- AP Photo/The Lowell Sun – Julia Malakie
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• This story about the three kidnapped girls who escaped from a Cleveland home where they were held against their will for ten years? (Don’t worry, guys, the world is still an awful, scary place.) —Luca Cimarusti
• How government efficiency—the loss of 500,000 public-sector jobs—has stifled the economic recovery? —Mick Dumke
• That a Yale Divinity School graduate has offered a burial plot to the family of Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev (they’d yet to find a cemetery that would accept the body)? —Gwynedd Stuart
• The Best Little Boy in the World? (A lawyer for the federal government says his concealed sexual orientation may explain why he moved to D.C., “America’s most populous closet, where . . . ambition is in the water supply.” —Steve Bogira
• About the latest New York Times correction? (“An obituary on Saturday about the guitarist Jeff Hanneman, a founder of the band Slayer, misspelled the name of one of the bands with which Slayer has toured. It is Megadeth, not Megadeath.”) —Kate Schmidt
• About the mystique of NPR reporters’ names? —Aimee Levitt
• Antonia Larroux’s death notice? —Tony Adler
• About William Burroughs’s daily routine? (Breakfast included a soft-boiled egg, toast, fresh-squeezed lemonade, very sweet tea, and methadone.) —Tal Rosenberg