This article is written so floridly and weirdly, it's like trying to be the new yorker without meeting the new yorker's quality standards.
But it still kept me reading, so I guess it worked. But I feel dirty like after reading a buzzfeed article.
"in classic hominin style" -- I don't think that's a word. Does he mean "ad hominem"? That still doesn't actually make sense in context. Classic what now?
"she said something that has been loitering in my mind ever since, wanting my attention but not quite sure why or what it is doing there." Really? What?
"Poor Nick Mann, I think... To get some general sense of how unstable this man could turn out to be, I try to discover a bit more about him." -- how terribly disrespectful to these people you are interviewing and who's lives you are broadcasting to us.
But it still kept me reading, so I guess it worked. But I feel dirty like after reading a buzzfeed article.
"in classic hominin style" -- I don't think that's a word. Does he mean "ad hominem"? That still doesn't actually make sense in context. Classic what now?
"she said something that has been loitering in my mind ever since, wanting my attention but not quite sure why or what it is doing there." Really? What?
"Poor Nick Mann, I think... To get some general sense of how unstable this man could turn out to be, I try to discover a bit more about him." -- how terribly disrespectful to these people you are interviewing and who's lives you are broadcasting to us.