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On our July 26, 2019 roundtable episode of the Longreads Podcast, Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what theyโ€™ve been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week, the editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.


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3:37 โ€œLosing The News.โ€ (Brent Cunningham, July 23, 2019, Pacific Standard)

13:05 โ€œThe Crane Wife.โ€ (CJ Hauser, July 16, 2019, The Paris Review)

23:59 โ€œThe Teens Who Play Dead to Save Lives.โ€ (Andy Wright, July 2019, Topic)

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