Have some time on your hands? How about curling up with your laptop and catching up on the
best long reads of 2014, from Longform. From true crime to recent history to politics and society, Longform has got you covered. Here's a snippet from Dave Weigel's
"The Weirdest Story About a Conservative Obsession, a Convicted Bomber, and Taylor Swift You Have Ever Read."
[N]obody would recover the countless hours spent on the Kimberlin Saga. It started as a spat between a few writers and went on to involve a U.S. senator, dozens of Republican congressmen, a Fox News commentator, SWAT teams in two time zones, Barbra Streisand, and whoever Kimberlin decided to add to a federal RICO case. His current targets include James O’Keefe, Michelle Malkin, Breitbart.com, Glenn Beck’s websites, and Simon & Schuster.
Or maybe you want to know more about the life of 93 year-old
Roger Angell.
I’ve endured a few knocks but missed worse. I know how lucky I am, and secretly tap wood, greet the day, and grab a sneaky pleasure from my survival at long odds. The pains and insults are bearable. My conversation may be full of holes and pauses, but I’ve learned to dispatch a private Apache scout ahead into the next sentence, the one coming up, to see if there are any vacant names or verbs in the landscape up there. If he sends back a warning, I’ll pause meaningfully, duh, until something else comes to mind.
There's much, much more
from Longform.