Category: Longreads News

Great writing moves us. It makes us feel good. It fills us with potential. Doesn’t everyone want to feel good and optimistic? Is this a mission you can get behind?

We need your help to keep this bus gassed up.

Personal narratives are powerful. Help us support writers and artists who have these stories to tell.

There’s a direct link between our readers’ commitment to Longreads and our ability to commit your favorite writers.

Longreads is pushing to achieve long-term sustainability, and reader support is more critical than ever.

Thanks to the incredible generosity of our readers, we received $30,391 in contributions and membership subscriptions.

Today we’re launching the 2018 Longreads Member Drive with the goal of raising $50,000 from readers by November 2.

A new essay and podcast series examines how attitudes toward age and aging have changed.

Thanks to all of our generous readers and supporters, who helped us raise more than $140,000 for our story fund.

“The reasons people migrate and the violence they suffer are the stories of our time.”

Today we’re launching the 2017 Longreads Member Drive with the goal of raising $25,000 from readers by November 16.

How our designer made Longreads even more readable.

What I’m looking for, what are the best ways to pitch, and what you can expect from working with me.

A note on our recent work, and some exciting announcements for what’s up next on Longreads.

Graff will cover border security and immigration, federal law enforcement, and the mechanics of how government works.

We’re pursuing undiscovered voices and original reporting. We’ll need your help to do it.

I’m quite proud of what this community has accomplished.

Longreads is proud and excited to announce that one of our writers, Meaghan O’Connell, has sold a book to Little, Brown.

I had many problems with Purity, Jonathan Franzen’s new novel. The book had me hooked and turning pages from the first. There’s plenty of intrigue–a murder; the mystery of the title character’s parentage; unfolding backstories that link assorted melodramatic subplots, far-flung over geography and time. But to a large degree I was racing through it […]

Save the date! On June 24, Longreads will be hosting a free night of storytelling at the Booksmith in San Francisco, featuring: Clara Jeffery (Mother Jones) Mat Honan (BuzzFeed) Susie Cagle (journalist & illustrator) Elizabeth Lopatto (The Verge) Emily Thelin (writer, Food & Wine) Dan Stone (Radio Silence) * * * Wednesday, June 24, 7:30 p.m. The Booksmith […]

April 17 marks six years since we started this community—growing from just a few readers to over a million, with people now sharing stories in dozens of different languages from hundreds of publishers. Christian Jørgensen put together a really nice Storify timeline of how the Twitter hashtag #longreads first evolved. This community also has grown […]

Since 2009, Longreads has thrived as a service and a community thanks to your direct financial support. Without Longreads Members’ contributions, it’s possible we would have had to shut down after just a couple years. Now, here we are in 2014, with a global community of more than half a million readers. In April, Longreads […]

This month, Longreads is celebrating its fifth anniversary. I started this service in April 2009, and it has grown into an incredible global community of readers, writers and publishers. Together, we helped create a thriving ecosystem for longform storytelling and helped reverse the myth that the Internet has shortened attention spans or diminished our appetite […]

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