The Story of a Suicide | Ian Parker for the New Yorker
A really thorough 14 page piece on the Tyler Clementi/Rutgers case that manages to make reading the texts of awful suburban New Jersey teenagers engaging.
Also, I think my favorite aside was: “That evening, Ravi played Ultimate Frisbee (a sport that, in one online discussion of the Clementi case, was predictably described as “gayer than having sex with a dude”).”
[h/t Tyler]
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