David Hill (@davehill77) lives in Brooklyn. His writing has appeared in McSweeney's and the New York Times. He writes sketch comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade theater.
Yesterday, former Indiana and Southern Mississippi guard Neil Reed died after heart complications at just 36 years old. Below, Reed's childhood friend...
In the first of a series of personal essays about gambling, David Hill looks back at a racetrack, a murder and the history of organized crime in Hot Springs, Arkansas.
