It’s easy to get distracted while reading about Airbnb. First, the listings themselves range from luxurious to quaint, and if you have any sort of upcoming vacation planned … well, let’s say it’s a timesuck.
2015
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Reservation Confirmed: A Reading List About Airbnb
Five stories about Airbnb.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Reservation Confirmed: A Reading List About Airbnb
Five stories about Airbnb.
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Food Fight
Chefs in Dallas are unhappy with Leslie Brenner, the restaurant critic for The Dallas Morning News, and her newspaper’s star rating system. So they’ve stop cooperating with her.
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‘Chris Harrison Is One of the Smoothest Motherf—ers I’ve Ever Met’
A very funny, thoughtful profile of The Bachelor‘s longtime host, now divorced and pondering the meaning of relationships.
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What It Was Like to Cover Mario Cuomo as a Reporter for the New York Times
Four years of covering Cuomo as a reporter have put me at his side day after day, week after week, from the Soviet Union to Canada, from San Francisco to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We’ve drunk vodka together at backyard cookouts and in a Leningrad hotel. (Often after a few vodkas, and in other times […]
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Confessions of a College Athletics Fixer
How one former coach perpetuated a cheating scheme that benefited hundreds of college athletes.
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Inside a Chinese Test-Prep Factory
Larmer visits Maotanchang High School in eastern China’s Anhui province, a “cram school” where 20,000 students train round the clock for the gaokao, the country’s college-entrance exam.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week featuring, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Magazine, Jezebel, and The Awl.
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The Virologist
A profile of a 27-year-old entrepreneur whose speciality is creating clickbait websites.