Episodes 32
Avg. Duration 29m
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Since Apr 2021
Latest Episode Apr 2025

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Immersive true stories, narrative non-fiction and tales inspired by true events. Written by award-winning journalists and storytellers. This is Paperless, an audio magazine from Vespucci.

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I Can't Come Back - narrated by Emilia Clarke

Apr 30, 2025 32m

In a case that stunned the FBI, a linguist assigned to a high-profile terrorism case disappeared—only to resurface behind enemy lines, married to her target.  WRITTEN BY: MICHAEL LAPOINTEREPORTED BY:…

Afterword: The Beanie Baby Heist of '97

Mar 05, 2024 9m

A conversation with journalist Serena Coady, author of THE BEANIE BABY BANDIT '97.HOST: MICHAEL LAPOINTEEDITING: THOMAS CURRYMUSIC, SCORING & SOUND-DESIGN: NATALIA RODRIGUEZ Hosted on Acast. See…

The Beanie Baby Heist of '97

Mar 05, 2024 36m

It's Chicago in the summer of '97, and criminal defense attorney Kathleen Zellner (of Making a Murderer fame) is feeling worn out. After once defending a serial killer, she promised herself never to…

Afterword: The Mockbuster

Oct 17, 2023 8m

A conversation with journalist Shaun Raviv, author of THE MOCKBUSTER. HOST: MICHAEL LAPOINTEEDITING: THOMAS CURRYMUSIC, SCORING & SOUND-DESIGN: NATALIA RODRIGUEZ Hosted on Acast. See…

The Mockbuster

Oct 13, 2023 30m

When small-time money counterfeiter Edward L. Montoro nearly dies in a plane crash, he decides to reinvent himself as a filmmaker. It's the late 1970s, the dawn of the age of the blockbuster, and…

S1E28 Afterword: The Way We're Built

Jul 20, 2023 13m

A conversation with journalist Alex Mayyasi, author of The Way We're Built. HOST: MICHAEL LAPOINTEEDITING: THOMAS CURRYMUSIC, SCORING & SOUND-DESIGN: NATALIA RODRIGUEZ Hosted on Acast. See…

S1E27 The Way We're Built

Jul 20, 2023 35m

Facing hard times in the early 1990s, Subaru of America is trying to understand who exactly buys their sturdy but drab brand of cars. That's when one marketing executive notices a peculiar niche in…

Afterword: The Badir Brothers

Jun 01, 2023 13m

A conversation with journalist Yochai Maital author of "The Badir Brothers".HOST: MICHAEL LAPOINTEJOURNALIST: YOCHAI MAITALAUDIO: NATALIA RODRIGUEZ FORD Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…

The Badir Brothers

Jun 01, 2023 46m

In a small Israeli village in the 1980s, three Arab brothers are born blind. When a payphone is installed at the end of the block, the brothers discover they can use their supersensitive hearing to…

S1E24 Afterword: Blinkers

May 04, 2023 10m

A conversation about fakes, hustlers, and how to rip off the Grateful Dead with Harmon Leon, author of “Blinkers. Host: Michael LaPointeJournalist: Harmon LeonAudio: Natalia Rodriguez Ford Hosted on…

S1E23 Blinkers

May 04, 2023 32m

Teenage hustler Conor MacKay makes his living selling counterfeit tickets—or blinkers—at concerts and sporting events across the United States. It’s the early 1990s, the golden age of the blinker…

S1E22 The Starlet Bandits: Part 2

Apr 10, 2023 23m

It's Los Angeles in the mid-2000s and Nina is chasing the LA dream. She falls into sex work and gets caught up in her boyfriend/pimp's latest scheme: robbing banks. A disparate group of sex workers…

S1E22 The Starlet Bandits: Part 1

Apr 10, 2023 22m

It's Los Angeles in the mid-2000s and Nina is chasing the LA dream. She falls into sex work and gets caught up in her boyfriend/pimp's latest scheme: robbing banks. A disparate group of sex workers…

S1E20 Sonya Golden Hand

Feb 02, 2023 38m

When the great Russian writer Anton Chekov visits the penal colony on the remote island of Sakhalin in 1890, he is astonished to learn that they’re holding a famous prisoner—Sonya Golden Hand. He…

S1E19 Anthony's Room

Oct 07, 2022 40m

A woman grapples with the mysterious murder of her husband in their Denver home. All the doors were locked from inside, there is no sign of break-in, but her husband lies there, stabbed to death. The…

S1E18 Becoming Maeve

Sep 08, 2022 30m

For Maeve DuVally, coming out as transgender in a corporate America was a journey of self-discovery that required her to hit rock bottom before she came out on top. This is her story.Journalist:…

S1E17 Joy Boy

Mar 04, 2022 35m

Narrated by Steve Buscemi, this is the story of Gosnell Duncan and the silicone dildo. After suffering a work-related accident, Caribbean-born Gosnell Duncan was paralyzed from the waist down. An…

S1E16 The Swingin' A's

Feb 01, 2022 27m

The Oakland A's of the early 1970s were the most iconoclastic team in baseball history. Never before had a club so collectively traumatized baseball's establishment with its eccentric behavior and…

S1E15 Electric Prisoner

Jan 20, 2022 43m

Inspired by the life and work of Leon Theremin, a Russian inventor whose most famous invention was the Theremin –– an instrument that produces otherworldly, haunting music, and which is played…

S1E14 The Joke

Dec 07, 2021 24m

Based on the life of Susanna Madora Salter. Narrated by Elle Fanning. Argonia, Kansas, 1887. Susanna Salter is baking bread when there’s a knock at the door. She learns she’s been nominated for the…

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