Janet Fitch | White Oleander, Little, Brown and Company | 1999 | 19 minutes (4,640 words) Our latest first chapter comes from Longreads contributing editor Julia Wick, who has chosen Janet Fitch’s 1999 novel White Oleander. If you want to recommend a First Chapter, let us know and we’ll feature you and your pick: hello@longreads.com.
September 2013
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First Chapters: ‘White Oleander,’ by Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch | White Oleander, Little, Brown and Company | 1999 | 19 minutes (4,640 words) Our latest first chapter comes from Longreads contributing editor Julia Wick, who has chosen Janet Fitch’s 1999 novel White Oleander. If you want to recommend a First Chapter, let us know and we’ll feature you and your pick: hello@longreads.com.
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How A Relationship Brought Me Halfway Around The World And Back Again
The writer on her experience moving halfway around the world for a relationship and a new life: “I said ‘yes’ to moving but I hadn’t really said “yes” to a location. Because Russell was an urban planner, with experience that was in high demand, he could work almost anywhere. He had been a Peace Corps […]
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First Chapters: ‘White Oleander,’ by Janet Fitch
This week we’re excited to introduce First Chapters, a new series on Longreads dedicated to sharing your favorite first chapters, nonfiction or fiction, past or present. Our first pick comes from Longreads contributing editor Julia Wick, who has chosen Janet Fitch’s 1999 novel White Oleander. If you want to recommend a First Chapter, let us […]
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Reading List: Fashion Week
Emily Perper is a word-writing human for hire. She blogs about her favorite longreads at Diet Coker. It’s Fashion Week at Longreads. From street sense to the ethics of cool, fashion is a fitting follow-up to last week’s “Believe in Your Selfie.” 1. “Girls on the Street.” (Katie Haegele, Utne Reader, September 2013) Forget Fashion […]
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Reading List: Fashion Week
Emily Perper is a word-writing human for hire. She blogs about her favorite longreads at Diet Coker. It’s Fashion Week at Longreads. From street sense to the ethics of cool, fashion is a fitting follow-up to last week’s “Believe in Your Selfie.” 1. “Girls on the Street.” (Katie Haegele, Utne Reader, September 2013) Forget Fashion […]
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The Flight from Dallas
Inside Air Force One moments after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963: “2:02 P.M. “Judge Hughes has been found. She is on her way. “In the passenger cabin, Stoughton, the White House photographer, approaches Liz Carpenter and Marie Fehmer. He is sweating and ashen. ‘You must go in and tell […]
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Reading List: Fashion Week
New reading list from Emily Perper featuring picks from Utne Reader, The New Inquiry, Refinery 29, and Newsweek.
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A Shit Writing Day
All of a writer’s fears, in one place. Ford reflects on writing out of a hole, and what keeps him from “going full-bore bananacakes” with his work: “I have dug a number of limbic trenches, mental pathways that lead to stress and anxiety. I have a mixed (but steadily improving) record on substances, especially food. […]
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Last Meals
Our relationships between food and death. A history of the last meal: “In America, where the death rows—like the prisons generally—are largely filled with men from the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder, last-meal requests are dominated by the country’s mass-market comfort foods: fries, soda, fried chicken, pie. Sprinkled in this mix is a lot […]