Pick of the Week: "In the Crosshairs" by Nicholas Schmidle

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Pick of the Week In the Crosshairs Nicholas Schmidle • New Yorker On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who killed him. On the morning of August 2, 2006, three Navy seals walked onto the roof of a four-story apartment building in Ramadi, in central Iraq. One of them, a petty officer and a sniper named Chris Kyle, got into position with his rifle. Peering through his gun’s scope, Kyle scanned the streets below; as other American soldiers searched and cordoned off homes, he waited for insurgents to appear in his sight line. [...] More Picks Hector Camacho's Vida Macho Paul Solotaroff • Men's Journal • Apr 2013 In the ring, Hector “Macho” Camacho was a champ. Out of it, he was a coke-fueled, womanizing wild man, until the appetites that consumed him cost him his life. Stephen King: The Fresh Air Interview Terry Gross • NPR • May 2013 "I think I could put up with a lot of things and a lot of pain. I have put up with a lot of pain. I got hit by a car in 1999 and got most of the bones on the right side of my body broken, and I bore up under that and I got better. But you can't get better if your mind is stolen away from you." Private Ceremonies Patricia O'Connor • Vela • May 2013 The author, an abortion counselor, was 40 and pregnant when a conflicted Catholic woman came to her clinic. The Greatest Vendetta on Earth Jeff Stein • Salon • Aug 2011 Why the head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired a former CIA agent to ruin a freelance writer’s career. The Death and Life of Chicago Ben Austen • New York Times Magazine • May 2013 How the foreclosure crisis ignited a new form of activism in Chicago's vacant homes. News Longform Podcast #43: Margalit Fox, New York Times Obituary Writer "You do get emotionally involved with people, even though as a journalist you're not supposed to. But as a human being, how can you not? Particularly people who had difficult, tragic, poignant lives. But there are also people that you just wish you had known. And, of course, the painful irony is that you're only getting to know them by virtue of the fact that it's too late."

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