Steve Kandell is the longfom editor at BuzzFeed.

"What would be the sort of longer, narrative nonfiction, journalistic equivalent of something that would have the same effect on you as a bunch of cat GIFs? And not because it's cute, but it's the kind of thing that makes you go, 'OK, I need a lot of other people to see this.'"

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Show notes:

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"David Lee Roth Will Not Go Quietly" (BuzzFeed • Apr 2012)

[7:30] "The Movie Set That Ate Itsef" (Michael Idov • GQ • November 2011)

[7:45] "Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie" (Stephen Rodrick • New York Times Magazine • January 2013)

[16:35] "How 'Golden Eagle Snatches Kid' Ruled the Internet" (Chris Stokel-Walker • BuzzFeed • February 2013)

[17:35] "The Ghosts of Jonesboro: Fifteen Years After A School Shooting, a Small Town Is Still Recovering" (David Peisner • BuzzFeed • March 2013)

[23:40] "Atari Teenage Riot: The Inside Story of Pong and the Video Game Industry's Big Bang" (Chris Stokel-Walker • BuzzFeed • November 2012)

[24:30] "Dispatches from the Front Line of Florida's Wild Python Hunt" (Amanda Petrusich • BuzzFeed • February 2013)

[27:00] "When A Ten-Year Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?" (Natasha Vargas-Cooper • BuzzFeed • February 2013)

[34:30] "Why Did Jodon Romero Kill Himself on Live Television?" (Jessica Testa • BuzzFeed • May 2013)

[35:40] "How A War Hero Became A Serial Bank Robber" (Scott Johnson • BuzzFeed • March 2013)

[36:10] "Deep Inside the Biggest Little Dildo Factory in America" (Natasha Vargas-Cooper • BuzzFeed • May 2013)

[41:30] "Ben Mathis-Lilly's Brilliant Tirade on New Media" (Storify)

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