Pick of the Week: "'North Pond Hermit,' Suspect in More than 1,000 Maine Burglaries, Captured" by Craig Crosby

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Pick of the Week 'North Pond Hermit,' Suspect in More than 1,000 Maine Burglaries, Captured Craig Crosby • Kennebec Journal • April 2013 How 27 years of solitude came to an end. Christopher Knight went into the central Maine wilderness 27 years ago. He built a hut on a slope in the woods, where he spent his days reading books and meditating. There he lived, re-entering civilization only to steal supplies from camps under the cover of darkness. During those nearly three decades, he spoke just once to another person – until he was arrested during a burglary last week. In between, Knight told police, he committed more than 1,000 burglaries, always taking only what he needed to survive. He became so familiar for his thievery and elusiveness that he spawned the local legend of the North Pond Hermit, who for years confounded both locals and police investigating the break-ins. [...] More Picks The Body in Room 348 Mark Bowden • Vanity Fair • Apr 2013 Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel. Travels in the New Psychedelic Bazaar Vanessa Grigoriadis • New York • Apr 2013 Inside the DIY world of synthetic drugs. Director's Cut: 'The Man. Amen.' Michael MacCambridge, Charles Pierce • Grantland • Apr 2013 A classic profile of a 21-year-old Tiger Woods, annotated in 2013. Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines, and Dope Fiends George Pendle • Cabinet • April 2013 The rise and fall of Synanon, an addiction-recovery cult in California, and its charismatic leader, a one-time homeless wino named Chuck Dederich who taught his followers to berate each other for therapy. Death of a Revolutionary Susan Faludi • New Yorker • Apr 2013 Shulamith Firestone, one of the first radical feminists, helped to create a new society. But she couldn’t live in it. News Longform Podcast: Patrick Symmes "They rolled us up like a cheap carpet. We were locked in a room for 14 hours. And for the first six hours that was okay. Everything was nice; there was coffee. But then the nightshift came on. You could hear gunshots in the street, and these guys were scared. And they were thugs. And they were thugs with a mission: to get rid of every foreigner who might witness what was happening." Listen Longform for iPad 1.1.5 A new release of our iPad app is available in the App Store, and it includes a slew of great new magazines to follow. Longform for iPad delivers picks from our editors, plus the latest articles from more than 80 of the world's best magazines, in an elegant, reader-friendly design. It's perfect for commutes, flights, and Sunday afternoons. Download Longform from the App Store

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