“The goal is to get his 46-year-old organs to look and act like 18-year-old organs.”
Cheri Lucas Rowlands
Cheri has been an editor at Longreads since 2014.
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The Inside Job
“Robert Konashewych was a young police officer with expensive tastes, two girlfriends and a mountain of debt. Heinz Sommerfeld was recently deceased with a large unclaimed estate. Problem, meet solution.”
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What $500 Means to Zinida Moore
“In an experimental program, 5,000 Chicagoans received monthly cash payments from the city for a year, no strings attached. Here’s how the money changed one woman’s life — and how it didn’t.”
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Finding Hope in the Dark Power of Fungus
“Fungi can take on the mess and the junk, the waste and the abandoned, break it all down and transform toxin into life.”
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The Villa Where a Doctor Experimented on Children
“As a girl in Austria, Evy Mages was confined to a mysterious institution in Innsbruck. Decades later, she learned why.”
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Confessions of a Viral AI Writer
“Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I’m not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.”
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The Killing of Richard Oakes
“Oakes had sparked an iconic 1960s protest, the occupation of Alcatraz Island.”
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How to Get on Survivor: Behind the Scenes of Casting Season 45
“We’ve got all the intel—and audition videos—showing the disparate journeys five players took to make it onto the new season.”
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The Wild Quest to Create a Fake Indian Cricket League … That Was Just the Beginning
“Davda’s Molipur cricket league was not a one-off caper, it turns out. It was a single node in a network of at least dozens of Molipur-style scams worldwide.”