Longform meets funny over ice cream

Kari Howard talks to David Wolman and Julian Smith and annotates their Epic magazine story, "The Cold War," on feuding ice cream vendors in Salem, Ore. Howard writes about how rarely longform journalism takes the kind of comic turn seen in that story: "Maybe it was so appealing because it reminded me of a favorite movie called 'Comfort and Joy,' which is like a Scottish version of this story — an offbeat comedy pitting one ice cream 'mafia' against another."

September 18, 2016

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