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Down And Out With Art Schlichter, Football God Turned Con Man

Loren Feldman — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 17:07:00 GMT

Originally published as “The Long, Slow Fall of a Gridiron God” in the December, 1988 issue of GQ, this profile appears here with the author’s permission.

Getting It Straight: When Women Realized The AIDS Crisis Was Theirs Too

Sue Woodman — Thu, 7 Jun 2018 21:35:00 GMT

Sue Woodman’s feature on how the AIDS crisis impacted women was published in the Jan/Feb, 1987 issue of New York Woman and appears here with the author’s permission.

David Cronenberg Makes The Unfilmable His Own

John H. Richardson — Tue, 29 May 2018 19:35:00 GMT

This feature on David Cronenberg’s movie adaptation of William Burroughs’s beat classic, The Naked Lunch, was first published in the February 1992 issue of Premiere, and appears here with the author’s permission.

Jamie Lee Curtis, On The Eve Of A Flop, Searches For Her True Self

Gail Sheehy — Thu, 3 May 2018 21:13:00 GMT

Originally published as “How to be Jamie Lee Curtis” in the July 15, 1985 issue of US magazine, this profile appears here with the author’s permission.

Katharine Graham Was Not To Be Fucked With

Diane K. Shah — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:15:00 GMT

This was first published as “Pillar of the Post” in the May 20, 1976 issue of The National Observer. It appears here with the author’s permission.

Garry Shandling's Power Was His Fear

Gerri Hirshey — Mon, 9 Apr 2018 12:00:00 GMT

Originally published in the February 1997 issue of GQ as “Shandling Agonistes” this story appears here with the author’s permission.

The Making Of The Golden Boy

Vic Ziegel — Thu, 5 Apr 2018 18:14:00 GMT

Originally published in the July 1996 issue of Playboy and reprinted here with permission.

The Woman Who Fought Bulls

Susan Orlean — Wed, 21 Mar 2018 18:36:00 GMT

“La Matadora Revisa Su Maquillaje (The Bullfighter Checks Her Makeup)” was first published in May 2004 issue of Outside and is featured in the new anthology The Stories We Tell and appears here with permission.

Alex Wolff Tells Us How He Put Together An Awesome New Anthology Of Hoops Writing

Alex Belth — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 18:30:00 GMT

The Library of America’s newest sports anthology, Basketball: Great Writing About America’s Game, is out and deserves a place on the shelf of any self-respecting hoops fan. We recently sat down with the book’s editor, longtime SI scribe Alex Wolff, and talked about why basketball, despite its reputation, might inspire…

The World Took So Much From Me, But Baseball Gave It Back

J. Anthony Lukas — Tue, 6 Mar 2018 21:13:00 GMT

Originally featured in the anthology Birth of a Fan (Ed. Ron Fimrite), 1993, this essay appears here with permission.

Requiem For A Forgotten Globetrotter

Peter Goldman — Thu, 1 Mar 2018 21:18:00 GMT

Originally published in the November, 1977 issue of Sport, and featured in the Library of America’s new basketball anthology, Basketball: Great Writing About America’s Game. It is reprinted here with permission.

Hope And Glory Turned The Blitz Into A Party

Pauline Kael — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:44:00 GMT

This review of Hope and Glory was originally published in the New Yorker (October 5, 1987) and appears here with permission.

Before He Surrendered, Roberto Duran Was Looking To Harm

Vic Ziegel — Wed, 7 Feb 2018 21:03:00 GMT

Originally published in Inside Sports (June, 1980), this story appears here with permission.

Serve Shishito Peppers at Your Super Bowl Party

Claire Lower on Skillet, shared by Alex Belth to The Stacks — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:00:00 GMT

When serving food to a large amount of drunk people, it is important to have a few high-impact crowd pleasers you can make quickly and easily. The blistered shishito pepper is just that, and it is made for dipping. (I, for one, am of the opinion that at least half of your Big Game spread should consist of dippable…

Amen To Sonny Liston, The Better Sinner

Joe Flaherty — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:47:00 GMT

Joe Flaherty’s obituary for Sonny Liston originally appeared in The Village Voice (January 14, 1971) and is also featured in At the Fights. It appears here with permission.

Deadspin Interview: Ta-Nehisi Coates

Dennis Young on Deadspin, shared by Alex Belth to The Stacks — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:01:00 GMT

Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new book We Were Eight Years In Power is eight previously published Atlantic essays each preceded by a new piece of writing that describes Coates’s intellectual, financial, and emotional state at the time of the piece, and musings on the Obama years. The eight new essays trace his journey from what…

René Magritte As Philosophical Detective

Luc Sante — Mon, 8 Jan 2018 19:59:00 GMT

This essay was originally published in the Threepenny Review (1994), is featured in Sante’s anthology, Kill All Your Darlings, and appears here with the author’s permission.

Inside The Punishing Dictatorship That Was James Cameron's Titanic Set

John H. Richardson — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:05:00 GMT

This feature was originally published in the December, 1997 issue of Premiere magazine and appears here with permission.

The Black Stallion Takes Film Back To Its Elemental Beginnings

Dave Kehr — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:38:00 GMT

Originally published in the April, 1980 issue of Chicago Magazine, featured in the new anthology, Movies That Mattered, it appears here with permission.

How The Brothers Selmon Became The Most Admired Family In Football

Pete Dexter — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:15:00 GMT

First published as “The Brotherhood of Selmon” in the September 1980 issue of Inside Sports, this story appears here with permission.

The Eight Truths I Learned From Humping Athletes

Allison Glock — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 18:40:00 GMT

This piece originally appeared in the April 1995 issue of GQ. It is reprinted here with permission.

Heaven Is A Down-And-Out Hockey Town

Scott Raab — Tue, 7 Nov 2017 22:09:00 GMT

This piece originally appeared in the April, 1995 issue of GQ. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission.

Looking For Peace With The Man On The Wire

Marilyn Johnson — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:50:00 GMT

Originally published as “Philippe Petit: Slow Dancing on the High Wire” in the October, 1986 issue of New York Woman, this feature appears here with permission from the author.

Muhammad Ali's Desperate Twilight

Jonathan Eig — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:02:00 GMT

Excerpted from Ali: A Life, By Jonathan Eig.

A Day On The Set Of Fat City, John Huston's Cult Classic

Grover Lewis — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 19:12:00 GMT

Originally published as “Up In Fat City: On The Set With Keach And Huston” in the Rolling Stone in 1971, this feature appears here with permission from Lewis’s estate.