The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding By Susan Fekete Feature Mom would make excuses about not having cleaned the house. I knew they were lies. I knew her house was full.
The Truth About Writing Fiction From Your Life By Sari Botton Feature A conversation about writing novels that have roots in reality.
Hierarchy of Needs By Aaron Gilbreath Feature Angela Palm learns to find joy in a world filled with suffering.
Barbara Ehrenreich on Writing to Think By Krista Stevens Highlight Barbara Ehrenreich on thinking as an antidote to “the unknown and potentially menacing.”
Vanishing As a Way to Reclaim Your Life By Aaron Gilbreath Feature On the eve of her marriage, an adventurous young woman tests how free she really wants to be.
The Money His Father Left Behind, and the Life it Would Start By Michelle Legro Commentary When Alexander Chee’s father died at 43, he left behind a trust that would set the course of his son’s life.
Wallace Shawn’s Late Night By Aaron Gilbreath Feature The playwright has a lot to tell viewers about human nature and our depraved era. Too bad so few people have seen his plays.
Longreads Best of 2017: Essays By Longreads Reading List We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays.
On the Contentious Borders of the American South By Danielle Jackson Highlight Zandria F. Robinson narrates her coming of age Memphis while examining contemporary southernness.
Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace By Josh Roiland Feature Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
Teju Cole Delights in Sentence Fragments By Krista Stevens Highlight “For me it’s about recognizing that great art comes in all kinds of forms.”
Brit Bennett Reflects on Living the Past Year in “Trump Time” By Danielle Jackson Highlight How the whiplash-like event of Trump following the nation’s first black president has “compressed time.”
Kevin Young Is Ready to Engage the Public with Poetry By Danielle Jackson Highlight The new poetry editor of the New Yorker says that to find poetry, “you have to look in your backyard.”
An Interview with MacArthur ‘Genius’ Viet Thanh Nguyen By Catherine Cusick Feature 2017 MacArthur fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses questions of justice, diversity in literature, and empathy across cultures.
The Genius of the Playboy Interview By Matt Giles Commentary Dedicated research and hours of interviews crafted the gold-standard of pre-access celebrity journalism.
The End of ‘Rolling Stone’ As We Know It By Matt Giles Commentary Jann Wenner created a magazine that lasted for 50 years because he understood nostalgia sells.
The Mastery and Magic of Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah By Danielle Jackson Reading List With her profiles of Toni Morrison, Dave Chapelle, James Baldwin, and more, Ghansah is an unparalleled chronicler of black excellence.
Confronting Wealth and Class Privilege as a Black Professor at a White College By Danielle Jackson Commentary At Buzzfeed, Kiese Laymon tells the story of his early years teaching at an elite liberal arts college in New York.
It Takes a Village: A ‘Village Voice’ Reading List By Erin Blakemore Commentary The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.
Why Fiction Haunts Us: Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen on His Ghosts By Krista Stevens Highlight Pulitzer Prize winner Viet Thanh Nguyen talks about how ghosts and authors of fiction share a similar role in today’s culture.
Inside the Content Machine By Pam Mandel Highlight “…the viral is becoming more viral, and websites are mousetraps, and content the cheese,”
The 1923 Novel That Helps Us Understand Today’s Racial Climate By Danielle Jackson Commentary ‘Cane’ is a series of vignettes about life in rural Georgia told from the point of view of an ambivalently black teacher from the north.
Youth From Every Quarter By Longreads Feature A teacher at an elite boarding school confronts her own confused leap up the ladder of class privilege.
Why Quotas Still Don’t Work for Journalism By Danielle Tcholakian Commentary Quotas allow superiors to blame failure on subordinates and take credit for success.
The Best of City And Regional Magazines: A Reading List By Danielle Jackson Reading List These features show a rigorous approach to the truth, a convergence of the of the personal and political, and excellent writing.
The Tears of Denis Johnson By Longreads Feature The writer showed his students and friends how to remain an artist, even when one becomes a kind of cult figure.
Arundhati Roy Doesn’t Care What You Think By Erin Blakemore Commentary While critics were measuring her life as the length of time between novels, Arundhati Roy was out in the world, living it.
Forgotten Women Writers: A Reading List By Kate Gavino Reading List Kate Gavino shares five stories about forgotten women authors, from Anita Brookner to Nancy Mitford.
Travel Writing for Americans Who Stay Home By Pam Mandel Commentary An editor reflects on a career in travel writing, even as Americans travel less and are exposed to less diversity.
At McSorley’s: Unsorted Regulars, Misfits, Liars, Heroes, and Psychos By Krista Stevens Highlight Rafe Bartholomew discovers his father’s voice in the very place he thought was holding him back, McSorley’s Old Ale House
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