At the Very Beginning of the Great Alaska Earthquake

“Many people mistook the low growl of the churning earth for a nuclear bomb.” An excerpt from THIS IS CHANCE! 

Source: LitHub
Published: Mar 24, 2020
Length: 8 minutes (2,100 words)

Nearly a Million Children Left Behind in Venezuela as Parents Migrate

Seven years into an economic crisis, mothers and fathers have been forced to go abroad in search of work, leaving hundreds of thousands of children in the hands of relatives, friends — and sometimes, one another.

Published: Mar 24, 2020
Length: 7 minutes (1,900 words)

The Heat Reporter

What you see in the aftermath of California’s fires.

Published: Mar 25, 2020
Length: 14 minutes (3,690 words)

Dreams of Stone

Searching for paradise in Ethiopia’s rock churches

Published: Mar 23, 2020
Length: 23 minutes (5,933 words)

Sinéad O’Connor is Still in One Piece

“She tore up a picture of the pope. Then her life came apart. These days, she just wants to make music.”

Published: Mar 18, 2020
Length: 15 minutes (3,857 words)

As A Grocery Store Worker, I’m On The Frontline Of Coronavirus And I’m Overwhelmed

“I return to work because I’m just as freaked out as everyone else. I find comfort in routine, in seeing the same faces day after day. My grocery store job is the only facet of my life that hasn’t completely changed in the last two weeks. Without it, I wouldn’t recognize anything at all and would probably sooner collapse with a nervous breakdown.”

Source: HuffPost
Published: Mar 24, 2020
Length: 5 minutes (1,466 words)

What I Learned When My Husband Got Sick with Coronavirus

“You shouldn’t stay here,” he says, but he gets more frightened as night comes, dreading the long hours of fever and soaking sweats and shivering and terrible aches. “This thing grinds you like a mortar,” he says.

Published: Mar 24, 2020
Length: 12 minutes (3,227 words)

How Kinfolk Magazine Defined the Millennial Aesthetic…and Unraveled Behind the Scenes

The magazine that The New York Times called “the Martha Stewart Living of the Portland set” built its reputation with a simple clean look and an ethos about slowing down and reconnecting with people. Unfortunately, life was much messier.
Author: Lisa Abend
Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Mar 19, 2020
Length: 20 minutes (5,204 words)

Tall Tales With Dwight Yoakam

For GQ, Alex Pappademas attempts to have a conversation with 63-year-old Dwight Yoakam, whose frenetic and continuous musical connection making acts as the perfect defense against meaningful human connection.

Source: GQ
Published: Mar 17, 2020
Length: 12 minutes (3,169 words)

The Day the Coronavirus Came to Prison

“In the days before he went into lockdown, John J. Lennon sent this dispatch from Sing Sing, on how the maximum-security prison was preparing for the inevitable arrival of COVID-19.”

Source: Esquire
Published: Mar 19, 2020
Length: 6 minutes (1,514 words)