longreads:

Announcing: Our first-ever ebook!
Longreads: Best of 2011 includes seven of our favorite stories from the past year.
The ebook is a unique partnership with the writers and publishers—we want to help celebrate outstanding storytelling, … — longreads:

Announcing: Our first-ever ebook!

*Longreads: Best of 2011* includes seven of our favorite stories from the past year.

The ebook is a unique partnership with the writers and publishers—we want to help celebrate outstanding storytelling, and this is just another way for us to do it. Additionally, money from the ebook sales will be shared with the creators, and we’re excited to have them participating.

*Longreads: Best of 2011* is available now and includes:

• “Travis the Menace,” by Dan P. Lee (New York magazine)

• “Vanishing Act,” by Paul Collins (Lapham’s Quarterly)

• “In Which We Teach You How to Be a Woman in Any Boy’s Club,” by Molly Lambert (This Recording)

• “What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447,” by Jeff Wise (Popular Mechanics)

• “Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World,” by Amy Harmon (New York Times)

• “The Girl from Trails End,” by Kathy Dobie (GQ)

• “Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library,” by Maria Bustillos (The Awl)

Very cool

Is that all it takes? (Yes.)

Paste Magazine and Rolling Stone both named The Nerdist one of the ten best podcasts of the year, which means that it’s now a TV show.

gq:

The Most ‘America’ Ever Crammed Into One Photo
This happy Friday discovery comes via Copyranter. — gq:

The Most ‘America’ Ever Crammed
Into One Photo

This happy Friday discovery comes via Copyranter.

Made in Colombia →

But seriously, who knew wheelbarrows floated?

SOME of you may have completed your gift-buying weeks ago, but Debenhams has revealed a rise in sales of Chanel No.5 represents the start of men’s Christmas shopping for the year.

"It’s like a starting pistol going off," Debenhams spokesperson Ruth Attridge told The Daily Mail. “As soon as we see sales of Chanel No. 5 rising, we know that men have begun the race to get their Christmas shopping done. Men just want to get into store, pick up the items they want as quickly as possible - and leave”.

Best email I've gotten in awhile

Hi, Thank you for entering our Watch Paint Dry Competition. Unfortunately, we did not receive the correct image with your email entry. To enter the competition, you must submit a photo of you watching paint dry. I look forward to receiving your photo entry. With thanks,

Perhaps our memory, in its endless quest to protect us from ourselves, fixates on the moment when the ball rolls through Buckner’s legs, because the real source of remembered pain might be too much to bear.

Everything Charles Pierce writes on Esquire.com feels very important right now →

Noah Davis CV

CV

EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE

FREELANCE WRITER, New York, NY January 2005 – Present

Print: The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Time Out New York, Lexus Magazine, Cigar Aficionado, The Onion AV Club, Open Skies (Emirates Inflight Magazine), Penthouse, Afar, Diverse, Co-Ed, Design Bureau, Green Street Soccer
Online: Sports Illustrated, New York, Wired, Deadspin, The Verge, Buzzfeed, The Classical, The Awl, Run of Play, Complex, Weather.com, This Recording, The Hairpin, Nerve, Paper, Guyism, PopMatters, Business Insider, mediabistro.com, MLS Soccer, Good Men Project

MEDIABISTRO.COM, New York, NY; Contracted freelance work August 2008 – Present

Interview biggest names in media; write twice-weekly Revolving Door newsletter sent to 100,000+

Co-editor, FishbowlNY.com May 2008 – August 2009

Write eight posts/day; break news; linked by Perez Hilton, Gawker, HuffPo, Portfolio, NYO Associate editor October 2006 – July 2008
Assign, write, edit, produce articles;edit Daily Media Newsfeed, sent to 125,000 people

BUSINESS INSIDER, New York NY; Associate editor March 2011 – December 2011

Write, produce, edit error-free copy; break news; interview editors and publishers
Aggregate content while providing commentary on the media stories of the day

MLSSOCCER.com, New York, NY; Contributing editor September 2010-August 2011

Cover the United States National Team for Major League Soccer’s website.
Report on site from Colombia, Guatemala, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles

GOAL.COM, New York NY; Contributing editor June 2006 – August 2010

Cover the United States National Team for international soccer site with 10 million uniques
Write 3,000 words/day while reporting from 2010 World Cup in South Africa

DRAFTMAG.com, Phoenix, AZ; Web editor September 2008 –June 2010

Edit the leading beer magazine’s website; assign articles, write six items per day, shoot video
Traffic increased 400 percent during tenure

SPORTSILLUSTRATED.COM, New York NY; Columnist March 2009 – March 2010

Write a weekly column about the MLS and World Cup preview articles
Co-host weekly soccer podcast with editor Jonah Freedman

NBC OLYMPICS, New York, New York; Researcher July 2008 – August 2008

Provide research for the soccer and basketball telecasts of the 2008 Olympics

TIME OUT NEW YORK, New York, NY; Sports editor November 2005 – January 2007

Research and produced weekly sports column appearing in the Around Town section

EDUCATION

BATES COLLEGE, Lewiston, ME May 2005

B.A. Rhetoric, (minor: Philosophy);

Honors: Dean’s List (Spring 2003)

Activities: Bates Squash team (2002-2005), Chase Hall Committee, Bates Fishing Club

UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, New South Wales, AUS July 2003 - December 2003

How do you really feel, AV Club?

It’s 9/11 through the eyes of a caffeinated 9-year-old Harper’s contributor.

nevver:

Probability of a White Christmas

They’re up to the 92nd floor of One World Trade Center, which will replace the twin towers, whose destruction a decade ago began this whole regrettable era. They added 40 new stories this year, almost one a week. What everyone knows but won’t say is that we loved the old buildings only in the negative, as shafts of light on summer nights. They were violent in their homogeneity, in their Bauhaus rejection of history, “a pair of fangs” at the end of Manhattan, as Norman Mailer put it when arguing against them ever being built, rightly predicting that if they did go up, they’d be working for the devil. But the new structure keeps surprising with its beauty. You’ll be downtown at night and you’ll look south and see its light-dotted form, fragile but determined—like a flower coming up through the snow. →

“All the seven movies included in the Football package turned out to be hot favourites at the Festival. In fact, the package had football worshippers, unusual visitors in film festival venues,making a beeline to the theatres.”

— We’re huge in India.

saragregory:

My favorite photo from the 2011 in Legos series. Original here. (via The Guardian on Flickr)

I am fully in support of Legos depicting the most important events of life but no plastic head could ever match Hill’s face in the orig… — saragregory:

My favorite photo from the 2011 in Legos series. Original here. (via The Guardian on Flickr)

I am fully in support of Legos depicting the most important events of life but no plastic head could ever match Hill’s face in the original.

There are so many other problems, too. Those coffee cups.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/guardianonfli...

Hey, here’s this thing I wrote about Browns football.

And he’d be like, ‘Smiley face, so excited!’

via The Awl