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The Top 10 Longreads of 2012

9. The Semplica-Girl Diaries George Saunders | The New Yorker | October 8, 2012 | 35 minutes (8,979 words) A father uses his lottery winnings for an extravagant birthday party for his teenage…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (283 words)

4:52 on Christmas Morning

2267 Shippan Avenue, as photographed by a responding firefighter.  (Photo: Stamford Fire Department) Matt Badger believes that what happened happened for a reason. That his children were…
AUTHOR:Dan P. Lee
PUBLISHED: Dec. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (788 words)

The Fourth State of Matter

The collie wakes me up about three times a night, summoning me from a great distance as I row my boat through a dim, complicated dream. She’s on the shoreline, barking. Wake up. She’s…
PUBLISHED: June 24, 1996
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7194 words)

Capital New York

This week last January, New York magazine published "Travis the Menace," a 6,000-word feature by contributing editor Dan P. Lee.Here, Lee told the tragic story of Sandy Herold. She was the…
AUTHOR:joe Pompeo
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1318 words)

Reading List for 'Behind the Longreads' with New York Magazine

Reading List for ‘Behind the Longreads’ with New York Magazine Reminder: This is next Wednesday! “Behind the Longreads” at Housing Works in NYC with New York magazine’s…
AUTHOR:longreads

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week [19]

Mother Jones guest blogger Mark Armstrong is the founder of Longreads, a site devoted to uncovering the best long-form nonfiction articles available online. And what better time to curl…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1460 words)
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