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Brooke Shields's Sweetness Was Matched Only By Her Denial
Originally published as “Brooke on the Brink” in the October, 1990 issue of New York Woman, this profile appears here with the author’s permission....
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What It Meant To Be Young And Homeless In Old New York
This feature originally appeared as “The Young and the Homeless” in the September, 1987 issue of New York Woman, and appears here with the author’s permission....
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Down And Out With Art Schlichter, Football God Turned Con Man
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....
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Getting It Straight: When Women Realized The AIDS Crisis Was Theirs Too
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David Cronenberg Makes The Unfilmable His Own
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....
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Garry Shandling's Power Was His Fear
Originally published in the February 1997 issue of GQ as “Shandling Agonistes” this story appears here with the author’s permission....
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The Making Of The Golden Boy
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The Woman Who Fought Bulls
“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....
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Alex Wolff Tells Us How He Put Together An Awesome New Anthology Of Hoops Writing
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 reputa...
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The World Took So Much From Me, But Baseball Gave It Back
Originally featured in the anthology Birth of a Fan (Ed. Ron Fimrite), 1993, this essay appears here with permission....
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Requiem For A Forgotten Globetrotter
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....
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Before He Surrendered, Roberto Duran Was Looking To Harm
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Amen To Sonny Liston, The Better Sinner
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René Magritte As Philosophical Detective
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Inside The Punishing Dictatorship That Was James Cameron's <i>Titanic</i> Set
This feature was originally published in the December, 1997 issue of Premiere magazine and appears here with permission....
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<i>The Black Stallion </i>Takes Film Back To Its Elemental Beginnings
Originally published in the April, 1980 issue of Chicago Magazine, featured in the new anthology, Movies That Mattered, it appears here with permission....
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How The Brothers Selmon Became The Most Admired Family In Football
First published as “The Brotherhood of Selmon” in the September 1980 issue of Inside Sports, this story appears here with permission....