Category: Original
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5 Podcasts to Listen to This Summer
Hey everyone, Jody Avirgan here. Way back when, when SLR was just getting started, I provided podcast recs for Jacob and Don each week. Turns out, my keys still work, so I broke back in to offer you some summer podcast listening tips. Shows that will keep you engaged as you sit in beach traffic,…
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When Flamingos Came to the Chesapeake
What happens when your home changes? How does it feel when that change is irrevocable, existential, and a little bit ominous?
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What do you do after you accidentally kill a child?
The worst Thursday of Ryan Nickerson’s life started like any other. But he’s had to live with its consequences every day since.
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‘Not today’: The twin miracles of Palm Beach
The pilot went unconscious at 10,000 feet. Neither of the passengers had ever flown a plane. For them to survive, it would take a miracle. Or two.
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SLR Classic Read: A Woman Burns
Jack Shafer: With the decline of capital punishment so too wanned the American execution story, pioneered by Lafcadio Hearn in 1876, romanticized by Ben Hecht throughout his journalistic career, and perfected by Norman Mailer. The grittiest example of the genre probably belongs to journalist Gene Fowler who filed the following deadline account of a Sing…
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In the Land of the Very Old, Part Two
Sam Toperoff’s final piece is a return to The Land of the Very Old.
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