The Stories of Notre Dame, as Told by Timber and Limestone By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘“Notre Dame will come out of this experience enriched,” she says. “And so will we.”’
Bowen Yang is Simply Awesome By Krista Stevens Highlight “My dad every now and then will toe that line and be like, You could try women!” says Bowen, laughing. “And I’m like…Don’t. It’s almost an endearing kind of homophobia, if such a thing exists.”
Teaching Writing and Breaking Rules By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Rules can ruin the kind of exciting language that makes literature rewarding, but some rules also enhance writing. It’s challenging to find the middle ground.
Moving Literary Life Off the Page By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight For one poet, conducting a satisfying literary life off-page required living life outside the classroom.
A Crying Public Shame By Soraya Roberts Feature Dialogue, Twitter-style: you get called out on social media. People pile on to you. Other people pile on to the pile-oners. Soon everyone’s anxious or angry or both, no one’s really talking (or listening), and a few tech CEOs are buying new houses in Jackson Hole.
“I miss my body when it was ferocious” The Transfiguration of Paul Curreri By Brendan Fitzgerald Feature For years, singer-songwriter Paul Curreri was a shouter of singular beauty. Then he went quiet — slowly, at first, then all of a sudden.
Life Advice from Jazz Genius Sonny Rollins By Krista Stevens Highlight “Live your life now in a positive way. Help people if you can. Don’t hurt people. That works perfectly for me, man.”
A Design Aesthetic That Lets You Succeed In a World That Doesn’t Care If You Fail By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Every era bears its aesthetic burden. This is ours.
“Follow Along,” or How to Learn Flamenco Guitar with a Tocaora By Krista Stevens Highlight “Before he died a few years later, my father told me there were almost no tocaoras — female flamenco guitarists — in the world. If I kept practicing, he said, I could be one of the first.”
8 Longreads by Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling By Catherine Cusick Reading List Eight must-read stories that investigate science, belief, and the human impulse to tell stories.
The People We Love to Hate on Social Media By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight What the people we envy online can tell us about ourselves.
Margery Kempe: Patron Saint of Writing Moms By Krista Stevens Highlight “Having children has simultaneously fried my brain and made it sharper and more focused.”
25 Movies and the Magazine Stories That Inspired Them By Catherine Cusick Reading List A selection of 25 successful article-to-film adaptations that made it all the way to the box office.
Miami: A Beginning By Jessica Lynne Feature Jessica Lynne remembers a long distance love affair that began in Miami and the Billie Holiday song that kept her company through the relationship’s transitions.
Welcome to Hive By Danielle Jackson Feature Hive is a new Longreads series about women and the music that has influenced them.
Apocalypse Now? Now? How About Now? By Krista Stevens Highlight “And yet I am also, in the darkest corners of my heart, a doomsday prepper myself.”
Novelist Charles Portis Was a True Original By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Every Portis fan has a different favorite passage from his novels, but they agree on one thing: no one wrote like Portis.
Wait, What? By Soraya Roberts Feature It’s surprising when stodgy institutions award progressive artists, and surprises, even good ones, are alarming — so we immediately burden the winners with the weight of symbolism.
Shelved: Jeff Buckley’s Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk By Tom Maxwell Feature The posthumous Buckley industry began with this problematic album, proof that the people who control a musician’s estate don’t always have his music in mind.
A Tribute to Lynn Cohen, 1933-2020 By Catherine Cusick Commentary New York character actress Lynn Cohen died on Valentine’s Day 2020, survived by an extended family of friends and collaborators.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s Exhilarating, Emotionally Intelligent Pop Music By rachelvoronacote Feature Although music often involves emotional expression, pop star Carly Rae Jepsen has built a career and a persona out of big, unguarded emotions, a range that could be called “too muchness,” which is just right for some of us.
Meet the 14-Year-Old Dancer Who Invented The Renegade By Mark Armstrong Highlight A ninth grader’s creation explodes on TikTok, without acknowledgement or credit.
Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.
What If This Is It: Will Huey Lewis Sing Again? By Krista Stevens Highlight ‘The music went away slowly and then all at once. So what if it never comes back? “I haven’t allowed myself to go there yet,” Huey says, worry in his voice.’
Regarding the Pain of Oprah By Soraya Roberts Feature She gets a mansion and she gets a boat and she gets a jet! And you get to suffer and then maybe pull yourself up by your bootstraps, if you’re lucky enough and bare enough of your private pain.
Why Amanda Fortini Won’t Soon Be Leaving Las Vegas By Krista Stevens Highlight “Las Vegas is a place about which people have ideas. They have thoughts and generalizations, takes and counter-takes, most of them detached from any genuine experience and uninformed by any concrete reality.”
Behind the Magic: The Story of Prince’s Super Bowl Halftime Show By Krista Stevens Highlight “No it’s not about me. It’s about the music, it’s about this moment.”
Be a Good Sport By Soraya Roberts Feature Competitive sports can mean professional and financial success — if they don’t compromise your mental health first. ‘Cheer’ and ‘Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez’ show how athletics can hurt as much as they can heal.
Please Don’t You Be My Neighbor By Krista Stevens Highlight “To watch those people vanish and be replaced by people who shine like glass, who cut through the sidewalks like knives but reflect nothing back, has been another scraping out. Am I still here? I don’t know anyone here anymore.”
Science Says Life is Better in Intentional Communities By Krista Stevens Highlight Intentional communities are a prophylactic against the plague of loneliness and a gateway to a meaningful life.
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