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Shaun Raviv

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i think if i had to pick my absolute all time favorite piece of journalism & possibly non-fiction short-form writing in general i would go with this - https://t.co/mUUAOUQZ2F which i have read 100s of times now, and everytime i come across it by accident i must sit & read again

— POM POMS EP OUT 9/28 HOLY HELL ITS FIIIIIRE (@fugazi420) September 14, 2018

This story is crazy as shit. https://t.co/RcbQfWnnUc

— jim (@jbradfield) November 7, 2015

this epic by @ShaunRaviv, about the troubled life of the guy who played the villain in 'Ghostbusters 2,' is amazing: https://t.co/swQvqVK7oR

— Finn Cohen (@finn_cohen) November 2, 2015

This is a wild, disturbing knockout of an article about (of all people) the dude in the painting in Ghostbusters 2: https://t.co/Gc2YAv02AI

— Benjamin Percy (@Benjamin_Percy) October 28, 2015

This story is nuts: Shooter, Passer, Dictator, Spy: The Lost, True Story Of The CIA’s Greatest Basketball Coach http://t.co/yLaovjd7FD

— Erin Valois (@evalois) September 14, 2015

An incredible true story, brilliantly written for Buzzfeed by @ShaunRaviv: The CIA's Greatest Basketball Coach http://t.co/vrTbvX9IxI

— joeharrod (@joeharrod) September 10, 2015

i just love sweeping, ambitious stories by skilled journalists who deftly lead the reader through context, time and complex issues.

read this weekend, 3 years after publication, and it's timeless. @ShaunRavivhttps://t.co/M8ZwMIKI2U

— Zanele Mji (@ZaneleMjiMedia) July 25, 2018

This is hellishly good: http://t.co/8QcOhxodNL @BRTable @ShaunRaviv

— Gretchen Gavett (@GretchenMarg) March 5, 2015

It's the end of the year, so here's the best thing I read in 2015: The Killers of Swaziland, by Shaun Raviv https://t.co/ofD5ZxI9CL

— Jason Patinkin (@JasonPatinkin) December 17, 2015

Longform’s Best of 2015: Our Top 10 articles, plus Most Clicked and our first Readers' Poll https://t.co/rTGSYCYAa3 pic.twitter.com/cxGBWcuLHE

— Longform (@longform) December 15, 2015

THAT WAS THE MOST BEAUTIFULL THING I HAVE EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE! https://t.co/rY9gG7pDO9

— SirLakitu (@SirLakitu) August 12, 2016

A perfect storm of seedy politicians and old fashioned hucksters, with a carpet-bagging biofuels slant:…https://t.co/CdISsZu1sO

— Paul Niznik (@paulniznik) June 13, 2017

Your article just may have given me the boost I needed for the rest of my intellectual life!
Exceptional subject, exceptionally well-written.

— Baker Stocking (@AkashicSurfer1) November 14, 2018

This is the best article on the future of science and artificial intelligence that I have ever read, and perhaps the best I ever will read: https://t.co/BNwJ5efVIO Thank you @ShaunRaviv for writing it.

— Eric Martin (@ericmartin128) November 15, 2018

This is freaking amazing!

And also (not really, but give me some poetic license), amazing phreaking!https://t.co/2c7BtvBt08

— Jim Campbell (@JustJimWillDo) January 4, 2019

I don't want to say I teared up but... I'm going to maybe cry. Fuck you. https://t.co/aA3pV1z5wv

— Curt Millar (@CurtMillar) August 12, 2016

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