This week’s picks from Emily includes stories from Rookie, Brain Pickings, The Millions, and The New York Times.
September 2013
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A Longreads Guest Pick: Sari Botton on ‘Not Weird About Brooklyn’
Sari is a writer and editor living in Rosendale, N.Y. She writes the Conversations With Writers Braver Than Me column on The Rumpus. An anthology she edited for Seal Press, Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, will be released Oct. 8. “My favorite longread this week is ‘Not Weird About […]
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We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better
New fiction from Dave Eggers, adapted from his new novel The Circle, about a woman hired to work for a social network: “Dan winced. ‘No, it’s not that. You handle your workload just fine. But we missed you at the Industrial Revolution party last Thursday night, which was a pretty crucial team-building event, centered on […]
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Friends Without Benefits
The writer talks to teenage girls and boys to get an understanding of the effect that social media and dating apps have had on teens and their views on sex: “‘The thing with social media is, if a guy doesn’t respond to you or doesn’t, like, stalk you back, then you’re gonna feel rejected,’ said […]
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Caught Up in the Cult Wars: Confessions of a New Religious Movement Researcher
Susan J. Palmer | University of Toronto Press | 2001 | 38 minutes (9,328 words) The below article comes recommended by Longreads contributing editor Julia Wick, and we’d like to thank the author, Susan J. Palmer, for allowing us to share it with the Longreads community.
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Caught Up in the Cult Wars: Confessions of a New Religious Movement Researcher
Palmer reflects on the difficulties studying NRMs (New Religious Movements)—not just how to get inside, but how to not be forced into taking sides or having one’s credibility questioned: “As a mature researcher, somewhat scarred from my forays into that embattled terrain known as the cult wars, I am now ready to make a confession. […]
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Easy Money
The writer on his experience being on the game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”: “Did I mention on my questionnaire that I could perform a serviceable impression of Chewbacca? Did I offer that up to them as proof of my willingness to give them whatever they wanted in exchange for a chance at […]
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Required Reading from Journalism Professors
Below, six syllabi from journalism professors on what you should be reading. * * * 1. Journalism 494: Pollner Seminar In Narrative Non-Fiction With Esquire’s Chris Jones (University of Montana) “The purpose of this course is to teach students how to write publishable magazine-length narrative non-fiction: In other words, my aim is to help you […]
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Reading List: Required Reading from Journalism Professors
Six syllabi from journalism professors on what you should be reading. Are you teaching a course? Share yours in the comments.
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Ramona Pierson Spent 18 Months in a Coma and Woke Up Blind. She’s Now a CEO in Silicon Valley
Pierson, nearly killed by a drunk driver, has recovered to become the head of a new tech company called Declara: “Over time, and more than 100 surgeries, Pierson’s body improved. She had procedures to fix her eye socket, nose, and teeth. ‘One of my doctors did Wilt Chamberlain’s nose,’ Pierson says. ‘My face seemed to […]