Perfidy
For those of you who, unlike me, are in need of reading material
Cool Tools has compiled a list of the 100 greatest magazine articles. With links! You can apparently also suggest new ones and vote articles up or down. The current top five are:
- David Foster Wallace, “Federer As Religious Experience.” The New York Times, Play Magazine, August 20, 2006.
- David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster.” Gourmet Magazine, Aug 2004.
- Neal Stephenson, “Mother Earth, Mother Board: Wiring the Planet.” Wired, December 1996. On laying trans-oceanic fiber optic cable.
- Gay Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” Esquire, April 1966.
- Ron Rosenbaum, “Secrets of the Little Blue Box.” Esquire, October 1971. The first and best account of telephone hackers, more amazing than you might believe.
- Jon Krakauer, “Death of an Innocent: How Christopher McCandless Lost His Way in the Wilds.” Outside Magazine, January 1993. Article that became Into the Wild.
Apparently, they are very good at picking articles, but not so good at counting. Several of these look to be well worth the effort of reading. I think I’ll check out First Wave at Omaha Beach, and a couple Hunter S. Thompson pieces.