Donald Trump finished college almost 50 years ago, on the cusp of the Counterculture. So did I. We didn’t learn much about girls. Self-immolation was a popular activity in the mid-1960s for Buddhist priests in Vietnam. Not to be outdone, Concordiensis, the student newspaper of Union College, in Schenectady, N.Y…

Digital Diagnosis in Overdrive Barry Newman | Longreads | August 2016 | 11 minutes (2,698 words) My headache arrived just after April Fools’ Day, moving into orbit around my right eye, with side trips to the back of my neck. It was mild as headaches go, but persistent, there at bedtime, still there when…

Writing about people nobody wants to write about — The Anticelebrity Profile If Lady Gaga, Scarlett Johansson, and Prince Charles called and asked me to write their life stories, I’d beg off, even though life stories are the most engaging stories to write. Starting out, I flirted with the near-to-famous: Pete Sheehy, the New York Yankees locker room attendant (I saw Yogi…