The Realness of Billy Porter

Step aside, clipboard bitches! Billy Porter – actor, singer, inspiration – is owning the red carpet of life.

Source: The Cut
Published: May 1, 2019
Length: 8 minutes (2,109 words)

The Raisin Situation

“One man wanted to change the raisin industry for the better. He got more than he bargained for.”

Published: Apr 27, 2019
Length: 15 minutes (3,844 words)

Why Are Good Young Racehorses Ending Up As Meat 7,000 Miles Away?

Korean horse racing enthusiasts are buying promising young Amercian race horses and many of them are ending up in the slaughterhouse.

Source: Deadspin
Published: May 2, 2019
Length: 23 minutes (5,859 words)

Mt. Sopris: Symbol in the Sky

“Mt. Sopris is one of the most striking mountains in Colorado—and, for one writer, a connection to friends both living and gone.”

Source: 5280 Magazine
Published: Apr 26, 2019
Length: 7 minutes (1,894 words)

How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery

Jesse Barron goes to Huntsville, Alabama to tell a story of private equity, manufacturing, debt, and who ends up holding the bag.

Published: May 1, 2019
Length: 24 minutes (6,070 words)

Liberation: a Love Story (and a Reckoning)

In this collaboration with the non-profit TMI Project, Rebecca Wong integrates new information into her understanding and appreciation of her grandfather, and how he survived the Holocaust.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 2, 2019
Length: 8 minutes (2,187 words)

Our White Supremacy Problem

Devin Naar looks at racism and white supremacy that the Jewish community has internalized and passed down through a pecking order — a kind of colorism perpetrated on those Jews less proximal to whiteness, particularly browner-skinned Sephardic Jews.

Author: Devin Naar
Source: Jewish Currents
Published: Apr 29, 2019
Length: 24 minutes (6,105 words)

Species of Grief

In the wake of losing both her father and her dog in the space of six months, Meghan Daum muses on different experiences of loss, grief, time and aging.

Source: Medium
Published: May 1, 2019
Length: 8 minutes (2,115 words)

Hysterical! The Body that Bleeds

As she gleefully prepares to undergo a much-needed hysterectomy, Samantha Irby recalls the mess and agony of her menstrual cycle.

Source: Gay Magazine
Published: May 1, 2019
Length: 6 minutes (1,556 words)

The Summer I Became a Thief

When Sari Botton wasn’t receiving what she needed from her divorced parents, she took things into her own hands. She took coins from her annoying stepbrother’s money jar.

Source: Catapult
Published: Apr 30, 2019
Length: 10 minutes (2,740 words)