West Virginia on Vice

  • Scott McClanahan’s Animal Magnetism

    I think of Scott McClanahan as a kind of reauthenticated version of everything that’s good about Southern writing. I’ve seen him silence a room at least five different times now with just the words that came out of his mouth. Scott just released his first full-length book of nonfiction, and he let us publish a chapter from it. Full story

    2013 Mar 20 Blake Butler Stuff
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  • Motherboard

    The Silent Dish

    In 1956, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory was formed in rural Green Bank, West Virginia, and became the hotbed of radio astronomy in the United States. But now, with cell phones, wi-fi, and radio stations emitting massive amounts of radio waves, doing research at the NRAO… Full story

    2012 Sep 28 Motherboard Tech
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  • Drifting for a Day

    Gerald and John Beckett are known as Pete and Repeat, the two hobo brothers of Parkersburg, West Virginia. They’re 71- and 73-year-old retired nomads with identical hunched stances and scruffy white facial hair. They dress exactly the same as each other every day, walk along the… Full story

    2009 Nov 19 Ben Majoy Stuff
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