A CHANGE IN THE WORLD: SILICON VALLEY GETS POLITICAL
George Packer
The New Yorker, May 2013
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It suddenly ocurred to me that the hottest tech start-ups are solving the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand, because that’s who thinks them up.
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THE WORKING RICH: THE REAL SLAVES OF NEW YORK
By Jesse Kornbluth
New York, November 1986
She always wanted to know more.
I READ EVERYTHING JANET MALCOLM EVER PUBLISHED
By Alice Gregory
Slate, May 3 2013
Why do I trust her? Why do I even like her?
HARD CORE
Natasha Vargas-Cooper
The Atlantic, Jan 2011
More than two years behind the curve, BUT! This piece on sex and porn by Natasha Vargas-Cooper is so, so good.
She also recently did the Longform podcast and says many astute things about court reporting, celebrity profiles, Los Angeles, and dogs.
