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Ghosts of the Rio Grande

The path across the border is littered with bodies. Bodies old and bodies young. Bodies known and bodies unknown. Bodies hidden, bodies buried, bodies lost, and bodies found. The stories of the dead…
PUBLISHED: June 10, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6134 words)

Man of the Future

On July 8, 2000, a man was loaded into an ambulance, packed in with dozens of Ziploc bags of ice cubes, and rushed onto the long flight from New York City to Scottsdale, Arizona. Several hours…
AUTHOR:ALEX MAR
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4635 words)

Top 5 Longreads of the Week

4. The Luckiest Village in the World Michael Paterniti | GQ | May 6, 2013 | 26 minutes (6,701 words) What happened when the village of Sodeto won the largest lottery in the history of Spain:"Ana, the…

Legends Never Die

Archival photos courtesy Gunars Elmuts; all other photos by Jonathan Weiskopf August 1990, St. Marks Place. Priscilla Forsyth, one month shy of her fourteenth birthday and just home from summer…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6918 words)

Happy 10th Birthday, The Believer!

longreads: 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…

WHY I WRITE by Barry Hannah

From issue no. 20. Art by Ernesto Artillo I always experience a mild depression whenever I type up what I have written. This act seems redundant. The work has already been done. I adore the praise of…
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2013
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3523 words)

When the Spec Script was king

Once derided as “schmucks with Underwoods,” screenwriters saw their stock soar to seven-figure heights with the advent of the frenzied “spec”-script market. That bubble burst in 2008, but will the…
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2013
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4733 words)
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Marrying Up

I married a man more than twice my size. He terrified me. Making love felt like getting run over. I was pancaked like in cartoons. Image from Flickr via Steve Wilson Just before the world got bad, I…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2510 words)

GOING TO THE TIGERS

One day back in graduate school my advisor, a savvy and successful novelist whose books meant a lot to me and whom I had just traveled three thousand miles to come work with, called me into his…
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5966 words)
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