How Love Is Lived in Paradise

The great short story writer Lee K. Abbott died this week. He influenced as many writers with his prose as he did with this approaching to teaching. Few of his stories appear online, so to honor Abbott’s creative life, the Kenyon Review republished one from their Autumn 1989 Issue. See you on the other side, Amigo.

Source: Kenyon Review
Published: May 1, 2019
Length: 26 minutes (6,539 words)

Canada’s New Far Right: A Trove of Private Chat Room Messages Reveals an Extremist Subculture

Emboldened by the rise of white nationalism in the US and abroad, Canada’s virulent collection of racists, homophobes, and anti-Semites strategize on and off-screen online about how to influence politics and disrupt this multicultural country.

Published: Apr 27, 2019
Length: 26 minutes (6,743 words)

The Day the Dinosaurs Died

A young unknown scientist may have found fossil remains dating from the day when an asteroid hit the earth and eventually wiped 99 percent of life from the planet. If it’s true, this is one of the most important scientific discoveries of the century. Other scientists have their doubts.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Mar 29, 2019
Length: 40 minutes (10,178 words)

She Draws Deeply Human Characters. They’re Just Animals.

“[A]t school, she pretended that she was a horse. This did not help integrate her into the mainstream of child society, but privately she expressed confidence in her choice.”

Published: Apr 29, 2019
Length: 8 minutes (2,137 words)

Nugrybauti

Getting lost while picking mushrooms in Lithuania is so common that it has its own word. The word also applies to stories that diverge into tangents, like the author’s father’s about the Vietnam War.

Author: Joel Mowdy
Published: Apr 24, 2019
Length: 8 minutes (2,170 words)

A Woman’s Work: The Inside Story

In the 4th installment of her illustrated series, “A Woman’s Work,” Carolita Johnson examines some of the inner workings of a woman’s body from puberty to menopause.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 26, 2019
Length: 20 minutes (5,178 words)

Breakdown Palace

“Kingsley Hall was an experiment that is considered imperfect by all who took part in it, deeply flawed; to some on the outside, it was wildly irresponsible, perhaps a failure.”

Author: Alex Mar
Source: Topic
Published: Apr 24, 2019
Length: 56 minutes (14,037 words)

The Truth About Dentistry

Fears, meet validation: those procedures you endured at the dentist may have been unnecessary.

Source: The Atlantic
Published: Apr 20, 2019
Length: 19 minutes (4,974 words)

At UNTUCKit, Clothes Make the Man, and the Man Needs Help

Do men just want a uniform, someone to dress them, or both?

Source: Jezebel
Published: Apr 24, 2019
Length: 7 minutes (1,893 words)

Farewell to Payless and its terrible, no good, very cheap, occasionally meaningful shoes

With Payless set to close all of its U.S. and Canada stores by the end of May, a former customer finds herself curiously missing a subpar, self-serve “ShoeSource” she hasn’t shopped at in years.

Source: The Outline
Published: Apr 23, 2019
Length: 9 minutes (2,251 words)