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Fiona Maazel recommends "PU-239" by Ken Kalfus

by Ken Kalfus Recommended by Fiona Maazel SOMEONE COMMITTED A SIMPLE ERROR that, according to the plant’s blueprints, should have been impossible, and a valve was left open, a pipe ruptured, a…
LENGTH: 31 minutes (7884 words)

Mary Gaitskill Recommends Saul Bellow

by Saul Bellow Recommended by Mary Gaitskill WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH GOING ON, more than you can bear, you may choose to assume that nothing in particular is happening, that your life is going round…
LENGTH: 50 minutes (12669 words)

Longreads Member Exclusive: 'Graveyards,' by Scott McClanahan

I didn't even want to go to the graveyard, but Ruby told me I had to. She was giving my uncle Stanley hell about it for weeks, until he finally said: "Oh shit, Mother. That old road up there is rough…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (281 words)

"The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis" by Karen Russell

by Karen Russell Recommended by Conjunctions THE SCARECROW THAT WE FOUND lashed to the pin oak in Friendship Park, New Jersey, was thousands of miles away from the yellow atolls of corn where you…
LENGTH: 62 minutes (15518 words)

Joshua Ferris Recommends A.R. Rea

by A.R. Rea Recommended by Joshua Ferris IT WAS A BRIGHT NIGHT, and the moon was shining on the snow, so it wasn’t hard to find her. He crossed the frozen creek and walked down to a little…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6929 words)

Joshua Ferris Recommends A.R. Rea

by A.R. Rea Recommended by Joshua Ferris IT WAS A BRIGHT NIGHT, and the moon was shining on the snow, so it wasn’t hard to find her. He crossed the frozen creek and walked down to a little…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6929 words)

The Top 10 Longreads of 2012

[Best of 2012] Thanks to everyone who has participated in the Longreads community this year, and to all of our guests who shared their favorite stories of 2012. The below list represents our editors' favorite stories of the year, for both nonfiction and fiction.

Longreads is edited by Mark Armstrong and Mike Dang, with Kjell Reigstad, Joyce King Thomas, Hakan Bakkalbasi, Jodi Ettenberg and Erika Kussmann.

Thanks to all the writers and publishers who create outstanding work.
SOURCE:Longreads
PUBLISHED: Dec. 28, 2012

Mary Gaitskill Recommends Saul Bellow, Part 1

by Saul Bellow Recommended by Mary Gaitskill Part 1 of 2 To my children and grandchildren WHEN THERE IS TOO MUCH GOING ON, more than you can bear, you may choose to assume that nothing in particular…
LENGTH: 26 minutes (6618 words)

"White Dialogues" by Bennett Sims

by Bennett Sims Recommended by Electric Literature LISTEN TO HER, BEREYTER SAYS, as together we watch the mute woman mouthing something on the screen. Earlier this semester, the fall of what is to be…
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8142 words)
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