May 2013
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Longreads Guest Pick: Elise Foley on 'The Girl Who...
Elise Foley is an immigration and politics reporter for The Huffington Post.
“My favorite longread this week was Carl Zimmer’s ‘The Girl Who Turned to Bone’ in the Atlantic, which is about a very rare disease that causes people to form a second skeleton. It reminded me, in a great way, of ‘The Hazards of Growing Up Painlessly’ in the New York Times last...
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articles read & loved no. 53
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KMA Sullivan writes about well-intentioned people perpetuating misogyny: “Women Are Bitches.”
I’ve got mixed feelings about Murakami’s assessment of his The Great Gatsby translation and its reception in Japan.
The Paris Review recommends fiction: “Bettering Myself” by Ottessa Moshfegh
The Meaning of White - albinism and a mother’s love
Emily Perper!
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Reading List: 6 Stories for the Science-Fiction...
Hilary Armstrong is a literature student at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Longreads intern. She also happens to love science fiction, so she put together a #longreads list for sci-fi newbies.
Have you heard? Science fiction is “in.” Cloud Atlas, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Oblivion—nerds at the movies, nerds everywhere. This is thrilling if you are familiar with the genre, but what if...
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Reading List: Brave New Internet
Emily Perper is a freelance editor and reporter, currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps.
1. “The Vice Guide to the World.” (Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker, 8 April 2013)
“My big thing was I want you to do stupid in a smart way and smart in a stupid way.” Vice pioneers methods of marketing, advertising and reporting while...
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Longreads Guest Pick: Emily Schultz on Roxane Gay...
Emily Schultz is the co-publisher of Joyland Magazine and the author of The Blondes, forthcoming from St. Martin’s-Thomas Dunne in 2014. She lives in Brooklyn.
“In writing about Benjamin Percy’s werewolf novel, Red Moon, Roxane Gay’s review transforms into a fascinating essay with bite. She sums up the challenge authors face when examining the militarization of everyday life since...
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Students, Professors: We Want Your Best #College...
Throughout May and June, a new generation of reporters, writers, editors, and essayists make their way out of school and into the professional world. They come bearing clips, work samples produced for class or during an internship. Hundreds of media outlets at colleges and universities across the country publish student work, and an equal number of professors, instructors, and advisors help...
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Our Longreads Member Pick: Someone Could Get Hurt...
For this week’s Member Pick, we’re thrilled to share the first chapter of Drew Magary’s new memoir on fatherhood, Someone Could Get Hurt (Gotham Books). Magary, who writes for Deadspin and GQ, has been featured on Longreads many times in the past, and he explained how his latest book came together:
I was in the middle of writing a second novel that would hopefully earn me a...
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Your Latest Fiction Picks: Lorrie Moore, Tor.com...
In case you’ve missed them, here’s a quick list of some of the most recent #longreads #fiction picks from the community: 1. “The Side Sleeper” (Emily Schultz, Taddle Creek)
RT @taddlecreek: “The Side Sleeper”: a longish short story by @manualofstyle (Emily Schultz). taddlecreekmag.com/the-side-sleep… #longreads #fiction
— Joyland Magazine...
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Longreads Guest Pick: Michael Macher on 'Putin's...
Michael is the associate publisher at The Awl network.
“Earlier this week, Vladislav Surkov—also known by his nickname, the ‘gray cardinal’—resigned (i.e. was fired) from his position as a leading cabinet official in Medvedev’s government. As a character, Surkov is endlessly fascinating. On one hand he’s a ruthless political operator whose genius maneuvers have...
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Reading List: Mother's Day
Emily Perper is a freelance editor and reporter, currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps.
With Mother’s Day on the horizon, I chose “mothers/relationship with moms” as the theme of my list this week:
1. My Mom (Mary H. K. Choi, Aeon, April 2013)
A deceptively simple title belies a gorgeous, funny, sometimes dark essay in which Choi...
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Longreads Guest Pick: BKLYNR's Favorite Brooklyn...
Thomas Rhiel and Raphael Pope-Sussman are the founding editors of BKLYNR, a new online publication that features in-depth journalism—including more than a few #longreads—about Brooklyn. Thomas’s pick: “Brooklyn: The Sane Alternative,” by Pete Hamill in New York magazine It’s 2013—three long years since New York magazine asked “What was the hipster?”—and yet...
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Our Longreads Member Pick: My Body Stopped...
For this week’s Member Pick, we’re excited to share “My Body Stopped Speaking to Me,” a personal story from GQ writer and National Magazine Award winner Andrew Corsello about a near-death experience. The piece was first published in GQ in 1995. Corsello explains:
I was circling the drain in the spring of 1995—convalescent, out of money, literally within days of quitting...
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Longreads Guest Pick: Pravesh Bhardwaj on Alice...
Today’s guest pick comes from frequent Longreads contributor Pravesh Bhardwaj:
“I am a filmmaker based in Mumbai. These days I am writing a screenplay, which might become my next film. I spend more time ‘trying to write’ than doing the real writing. So I have made a deal with myself: Read a piece of fiction I have not read before, and read it online so that I don’t run...
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articles read & loved no. 51
dietcoker:
Marin Cogan’s excellent profile of rising tennis star Sloane Stephens
The Dark Side of Audrey Hepburn
I Invited Homeless Addicts to my House for Thanksgiving Dinner (I’ve been reading through the profiles of addicts living in Hunts Point, Bronx, compiled by Chris Arnade.)
Amber chronicles coming to terms with her hair in Going Natural.
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My Top 5 #Longreads on the Business of Film, Music...
Mark Armstrong (that’s not him above) is the founder of Longreads, and editorial director for Pocket. This past week’s Steven Soderbergh speech on “The State of the Cinema” isn’t as big a downer for film lovers as these choice quotes might have you believe:
“Shouldn’t we be spending the time and resources alleviating suffering and helping other people...
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Longreads Guest Pick: Baxter Holmes on 'The...
Baxter covers the Celtics for The Boston Globe, which he joined in 2013 after spending three and a half years as a sports reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2009. He’s a proud Oklahoman from a no-stoplight town where humans are outnumbered by cow and buffalo:
“A nun. A super-secure nuclear-weapons facility. A break-in. Click-bait, all...
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Now on Newsstands: Modern Farmer
One of our favorite parts about running Longreads is getting to know all the excellent magazine, book and online publishers out there producing great storytelling. We thought it would be fun to profile them—starting today with Modern Farmer. We spoke with deputy editor Reyhan Harmanci about their inaugural issue, out now.
Publication: Modern Farmer (inaugural issue)
Founded: April 2013
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Behind the Longreads: Dan Zak on the Nun and the...
We asked Washington Post reporter Dan Zak how he stumbled upon “The Prophets of Oak Ridge.” Here’s his account:
“This story happened because a generous colleague, Dana Priest, pitched it downstairs to my area of the newsroom. She had finished a series on the country’s aging nuclear arsenal and a shorter news story on security lapses at the site in question, and...
April 2013
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Happy 10th Birthday, The Believer!
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, The Believer has just published a handful of classic stories for the first time on the web, and they were nice enough to share them with the Longreads community. Enjoy:
Eddie Vedder Interviewed by Carrie Brownstein (June 2004)
“Crimes Against the Reader” (Rick Moody, April 2005)
“Transmissions from Camp Trans” (Michelle Tea,...
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Longreads Guest Pick: Meaghan O'Connell on Ted...
Meaghan O’Connell is the editor-in-chief of meaghano.com: “I regard novel-writing with a heady combination of awe and dread, so when debut novelist Ted Thompson wrote about his book’s eight (eight!) year journey to completion last week, I opened it in a tab and walked away from my desk immediately. ‘The Evolution of a First Novel’ is as fascinating as it is...
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Our Longreads Member Pick: Watch Dog, by Kerri...
This week, we’re excited to share a Member Pick from Narratively, the New York-based (and Kickstarter-backed) storytelling site that launched last fall and has been featured on Longreads in the past. “Watch Dog,” by Kerri Anne Renzulli, will be published in a two weeks, and they were kind enough to make the story available early to Longreads Members. Renzulli, a journalist and...
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Celebrating Four Years of Longreads
Longreads just celebrated its fourth birthday, and it’s been a thrill to watch this community grow since we introduced this service and Twitter hashtag in 2009. Thank you to everyone who participates, whether it’s as a reader, a publisher, a writer—or all three. And thanks to the Longreads Members who have made it possible for us to keep going.
To celebrate four years,...
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Behind the Longreads: Antonia Crane on 'Yellow,'...
(photo by teejayfaust, Flickr)
This week’s Member Pick is “Yellow,” a story by Antonia Crane about the days following the death of her mother. The piece will be featured in Black Clock #17 this summer and is adapted from her forthcoming book Spent. We asked her to tell us how the story first came together: “‘Yellow’ actually began as a love letter to Cheryl...
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Longreads Guest Pick: Emily Keeler on 'To Err,...
Today’s guest pick comes from Emily M. Keeler, a writer, critic, and the editor of Little Brother Magazine. She recommends two stories, “To Err, Divine, so Improvise” by Kaitlin Fontana in Hazlitt and “Afterlife” by Chris Wallace in The Paris Review:
“This past week was one of several missteps; headlines and cover lines and tweets let us down even though we...
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Our Longreads Member Pick: Yellow, by Antonia...
This week’s Member Pick comes from Antonia Crane, the Los Angeles-based writer whose work for The Rumpus has been featured on Longreads in the past. We’re excited to feature “Yellow,” a story about her relationship with her mother, about stripping, and about loss. The piece will be published in Black Clock #17, due out this summer, and it’s adapted from her...
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Longreads Guest Pick: Christian Lorentzen on 'The...
Today’s guest pick comes from Christian Lorentzen, editor for the London Review of Books, who recommends “The Last White Election?” by Mike Davis in the New Left Review:
“Mike Davis’s essay is the most thorough analysis I’ve seen of the 2012 election and what it portends for the future. Written from outside the Washington consensusphere, it’s free of...
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Our Longreads Member Pick: Symmetrical Universe,...
This week’s Member Pick is “Symmetrical Universe,” an essay by physicist Alan Lightman, published in the latest issue of Orion magazine. In it, Lightman explores the wonder of nature and the principles that guide its design—helping to answer questions like why a honeycomb is a hexagon, or why human-created art embraces asymmetry.
Lightman is a professor at the Massachusetts...
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