The Real Cost of Working in the House of Mouse

The employees spreading joy and maintaining animatronics at Disneyland can’t pay their basic bills.

Source: Topic
Published: Sep 28, 2018
Length: 25 minutes (6,409 words)

Lady Gaga Isn’t Done Shape-Shifting Yet

Rachel Syme profiles Lady Gaga upon the release of her new film, “A Star is Born.”

Published: Oct 3, 2018
Length: 19 minutes (4,971 words)

Raising a Black Boy Not to Be Afraid

“No matter how hard he worked in school, how many A’s he earned, or how kind he was, he had little influence over how strangers on the subway and on the streets thought of him.”

Source: Literary Hub
Published: Oct 3, 2018
Length: 15 minutes (3,836 words)

Out of the Woods

In a protected old-growth forest, a hiker finds a lost child, but she can’t protect him from the outside world he inhabits.

Published: Aug 30, 2018
Length: 9 minutes (2,414 words)

Spawning an Intervention

A group of scientists are trying to create coral babies to restore the world’s endangered reefs. Will it work?

Source: bioGraphic
Published: Oct 26, 2018
Length: 27 minutes (6,921 words)

The Movie Assassin

This personal essay by Sarah Miller has gone viral and divided Twitter. Those who love the piece — about Miller’s struggle in 1996 to get away with panning “The English Patient” for an alt weekly paper — appreciate her brutal honesty and her irreverence toward the Serious Film establishment.

Source: Popula
Published: Sep 30, 2018
Length: 22 minutes (5,578 words)

Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile

Cooper’s new film is ultimately about the way commerce can ruin art, which is why he won’t answer the personal questions Taffy Brodesser-Akner asked him. It makes this profile kinda meta, you know?

Published: Oct 27, 2018
Length: 20 minutes (5,144 words)

‘We Changed Culture’: An Oral History of Vibe Magazine

Conversations with key players in the history of Quincy Jones-founded Vibe Magazine.

Source: Billboard
Published: Sep 27, 2018
Length: 27 minutes (6,985 words)

Little Bits of Paper Everywhere: An Oral History of Snipehunt Magazine and Kathy Molloy

Between 1988 and 1997, a vast network of volunteers and freelance writers designed, published and distributed an independent culture magazine called Snipehunt in Portland, Oregon. It. Then it abruptly ended and its charistmatic editor disappeared.

Published: Sep 27, 2018
Length: 20 minutes (5,087 words)

A Visit to Opioid Country

In this personal essay, Aaron Thier contemplates the connections between privilege, addiction, and recovery.

Source: Longreads
Published: Oct 1, 2018
Length: 7 minutes (1,893 words)