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“Why’s this so good?” No. 88: Katherine Boo and the marriage cure

Katharine Boo begins her 2003 New Yorker piece “The Marriage Cure” with one of my all-time favorite opening lines: One July morning last year in Oklahoma City, in a public-housing project named…
January 14, 2014
Dina Kraft
"How'd you find that pickpocket story, Adam Green?"

"How’d you find that pickpocket story, Adam Green?"

GreenIn “A Pickpocket’s Tale,” in the Jan. 7 issue of The New Yorker, Adam Green told the engrossing story of professional thief Apollo Robbins, who has plucked personal items from…
January 18, 2013
Paige Williams
David Grann on murder, madness and writing for The New Yorker

David Grann on murder, madness and writing for The New Yorker

After years spent thinking he would become a novelist, David Grann turned to nonfiction, realizing that if he found intriguing characters and situations in real life, he “simply had to excavate…
April 5, 2010
Andrea Pitzer