"From 1979 to the mid-1980s, they lived like kings across the Caribbean, buying property and planes and partying nightly with Jimmy Buffett and other patron saints of the counterculture." —Jack Crosbie for Rolling Stone
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/harvey-prager-weed-smuggler-1235518138/?src=longreads #truecrime #longreads #journalism #adventure #travel
The Last Great Weed Smuggler
Before the cartels took over, Harvey Prager built a life on millions of dollars of drug money. A prosecutor called him “the last of the amateurs."
"I couldn’t believe I would be dying in fucking Minnesota, of all places. I wasn’t even from here." —Christopher Ingraham for Slate
https://slate.com/life/2026/03/health-care-cancer-treatment-doctor-hospital.html?src=longreads #health #medicine #medicalmystery #longreads
I Ignored the Signs. I Was Only 42. When I Saw the Look on My Doctor’s Face, I Knew What Was Coming—or So I Thought.
I've driven myself crazy by thinking through counterfactuals. All I'm left with is what really happened.
"My sister called: our father was about to die. Our parents, long divorced, were both in hospice, on opposite coasts." —Amanda Peet for The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-season-of-ativan?src=longreads
#longreads #family #hospice #cancer #writing #reading
Amanda Peet on Getting Breast Cancer While Losing Her Parents
The actress, whose movies and TV shows include “Something’s Gotta Give,” “The Whole Nine Yards,” and “Your Friends and Neighbors,” on getting treatment with support from her husband, David Benioff.
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