Pick of the Week: "My Gucci Addiction" by Buzz Bissinger

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Pick of the Week My Gucci Addiction Buzz Bissinger • GQ How the author of Friday Night Lights came to spend more than half a million dollars on designer clothes. In the past few years, I've bought eighty-one leather jackets. Dozens of boots and leather gloves. I've purchased pants that cost $5,000. I own a $22,000 coat. This winter I took a tour of Milan's Fashion Week (all expenses paid by Gucci, in appreciation of my many, many purchases), where I spent tens of thousands more and began to seriously grapple, once and for all, with a compulsion that could cost me more than just my life savings. My name is Buzz Bissinger. I am 58 years old, the best-selling author of 'Friday Night Lights,' father of three, husband. And I am a shopaholic. [...] More Picks That Other School Shooting Jay Caspian Kang • New York Times Magazine • Mar 2013 On former nursing student One L. Goh, who killed six people at Oikos University in Oakland, and his impact on the Korean immigrant community. The Power of Swarms Ed Yong • Wired • Mar 2013 The new science of collective behavior. The Weeklies Monica Potts • The American Prospect • Mar 2013 On Colorado’s suburban, Ramada-dwelling homeless. Stickeen: The Story of a Dog John Muir • 1909 An adventure on an Alaskan glacier with a new best friend. Unfit for Work Chana Joffe-Walt • Planet Money • Mar 2013 On the skyrocketing number of Americans on disability—14 million at last count, with payouts topping those for food stamps and welfare combined—and what it means for the U.S. economy. News Longform Podcast: Molly Young "Writing a celebrity profile puts you in a position that no human being wants to be in: you are speaking with somebody, you know that they're lying to you, and you know that they know that they're lying to you. That's just the most humiliating position—it violates any human instinct for maintaining dignity." Listen The Latest from Longform Fiction Featured this week on our new fiction section: short stories by Holly Wendt (Bluestem), Blake Butler (The Collagist) and Ander Monson (Boston Review).

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