Saturday, April 27, 2013

Top 25 Magazine Articles Ever

The following are suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever. Stars denote how many times a correspondent has suggested it:

********** Gay Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.” Esquire, April 1966.

********* Hunter S. Thompson, ”The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved.” Scanlan’s Monthly, June 1970.

********* Neal Stephenson, “Mother Earth, Mother Board: Wiring the Planet.” Wired, December 1996. On laying trans-oceanic fiber optic cable.

******* David Foster Wallace, “Federer As Religious Experience.” The New York Times, Play Magazine, August 20, 2006.

******* David Foster Wallace, “Consider the Lobster.” Gourmet Magazine, August 2004.
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