Pick of the Week: "Drugstore Cowboy" by Jake Pearson

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Pick of the Week Drugstore Cowboy Jake Pearson • Wired The sting that cost Google $500 million. On February 25, 2009, a then 34-year-old career con man named David Anthony Whitaker left the Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island, and slid into the backseat of an unmarked government car. He was dressed in traditional prison garb—khaki pants, brown shirt, handcuffs, leg irons. A federal agent sat beside him. A second car followed to make sure nobody trailed them or attempted an ambush. Not that anyone expected trouble. This was merely standard procedure when transporting a government cooperator. [...] More Picks Bret, Unbroken Steve Friedman • Runner's World • May 2013 His brain and body shattered in a horrible accident as a young boy, Bret Dunlap thought just being able to hold down a job, keep an apartment, and survive on his own added up to a good enough life. Then he discovered running. Dirty Medicine Katherine Eban • Fortune • May 2013 An investigation into widespread criminal fraud at a generic drug company. Hollywood Bigfoot: Terrence Malick and the Twenty-Year Hiatus That Wasn't Michael Nordine • Los Angeles Review of Books • May 2013 "The mythical image of Malick that has been built up over the last 30-odd years is, in essence, a creation of the same media corps with whom the filmmaker himself has continually chosen not to engage." The Shooting Star and the Model Mark Seal • Vanity Fair • May 2013 Inside the Oscar Pistorius murder case. Please Snort Me: An Oral History of Brooklyn's Most Notorious Bar Vice Staff • Vice • Jan 2008 The story of Kokie’s and its gentrifying Williamsburg neighborhood. News Longform Podcast: Jonathan Shainin The senior editor of Delhi's The Caravan on working abroad: "I find it to be really stimulating to have to interrogate the assumptions that you have as an editor about what's interesting and what's not interesting, what's a good story and what's a bad story, what's the story that's been done a million times already. When you get out of a place that is your place, you have to kind of think through some things in a fresh way. And that can be really productive."

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