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.
This Month In Books: The Anxiety of No Influence By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter has a lot to say about pasts and futures, and how lineages stretch across time.
This Month In Books: ‘This Is Really Not What I Want To Be Reading’ By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is jam-packed with scammers, censors, and … other books.
The New Scabs: Stars Who Cross the Picket Line By Soraya Roberts “The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude,” wrote George Orwell in 1946, and it still stands.
The Lost Boys of #MeToo By Soraya Roberts When we hear “sexual abuse” we think “women and girls.” But Hollywood’s boy actors are suffering in a different way.
The Classroom Origins of Toxic Masculinity By Soraya Roberts It’s a relatively new term for a concept as old as time.
This Month In Books: ‘How Thick Was the Cane?’ and Other Questions About Things By Dana Snitzky This month’s books newsletter is all about things. As in stuff, objects. Because, as Heike Geissler says, “It’s because of all the things that are here… that you’re here in the first place.”
Eleven Books to Read in 2019 By Dana Snitzky We asked eleven authors to tell us about an amazing book that we might have missed in 2018.
Memory and the Lost Cause By Danielle Jackson An incomplete nostalgia still undergirds parts of American life.
Remembering Singer Nancy Wilson By Tom Maxwell The influential singer’s voice cut across genres and decades, and it will continue to.
