He Could’ve Been a Colonel

The hamburgers at Ollie’s Trolley are among the best in the world. With all that flavor, why aren’t there Trolleys all over the South — all over the nation, even? Maybe the world wasn’t ready for a guy like Ollie Gleichenhaus.

Published: Jun 26, 2018
Length: 13 minutes (3,264 words)

Making Peace with Selective Reduction

When risks arise in her partner’s pregnancy with triplets, Amber Leventry discovers that letting go of one life doesn’t have to mean losing faith, or love.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 28, 2018
Length: 11 minutes (2,805 words)

La Otra

In this personal essay, Jaquira Díaz recalls having her world suddenly turned upside down after a woman and her daughter moved in next door.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 25, 2018
Length: 18 minutes (4,721 words)

Leafer Madness

Could kratom, a plant-based supplement signal the end of the opioid crisis?

Source: BuzzFeed
Published: Jun 25, 2018
Length: 22 minutes (5,594 words)

The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger

The fox-like marsupial carnivore known as the Tasmanian Tiger was declared extinct in 1936, but some Australians have dedicated their lives to proving it still lurks in the Tasmanian bush. Don’t compare it to bigfoot. Unlike bigfoot, the tiger was real.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Jun 25, 2018
Length: 26 minutes (6,626 words)

Rape at Rosie’s

When the bad guys at Rikers are the guards.

Published: Jun 26, 2018
Length: 21 minutes (5,290 words)

The Rock That Fell to Earth

How a meteorite hunter’s obsession took him from the mountains of Colorado to the Bundy Ranch to declaring his own sovereign homestead, and eventually landed him in jail.

Source: The Verge
Published: Jun 25, 2018
Length: 33 minutes (8,300 words)

A Compendium of Tides

“The spirits of place are the echoes of people, of events, of ideas which have become imprinted upon a location, for better or for worse.” Warren Ellis takes us to his, the Thames Estuary.

Published: Jun 26, 2018
Length: 18 minutes (4,595 words)

Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter

“What if the system created the very thing it was trying to prevent?”

Source: The Oregonian
Published: Jun 24, 2018
Length: 21 minutes (5,275 words)

Jonathan Franzen Is Fine With All of It

“Most of the people who have complaints with me aren’t reading me,” says Jonathan Franzen, but he’s a process guy. He doesn’t read anything by his readers. They could write the book on reading him, but he wouldn’t read it and neither would they.

Published: Jun 26, 2018
Length: 23 minutes (5,915 words)