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So You Want to Be A #Longreads Superstar

2002 “Coolest Celeb Closet” Cribs Awards Winner Mariah Carey (click to enlarge)If you watch Cribs,  it’s easy to see how Bissinger might think being a best-selling author…
LENGTH: 2 minutes (707 words)

The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads of 2012

Getty (lower left) Grace in Broken Arrow Kiera Feldman, This Land How lust, greed, and denial corroded an Oklahoma megachurch and shattered the lives of its victims and their families. The Innocent…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 28, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (354 words)

The Man Who Saved Prospect Park

Illustration from William Hamilton Gibson’s My Studio Neighbors (1898) Certain places will always impose their own particular empire on their surroundings, sport their immemorial insignia in…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3454 words)
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Minor Cords

Nothing inspires rage more than the cage of Child Protective Services, which operates without explanation or instruction. I still have a vivid memory of being hauled through corridors by the…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2803 words)

LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS

OLIVER WANGon the Jeremy Lin phenomenon. Day 1, February 4th: Going into this night’s game, both the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets are sub.-500, their seasons already foundering in…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5660 words)

The Believer

“With writing, I don’t think it’s performing a character, really, if the character you’re performing is yourself. I don’t see that as playing a role. It’s just…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3767 words)

My Top 5 Longreads of 2011

Sady Doyle: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 Sady Doyle is a writer and the proprietor of Tiger Beatdown.  *** There is no slogan more misunderstood, or more widely abused, than “the personal…
AUTHOR:longreads
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2249 words)

The New Inquiry

To be clear, believing in Jesus does not make one an infant. But the way Generose is portrayed — saying outlandish things while our heroine squirms awkwardly — presents Generose as not…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1927 words)

The Daily Beast Picks for November 19, 2011

This Is Penn StateL. Jon Wetheim & David Epstein, Sports Illustrated Had Sandusky not been so brazen, had he simply restricted himself to the football facilities, there is little to suggest he…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 18, 2011
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