jonah ogles

Articles editor @atavistmag. Formerly of @outsidemagazine and @cincinnatimag. Send your best yarns, romps, and potboilers to jonah at atavist dot com.

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Writers! Want to write big, ambitious stories for @atavistmag? READ THIS THREAD.

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It's that time: Call for pitches! We get plenty, & plenty of great ones, but I'm greedy. I esp love hearing from @WritersofColor, those who identify as female or queer, & other minorities in media. If you have a kickass narrative longform feature idea, I'm at [email protected].

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From our 150th issue, about a corrupt cop in New Orleans, a hit he ordered on a civilian who filed a brutality complaint against him, and the wider legacy of harm he left in the city.

https://t.co/jJndug3Uz9

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MAYDAY en français!

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The latest @atavist story is an incredible story of survival and so much more by @_WilliamRalston You just have to read it https://t.co/RzYIT0cSyJ

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In August, I headed to Colombia to find out about the four missing children in the Amazon. Here’s what I found out — featuring fortune-tellers, ayahuasca rituals, a heroic dog, and more. https://t.co/SbfOrzM5uL Thanks to: @atavist @jonahogles @seywarddarby

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This month's @atavist is the gutwrenching story of Gary Settle, who has helped dozens of his fellow prisoners receive compassionate release in their last days—and who is dying himself. @banannaaltman delivered a really stunning piece.

https://t.co/JoT7ZAajsQ

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"The Valencia’s fate was sealed: It was sinking, and there would be no saving it." This month's @atavist is an epic tale of tragedy and survival from @thooper8.
https://t.co/uHdXOe8EQ0

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"There would be time in the future to consider, almost endlessly, what happened to O’Loughlin. For now, in a panic, all Hu could do was wonder: Where had he taken their son?"

Our new story from @ericpape.

https://t.co/V9eYDes5Hf

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When a storm surge swept dozens of wild horses and cattle from the coast of North Carolina, no one expected there to be survivors. Then hoofprints appeared in the sand. @JB_MacKinnon explores how they got there for @atavist. https://t.co/NJF0aQDIdS

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This month's @atavist was an absolute joy to work on. @cassidyjrandall wrote one of my favorite adventure stories ever, about @susieBgoodall's incredible attempt to go around the world, alone, in a sailboat. Buckle up! https://t.co/nArN3SD67J

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"If she’d ever wanted to pick up the phone and speak to her family, it was now—to tell someone who loved her what had happened, what she’d survived."

If you read anything this weekend, let it be this incredible new @atavist story: https://t.co/kVVSoxFANX

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“Stay away from Miller,” an older female student said at lunch one day. “He tries to sleep with students.”

@seywarddarby's dive into the culture of grooming and sexual abuse at one of L.A.'s top public high schools is a heartbreaking read. @atavist

https://t.co/4klb1rcM8c

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Like the idea of racing a horse straight down a hill, through a raging river, and into a rodeo arena filled with people waiting to see who made it through unscathed? Then @addsodium's new @atavist—about the Suicide Race in Omak, Washington—is for you. https://t.co/VnPOM3iqZl

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In the 1980s an East German criminal was delivered across the Berlin Wall to fuel a tide of neo-Nazi violence that still plagues Germany today.

His name was Rainer Sonntag—and he was a Communist spy.

His handler? Vladimir Putin.

https://t.co/7FRH282zN6

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"For the previous 35 years, Tim Brown had been living a carefully constructed lie. He wasn’t just an aging retiree with a passion for aviation. In fact, he wasn’t Tim Brown at all." @GregJDonahue @atavist
https://t.co/HJRLYuq0Vo

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Danny again made a choice: Buzz would be his reason for living, and this time Janie would be too. “I will stay,” Danny told Janie, “until the end.”
The new @atavist story from Kelly Loudenberg is a real gut-punch of a read. https://t.co/OuRLjVcNHC

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If you don't cry a little reading @billdonahue13's story about the father and son who crossed the Bering Strait in a homemade boat to escape the USSR, I'll give you a nickle. https://t.co/APVsHgdANz

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"While I may have been Nanny’s shadow, she also had a ghost." In this month's @atavist, @chgrimaldi dives deep into a family secret—and the religious sect that stole her grandmother's childhood. https://t.co/V9up0GolDJ

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For decades, the Rapanui were confined within a wall on their homeland of Easter Island. Then a schoolteacher decided to lead a revolution. You won't believe this month's @atavist from @mjdamiano. https://t.co/BoFMGZ4ot6

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How do the women of Las Rastreadoras del Fuerte keep the memory of their loved ones alive? By making their favorite dishes. @AnneliseJolley's story is a gut-punch, with incredible photos and video from Zahara Gómez Lucini.
https://t.co/uw2G26B3f1

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This month's @atavist is a you'll-never-believe-this tale of an American drifter who joined the Cuban revolution, served as Castro's executioner, and then became a test case for U.S. civil rights. @TonyPerrottet delivers the goods. https://t.co/ezeP2I9Le6