So, so, so thrilled that Anna Altman is a finalist for a Deadline Club Award for her The Atavist Magazine story THE QUALITY OF MERCY! Congrats to her and all the other finalists.

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'Not only did the Handcuff Man exist, but there were people in Atlanta who knew his name, including members of the police force.'

An excerpt from The Atavist Magazine issue no. 149 by Hallie Lieberman, about a mysterious man who preyed on gay men in Atlanta: longreads.com/2024/04/04/han…

In 1991, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that 'a sadistic Woody Allen lookalike … scrawny and peering with eyeglasses through his car window' was stalking and attacking gay men in Atlanta. Turns out, the police knew exactly who he was. Hallie Lieberman

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What a fantastic compliment. (But also sorry about your sleep patterns and the bit part we play in them!)

One of the best in our archives!

My take on royal intrigue is

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This month's archive pick for The Atavist Magazine is one of my ABSOLUTE faves we've ever published. It's by David Mark Simpson. Come for the bros pretending to be cops, stay for the followup, in which one of the subjects bungled his effort to get the article taken down.

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Watch It Burn: Check out this insane story about the world's biggest criminal carbon trading scam, by Jessica Camille Aguirre for The Atavist Magazine magazine.atavist.com/author/jessica…

What a story here from Jessica Camille Aguirre, involving the “prince of carbon,” McDonald’s, a Lamborghini Murciélago, dogs named Anakin and Bugatti, a Greek island, and so much more

maybe the real friends were the scammers we met along the way! fascinating read ⬇️

yes, the european scandal du jour is whither kate middleton, but let me direct your attention to another story, complete with fraud PLUS the heist of billions of dollars.

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🔪🔪🔪 from my carbon scam story: magazine.atavist.com/watch-it-burn-…

'No one was ever sure who was working with whom, who might be screwing someone else over, or who had started the whole thing.'

Read an excerpt from Jessica Camille Aguirre's new The Atavist Magazine story about the biggest carbon trading scam in history: longreads.com/2024/03/05/pri…

There's an excellent longread by Sean Williams in The Atavist Magazine about how Putin used these same tactics on West Germany while working for the Stasi: magazine.atavist.com/follow-the-lea…

“I made a colossal profit as a broker, and what I did behind the scenes, nobody knew. The best way to go unnoticed is to be noticed. Like Goebbels said, ‘The bigger the lie, the more people believe it.’ ”

You gotta read Jessica Camille Aguirre's new story.

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Terrific new @McGrawCenter Fellowship story by Jessica Camille Aguirre. Five years in the works -- but well worth the wait! Come for the terrific writing and scene-setting, stay for jaw-dropping reporting. Congrats Jessica! We're very proud @NewmarkJSchool to have supported this work.

In case 13k words isn't enough for you, I also went on the Creative Nonfiction Podcast to talk my carbon scam story for The Atavist Magazine - also Janet Malcolm, being crushed by rejection and incarnating Jason Bourne brendanomeara.com/episode-401-je…

This piece by Jessica Camille Aguirre on The Prince of Carbon is the sexiest, most fabulous writing I've read for ages - the cigar smoke and heavy aftershave of the villains waft off the page. Opening scene: fraudster horrifies US cops by opening door in speedos magazine.atavist.com/watch-it-burn-…

I wrote about the biggest carbon trading scam in history, the two men at its center, and how their billion-dollar fraud was laced with betrayal. Embedded in the story are the mind games, money networks and market trickery that took me FIVE YEARS to report: magazine.atavist.com/watch-it-burn-…