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  • Tony Rehagen

    Senior Editor

    After informative stints as a stock boy, convenience-store cashier, IT grunt, hotel bar musician, algebra tutor, library circulation worker, and newspaperman, Rehagen landed in the magazine writing business in 2005—and they haven’t fired him yet. For six and a half years, the Missouri native and University of Missouri School of Journalism grad wrote and edited longform stories for Indianapolis Monthly magazine in Indiana, before heading south in the summer of 2011 to do the same as Atlanta magazine’s senior editor. He lives near something called “The Perimeter” with his wife, Erin.

Stories from Camp

Posted on 4/30/2013 6:25:00 AM by Tony Rehagen
In 1993 Camp Twin Lakes opened on 500 wooded acres outside of Rutledge. Today the facility has thirty air-conditioned cabins, a medical lodge, a horse-riding ring, and a pool with a fifty-foot waterslide. Read More

Fauxpocalypse

Posted on 3/29/2013 9:00:00 AM by Tony Rehagen
We live in a world obsessed with its end. The past decade has given us a litany of Revelation-scale misery, or at least the threat of it: 9/11, Katrina, nuclear weapons in the hands of madmen (hello, Kim Jong-un), monster tornadoes, blazing meteors, relentless plagues, hellacious storms. Read More

My Brother's Keeper

Posted on 2/1/2013 8:00:00 AM by Tony Rehagen
It was a bright weekday in mid-September and the Cormier boys—thirty-one years old, identical twins, best friends, incorrigible malcontents—were coming home. Their sixty-two-year-old father looked out his living room window as a U-Haul rumbled into the gravel drive. Read More

The Crossing

Posted on 12/1/2012 8:00:00 AM by Tony Rehagen
The train that killed DeKai Amonrasi no longer exists. CSX Q612 out of New Orleans met its end at Tilford Rail Yard near Marietta Boulevard, a few miles west of Berkeley Heights on Atlanta’s west side. Read More

This Land Is My Land

Posted on 11/1/2012 9:27:00 AM by Tony Rehagen
Just before 10 a.m. on September 7, 2009, residents of Mill Creek heard gunshots. Some heard one shot; others as many as three. At the time it did not seem important. Read More

The Best Team You've Never Seen

Posted on 9/1/2012 8:00:00 AM by Tony Rehagen
The owners of the Atlanta Dream, the city’s five-year-old WNBA franchise, are wondering where everyone is. Read More

Eddie's Attic Turns Twenty

Posted on 5/1/2012 8:00:00 AM by Tony Rehagen
Shut up and listen. Read More

The Last Trawlers

Posted on 4/1/2012 8:00:00 AM by Tony Rehagen
Michael Boone can find the sea with his eyes closed. He peers into the black of 3 a.m. from the helm of the Little Man, hands on the pegs at ten and two, guiding the seventy-five-foot fiberglass trawler slowly down the narrow Darien River toward the Atlantic. Read More

Student Life

Posted on 11/1/2011 9:00:00 AM by Tony Rehagen
Devin Roach knows a shortcut to breakfast. The spiky-haired eighteen-year-old bounds into the budding morning from Armstrong Hall, a dour 1960s low-rise freshman dorm, and strides confidently across the empty courtyard before crossing the street and cutting through a nearby parking deck. Read More