Via Plog: Six classic American magazine stories reimagined for the digital age. Excerpt:
Earlier this week, a list of some of the best magazine stories of all time bounced its way around Twitter, paying tribute to some of literary journalism's pioneers, including Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe.
Of course, those kinds of stories -- thousands of words meticulously placed after dozens of hours of reporting, eagerly lapped up by a much-less-harried reading public -- are fewer and farther between these days (although they certainly still happen.)
That got us thinking: What would some of those stories look like if they were written today?
We picked six of our favorites, and reworked them for today's audiences. Should you be bored, you're encouraged to rework your own favorites in the comments.
"Superman Comes to the Supermarket," by Norman Mailer. Esquire, 1960
What it Was: Part psycho-analysis of a country, part political dispatch, Mailer's story about the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles is Esquire's most famous piece of political reporting.
What it Would Look Like Today: A list, destined to be eviscerated by commenters on Digg: "LA. Still Sucks, and 9 Other Things I Learned at the DNC."
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