cartel' / by David Kushner / Vanity Fair / April 19, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
David Kushner’s latest book, The Players Ball: A Genius, A Con Man, and the Secret History of the Internet’s Rise, was released this month. https://www.amazon.com/Players-Ball-Geni…1572901255&sr=8-1
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"Briana Scurry enters National Soccer Hall of Fame after overcoming brain surgery, suicidal thoughts and financial woes. The two-time Olympic gold medalist and 1999 World Cup winner is the first black woman and first female goalie to be inducted."
'Briana Scurry Enters Hall of Fame' / by Rhiannon Walker / The Undefeated / Feb. 9, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Nancy and Frank Howard were happily married for three decades. Then he fell in love with another woman, embezzled $30 million, and hired a hit man to kill her."
'How Not to Get Away With Murder' / by Michael J. Mooney / D Magazine / Dec. 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"What will it take to get women’s baseball the recognition it deserves?"
'Home Field Disadvantage' / by Kelsey McKinney / Longreads / Nov. 29, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"As Hurricane Sandy menaces the eastern seaboard, addicts will have their own concerns. An ex-heroin user recalls the 13 dark days she stayed on in New Orleans after Katrina hit."
'Junkies in the Hurricane' / by Eliza Player / the fix / Nov. 28, 2014 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
Eliza Player is the author of a Kindle single about her experiences: Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within, available here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Heroin%2C+Hurricane+Katrina%2C+and+the+Howling+Within&ref=nb_sb_noss
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"The city that fell in love with the mob."
'Crimetown USA' / by David Grann / The New Republic / July 9, 2000 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The life of a trans woman, but only online."
'Searching for Eve' / by Meredith Talusan / Matter / Sept. 24, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"No, Native Americans aren't genetically more susceptible to alcoholism. Time to retire the 'firewater' fairytale."
by Maia Szalavitz / The Verge / Oct. 2, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"19 year old Faker came out of nowhere to become the first true global star of gaming. But can the League of Legends prodigy carry a nation on his shoulders?"
'The Unkillable Demon King' / by Mina Kimes / ESPN The Magazine / June 10, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"An extremely rare condition may transform our understanding of memory."
'Total recall: the people who never forget' / by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie / The Guardian / Feb. 8, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"He never knew where the bullets landed or what became of the man. And after seventeen years, he decided he needed to find out exactly what he’d done."
'The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder' / by Jennifer Gonnerman / New York Magazine / Nov. 16, 2012 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"A mother of four, Arlene Rodriguez lived a double life as the first female shot caller for the Florencia 13 gang and a real estate agent."
'The Queen of Florencia' / by Sam Quinones / Los Angeles Magazine / Sept. 25, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The U.S. military burns millions of pounds of munitions in a tiny, African-American corner of Louisiana. The town’s residents say they’re forgotten in the plume."
'Kaboom Town' / by Abrahm Lustgarten / ProPublica / July 21, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"On a cold evening last December, a cousin who may have been the first outsider in decades to enter the house found the younger sister’s badly withered corpse under a kitchen table."
'Two Sisters, One House, and a Mystery' / by Patricia Wen / Boston Globe / March 4, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Inside the story of Owen Hanson, former USC athlete suspected of heading an international gambling and drug syndicate."
'Gridiron Gangster: How a Vigilante Gambler Took Down an Alleged Crime Boss' / by David Amsden / Rolling Stone / November 28, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Juries convicted Ricky Joyner twice. Once in 1994 and again in 1998, after he won his first appeal. Prosecutors called the case cut and dried. But we looked through transcripts, reports, video and more. Should Joyner’s conviction stand?"
'The Questionable Conviction, and Re-Conviction, of Ricky Joyner' / by Christian Sheckler and Ken Armstrong / South Bend Tribune & ProPublica / July 19, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"A recording salvaged from three miles deep tells the story of the doomed 'El Faro,' a cargo ship engulfed by a hurricane."
'The Clock is Ticking: Inside the Worst U.S. Maritime Disaster in Decades' / by William Langewiesche / Vanity Fair / April 4, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"When a programmer shut down a hospital website to defend a sick girl, he raised a crucial question: What are the bounds of protest in the digital age?"
'The Hacker Who Cared Too Much' / by David Kushner / Rolling Stone / June 29, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"After trapeze artist-turned-poodle trainer Gerard Soules was stabbed to death in a Las Vegas trailer park in 1992, prosecutors charged his onetime fling, Fred Steese, with murder. But there was clear evidence that Steese wasn’t even in Nevada at the time. What his Kafka-esque journey through the justice system says about the state of American justice."
'Kafka in Vegas: A Murdered Circus Star, a Dubious Confession, and America's Prosecutorial Misconduct Epidemic' / by Megan Rose / ProPublica & Vanity Fair / May 26, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"In a small town in rural North Carolina, a serial killer has evaded justice for six years by sticking to a ruthlessly simple plan: He preys on black women who have slipped away from their lives, who live and hustle on the streets—the ones who are already almost dead."
'The Lost Girls of Rocky Mount' / by Robert Draper / GQ / June 9, 2010 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Chinese-American Fei-Fei Li, an expert in deep learning who helped rewrite Google’s ethics rules, wants more women and minorities in artificial intelligence. She says how AI is engineered, and by whom, will determine whether it helps all humanity or reinforces the wealth divide and human prejudices."
'Bias in, bias out: the Stanford scientist out to make AI less white and male' / by Jesse Hempel / Post Magazine (SCMP) / January 25, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Her skin is perpetually on fire. He can't even feel a bone break. Together they might hold the key to ending America's opioid epidemic."
'How a Single Gene Could Become a Volume Knob for Pain' / by Erika Hayasaki / Wired / April 18, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"A mysterious assault. An unsolved murder. And a ship that hasn't given up all its secrets."
'The Hijacking of Brillante Virtuoso' / by Kit Chellel and Matthew Campbell / Bloomberg / July 27, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"In Florida prisons, mentally ill inmates have been tortured, driven to suicide, and killed by guards."
'Madness' / by Eyal Press / The New Yorker / April 25, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"What a week at a Buddhist superpower camp taught me about death and why we fear it."
'Death Grip: How Holding Hands With a Corpse Got Me a Little Closer to Enlightenment' / by Robert Moor / GQ / October 31, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"When a U.S. citizen heard he was on his own country’s drone target list, he wasn’t sure he believed it. After five near-misses, he does – and is suing the United States to contest his own execution."
'How to Survive America's Kill List' / by Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone / July 19, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"After an 11-year-old Navajo girl was kidnapped, her family and friends sprang into action to find her. Why did it take so long for law enforcement to join them?"
'The Delay' / by Rachel Monroe / Esquire / April 18, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Fueled by desperation and long-shot hopes, a twentysomething huckster agent leads 10 end-of-the-line players on a European exposure tour. It could be their final chance at basketball glory, but will anyone buy what he’s selling?"
'The End of the Hoop Dream: A Journey to the Extreme Fringe of International Basketball' / by Jordan Ritter Conn / Grantland / Aug. 6, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"When Michael Deng, a college freshman, joined an Asian-American fraternity, he was looking for a sense of belonging and identity. Two months later he was dead."
'What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity' / by Jay Caspian Kang / The New York Times Magazine / Aug. 9, 2017 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"When a massive Caribbean volcano erupts, the island’s residents flee, leaving their beloved animals behind. As pets and livestock are engulfed in ash and penned in by lava, waiting to perish, three brave souls risk death and evade the law to save every last one. A modern-day Noah’s Ark."
'Every Living Creature' / by Sarah Schweitzer / Truly*Adventurous / March 26, 2019 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"For four decades, other gamblers have tried to be Billy Walters while investigators have tried to bring him down. And for four decades, the world's most successful sports bettor has outrun them all."
'A Life On The Line' / by Mike Fish / ESPN / Feb. 6, 2015 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"The inside story of death and survival as the Carr Fire's tornado of flames stormed Redding — and changed firefighting in a warming California"
'150 Minutes of Hell' / by Lizzie Johnson / San Francisco Chronicle / Dec. 5, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"After a flawed sexual assault investigation, a Naval Academy instructor fights to prove he has done nothing wrong. But did he?"
'A Marine's Convictions' / by John Woodrow Cox / Washington Post / March 10, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"A Russian helicopter pilot had nearly completed a record-breaking trip around the globe when he crashed into the icy waters of the Arctic Circle. He never should have survived."
'Marooned Among the Polar Bears' / by Justin Nobel / Popular Mechanics / February 17, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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“What are you? An explainer trying to understand? A terminator sent to terminate me?”
'The Final, Terrible Voyage of the Nautilus' / by May Jeong / Wired / February 15, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"In Galicia, four sisters are taking on the male-dominated culture of percebeiras."
'The Barnacle Queens of the Spanish Seaside' by Matt Goulding / Roads & Kingdoms / November 11, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"Jennifer Frey drank herself to death."
'The Writer Who Was Too Strong to Live' by Dave McKenna / Deadspin / October 27, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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"After a woman living in a hotel in Florida was raped, viciously beaten, and left for dead near the Everglades in 2005, the police investigation quickly went cold. But when the victim sued the Airport Regency, the hotel’s private detective, Ken Brennan, became obsessed with the case: how had the 21-year-old blonde disappeared from her room, unseen by security cameras? The author follows Brennan’s trail as the P.I. worked a chilling hunch that would lead him to other states, other crimes, and a man nobody else suspected."
'The Case of the Vanishing Blonde' by Mark Bowden / Vanity Fair / December 2010 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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“Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient wounds.”
'A Killing at Donkey Creek' by Rahima Nasa / ProPublica / April 26, 2018 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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“Baseball scouts used to scrutinize Maury Lerner’s every move. Then F.B.I. agents were the ones watching.”
'The Big League Prospect Who Became a Mob Hit Man' by Dan Barry / The New York Times / Oct. 24, 2016 / Narrated by Drew Bontadelli
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