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Cease to Exist, Part III: Fairy Tale of Hollywood

Cease to Exist, Part III: Fairy Tale of Hollywood

It's what Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time in Hollywood Doesn't Depict That's Truly Evil.

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Read of the Year: Kaleb Horton on America's Strangest Kidnapping

Read of the Year: Kaleb Horton on America's Strangest Kidnapping

Writer Kaleb Horton penned the best piece of journalism in years. It's out this week, and describes the strangest crime to ever occur in the American West.

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Cease to Exist, Part II: Back to the Top of the Slide

Cease to Exist, Part II: Back to the Top of the Slide

30 years after the Manson Family murders, a journalist takes a fresh look at the story. 20 years of work later, his book challenges everything we know about the story.

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Cease to Exist

Cease to Exist

Fifty Years Ago, The Manson Family Was Sent To Death Row. Part I In A Series About The Mysteries Which Remain.

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Only The Moon As Witness

Only The Moon As Witness

Explaining Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, where Israeli apartheid exploded this month into an assault on Gaza, through my field work a decade ago amongst the residents there.

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A Walk Along the Green Line

A Walk Along the Green Line

A fast fact sheet introducing you to Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, flashpoint for the Palestinian-Israeli crisis this month.

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Texas By The Tail

Texas By The Tail

They Say Everything in Texas is Bigger. Including America's Warped Pathology. How Texas's legacy of crime fiction can educate us about America today.

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Dream Factory

Dream Factory

The Oscars Sell Phony Dreams. Good Thing Hollywood's Nightmares Are So Honest.

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Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall

Cherry Blossoms and Coronavirus

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Social Distancing

Social Distancing

The Crisis Before the Storm

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21st Century Spiv

21st Century Spiv

Why All Billionaires Are Criminals

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No Good

No Good

Jimmy McGill versus Saul Goodman, Better Angels and Worse Devils

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Read of the Week

Read of the Week

Kaleb Horton on Charles Portis

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THE American Writer, Part I

THE American Writer, Part I

RIP Charles Portis.

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A Garbageman's Notes, Part IV

A Garbageman's Notes, Part IV

Oscar Fever

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A Garbageman's Notes, Part III

A Garbageman's Notes, Part III

Riding the River

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A Garbageman's Notes, Part II

A Garbageman's Notes, Part II

Embracing The Hack Mindset

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A Garbageman's Notes, Part I

A Garbageman's Notes, Part I

Thinking About Thinking About Writing

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On Being Dead

On Being Dead

And On Being Revived

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Coming Soon: SUMMER OF MANSON

Coming Soon: SUMMER OF MANSON

A New Series on Substack

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Candle in the Wind

Candle in the Wind

Good Bye Huckabee/Though I Never Liked You At All...

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The Utterly Unpersuasive

The Utterly Unpersuasive

In Which I Meet Piers Morgan, Journalist.

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Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

My Friend the Wolf

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