septembre 29th, 2010
The Genuine Article
“Best of” lists for books are ubiquitous, but what of magazines?
Click into “The Best Magazine Articles Ever” post on Cool Tools, a site run by Wired magazine editor-at-large Kevin Kelly. Based on reader recommendations and voted on, the top 25 includes Esquire’s 1966 piece “Frank Sinatra Has A Cold” and the original Outside Magazine article Jon Krakauer based his book Into Thin Air on. Most link to complete transcripts, and there’s a lengthy archived list of all articles put forth that date as far back as 1816.
Bookmark it for those coffee breaks when you can’t commit to War and Peace.
