Casey N. Cep
The New Yorker
Princess Anne, MD, United States
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Past articles by Casey:
Zora Neale Hurston’s Story of a Former Slave Finally Comes to Print
Hurston spent years turning an account of the transatlantic slave trade into a book, Casey N. Cep writes. Then the manuscript languished for nearly nine decades. → Read More
The Indispensable Guide to Early American Murder
Casey N. Cep writes about Thomas McDade’s “Annals of Murder,” a meticulous bibliography of American crime writing. → Read More
Cabin on the Lake —
Hank Williams catalogs the shapes and sounds of loneliness.Loneliness is liquid. It fills whatever container it can: pouring across a night or any number o… → Read More
What Two Forgotten Pieces Tell Us About Harper Lee
Reading the elusive author’s profile of Truman Capote, from 1966, one longs to read her on everyone else she knew. → Read More
A Universal Heart
Strugill Simpson's new album is the work of an artist who cares more about his family than he does any audience. → Read More
Postscript: Harper Lee, 1926-2016
Lee’s mockingbird joins Keats’s nightingale and Poe’s raven in the literary aviary whose songs not only delight but endure. → Read More
The Night the Lights Went Out
No ballads are more timeless than ones about murder → Read More
The Country Bumpkin Circle of Life
I don’t drink, but if I did, then here’s what I’d say to every bartender in the county: “I’ll just have a glass of anything that’s cool.” That’s my favorite drink order, and also ... → Read More
Red Dirt Girls
We were lost, but not really lost. We were lost in the way that you can get lost with a GPS on your phone, which is to say we knew exactly where we were, even if we didn’t quite ... → Read More
Baptism by Song
Have you heard the good muse? → Read More
Religion Isn't Dead Yet
According to the latest Pew data, the number of adults who do not identify with a religious group grew from 36 million in 2007 to 56 million today. But past research indicates that many of these non-affiliated individuals have some form of belief system. → Read More
Even Jesus Thinks Your Heaven Travelogues Are a Little Out There
The went-to-heaven-and-back genre is more popular than ever, but Biblical scholar N.T. Wright's recent book argues that this cultural conception of heaven has little basis in scripture. → Read More
The Internet's Terms of Service
In Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection, Jacob Silverman provides a measured analysis of the Internet's first 25 years and a cautious look at its future. → Read More
Mystery in Monroeville
In “The Reverend,” Lee was going to tell the story of six murders in an Alabama town. She did research and reporting for years, but never published a word. → Read More
Harper Lee and the Mysteries of Monroeville - The New Yorker
In Harper Lee’s hometown of Monroeville, everyone from the postman to my hotel clerk had something to say about her new book. → Read More
The Poetry Resolution
In 2015, Casey N. Cep is attempting to surround herself with verse. → Read More
The Man Who Won't Let Go
He Stopped Loving Her Today” might well be George Jones’s most famous song, but I don’t think it was his best. Eighteen years before that one, he released my favorite: “She Thinks I Still Care.” The two songs ... → Read More
Understanding Money
In How to Speak Money, John Lanchester explains how the monied people talk about their mountains of cash. → Read More
Big Data for the Spirit - The New Yorker
SoulPulse attempts to quantify the soul, an unbodied version of what FitBit, the exercise-tracking device, has done for the body. → Read More
An App to Find Nemo
The F.W.C. hopes that this new app, in combination with educational outreach, will help to control the invasive lionfish population. → Read More