From Pickup Artist to Pariah
A small-town coffeeshop owner led a double life as a blogger and podcaster on the topic of “pickup artistry.” Then his identity, and his intimate writings about his experiences with 46 local women, was made public.
A small-town coffeeshop owner led a double life as a blogger and podcaster on the topic of “pickup artistry.” Then his identity, and his intimate writings about his experiences with 46 local women, was made public.
Rachel Monroe New York Jan 2016 20min Permalink
Doc was a medical student in his 40s, but he spent his nights with the teenagers who hung around his San Antonion apartment complex, buying them drugs and booze. The first time he asked one of them to ritualistically kill him, they laughed it off. He would ask again.
Rachel Monroe Matter Apr 2015 35min Permalink
An ode to Roy Orbison.
Rachel Monroe Oxford American Jan 2015 10min Permalink
The writings of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik are a copy-and-paste hodgepodge of “jeremiads against the scourge of cultural theory, lists of atrocities perpetuated by Muslims, and pages of derision of ‘female sluts,’ but also Wikipedia articles about sugar beet farming and investment tips.”
Rachel Monroe Los Angeles Review of Books May 2014 10min Permalink
On the murder of a popular bar owner in a ghost town near the Mexican border.
Rachel Monroe Outside May 2014 20min Permalink
What really happened in the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion?
Rachel Monroe Oxford American Mar 2014 30min Permalink