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Joplin: One year later

Tornadoes are measured by the strength of the wind they produce. After a storm, meteorologists, weather researchers, and civil engineers will examine the field of damage and make a determination…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2966 words)

The Origin Of #Long Things

Posted a few minutes ago Lately, we like reading long things that are not books. A lot, it seems. There are apps for reading them: Instapaper, Read It Later, Readability. Platforms…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1008 words)

An Interview with Longform.org

by Nichole Faina In January 2012, the University of Pittsburgh’s Writing Program began a collaboration with the curatorial website, Longform.org, a website devoted to collecting the best of…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3556 words)

The Visionary

One day in June, Jaron Lanier was lounging barefoot in the living room of his house in the Berkeley hills. Stretching back on a worn sofa, he began musing about the connection between Representative…
PUBLISHED: July 11, 2011
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4987 words)

Longform for iPad 1.0.3 Update Available: Readability Archiving + New Magazines

The new update to Longform for iPad adds our most requested feature: archiving for articles in Readability lists.  App users can archive by swiping (in the list view) and tapping the archive…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (345 words)

Disarming Viktor Bout

ABSTRACT: A REPORTER AT LARGE about the arrest and trial of arms trafficker Viktor Bout. Describes Bout’s first major foray into the weapons business in 1995, when he transported weapons to…
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2012
LENGTH: 2 minutes (558 words)

Frank Lindh: America's barbaric treatment of my son John Walker Lindh

John Phillip Walker Lindh, my son, was raised a Roman Catholic, but converted to Islam when he was 16 years old. He has an older brother and a younger sister. John isscholarly and devout,…
PUBLISHED: July 10, 2011
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6451 words)

Don't Have a Cow, Man

From an exchange of emails in fall 2001 between Judd Apatow, the creator of the sitcoms Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared and a successful writer of Hollywood screenplays, and Mark Brazill, the creator of That '70s Show. Topher Grace is one of the stars of That '70s Show.
SOURCE:Harper's
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2002
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2023 words)

The HBO Auteur: David Simon

Coming off acclaim for "The Wire," David Simon takes his approach to New Orleans with "Treme."
PUBLISHED: March 17, 2010
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7536 words)
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