“A family trips and stumbles across 3,000 miles of Texas.”
Carolyn Wells
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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
“For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables.”
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My Life as a Sex Worker at a Nevada Brothel
“Men come to me for sex, yes. But in an age of profound loneliness and disconnection, they turn out to be looking for so much more.”
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I Want to Live Like Costco People
“Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco.”
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‘It’s Super Weird, Super Odd, Super Rare’: Meet The Twins Who Have Different Dads
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‘It’s super weird, super odd, super rare’: meet the twins who have different dads
When DNA test results shattered everything Lavinia and Michelle thought they knew about their family history, they also revealed something never before documented in the UK.”
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Secrets of the Bees: Revealing the Sneaky Genius of Nature’s Brightest Thinkers
“New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined.”
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I Mean, Why Shouldn’t We All Smoke Cigarettes Again?
“We quit our bad habits for the sake of our future selves. How naïve of us.”
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Both Sides of The Mirror
Introducing The Longreads Questionnaire, featuring Vauhini Vara.
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My Absolutely Chaotic Adventures at Sea During the Summer of 1984
“When we were offered jobs as deckhands, we jumped at the chance, naïve to the risks of the open sea.”