This Month in Books: ‘I Don’t Want To Become a Giant Insect!’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is a bodily affair.
Editor’s Roundtable: Better Than Working for a Symphony Orchestra (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The Baffler, The New York Times Magazine, and the Kenyon Review.
Editor’s Roundtable: Time Well Spent (Podcast) By Eva Voinigescu Longreads editors discuss stories in Jezebel, Governing, and The New Yorker.
Editor’s Roundtable: Antidotes to Loneliness (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and a collaboration between Texas Monthly and The Texas Tribune.
Editor’s Roundtable: One of the Most Important Pieces of Our Time, Plus Rats and French Cooking (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times Magazine, Eater, and Hakai Magazine.
This Month in Books: ‘The Minor Figure Yields to the Chorus’ By Dana Snitzky I’m reading this book right now called “The Manuscript Found in Saragossa.” It’s a recursive story-within-a-story sort of thing, and it’s giving me nightmares.
Editor’s Roundtable: Escape the Podcast By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Slate, The Cut, and The Goods by Vox.
Editor’s Roundtable: Smiles, Lies, and Promise (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Gay Magazine, The New Yorker, and Topic.
Editor’s Roundtable: Manufactured to Go Viral (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Pacific Standard, The Paris Review, and Topic.
On, In, or Near the Sea: A Book List By Alison Fields Summer’s almost over. Alison Fields curated a list of beach-based books to make you feel like you’re still breathing in that sweet sea air.
This Month In Books: ‘You Talk a Lot Don’t You?’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is pretty chatty for a topic that’s supposedly the pastime of introverts!
What Is Elizabeth Rush Reading? : Books on Antarctic Adventure, Ice, Motherhood By Dana Snitzky “I sometimes wonder if this continent of ice is begging for a different kind of story to be told about it.”
Editor’s Roundtable: All Things Being Unequal (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, Columbia Review of Journalism, The New York Times, and Pacific Standard.
Editor’s Roundtable: Just Put Some Eyes On There (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Grub Street, The New Yorker, Gay Magazine, and The Verge.
If I Made $4 a Word, This Article Would Be Worth $10,000 By Soraya Roberts Journalism’s one percent would rather make up a fake feud than address the reality of the industry’s pay disparity, which benefits them and no one else.
This Month In Books: ‘Look at the World, and Not at the Mirror.’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is about seeing the big picture.
Editor’s Roundtable: From WeEarth to The Aunt-o-Sphere (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in New York Magazine, The New York Times, The Outline, and CrimeReads.
Editor’s Roundtable: Shorthand, Looking Away, Getting It Wrong (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in The Cut, The New Yorker, and The California Sunday Magazine.
Editor’s Roundtable: Gossip, Dirt, and Reality (Podcast) By Longreads Longreads editors discuss stories in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, ESPN, Kotaku, and The Globe and Mail.
Editor’s Roundtable: Cities, And How They Used to be Good (Podcast) By Longreads This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The CT Mirror, and Engadget.
Editors Roundtable: 170 Million Pieces of Trash Orbiting the Earth and No One Knows How to Use an Apostrophe (Podcast) By Longreads This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in Outside Magazine, Backchannel (WIRED), and The New York Times: Styles.
‘Give It Up For My Sister’: Beyonce, Solange, and The History of Sibling Acts in Pop By Danielle Jackson Family dynasties are neither new nor newly influential in pop.
This Month In Books: ‘What Creates That Need To Leap?’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter has one foot out the door.
Editors Roundtable: Violence of Men, Money, and Space (Podcast) By Longreads Catherine Cusick, Kelly Stout, Ethan Chiel, and Aaron Gilbreath discuss stories by Wil S. Hylton, Josephine Livingstone, Jesse Barron, and Rivka Galchen.
Editors Roundtable: Alma Matters, Raisin Hell, and Upstairs Cocaine (Podcast) By Longreads This week, we’re discussing stories in The Cut, Vulture, The New York Times, Topic, and The Atavist.
We All Work for Facebook By Livia Gershon Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid?
Editors Thinking About Editing at the AWP Conference By Aaron Gilbreath The only way to work as an editor and a writer is to continue learning from other editors and writers.
This Month In Books: Botanize Your Past To Save the Future By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is overflowing with regional fiction, travel writing … and retro-botany.
‘Play Another Slow Jam, This Time Make It Sweet’ By Danielle Jackson The term “slow jam” became widely popular when a song performed by Midnight Star debuted in 1983.
