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When Hunt received a tip-off that the Bureau was sending a man to examine his Igorrote enterprise, he fled town. He went on the run, taking some of the tribespeople with him.
Smithsonian Magazine • The Igorrote Tribe Traveled the World for Show And Made These Two Men Rich
Atwater, trained originally as a background man for news dailies, constructed his own WITW pieces by pouring into his notebooks and word processor an enormous waterfall of prose which was then filtered more and more closely down to 400 words of commercial sediment.
David Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories
On September 12, 2013, I reported Avomeen’s results in an article titled “How Chris McCandless Died,” which was published on The New Yorker website.
Jon Krakauer • Into the Wild
Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd.
Merlin Coverley • Psychogeography
Lewis Hyde published a beautiful dot-connecting book in 1983 called The Gift, which tackles the elusive subject of what Hyde calls “the commerce of the creative spirit.”
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
