Clean Eating and Pure Loving: My Life as a Whole Foods Cashier

Certain jobs feel like dead ends, but the community and memories you build in them can sustain you the rest of your life.

Source: Catapult
Published: Sep 2, 2016
Length: 10 minutes (2,703 words)

The Golden Age of Squatting

A history of London’s modern squat movement and what it reveals about political activism and resistance to oppression.

Source: The Towner
Published: Sep 9, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3,129 words)

STAT

Is there a dietary treatment for multiple sclerosis? And if so, why is the medical establishment ignoring published academic research that started in the 1950s proving it?

Source: Longreads
Published: Sep 14, 2016
Length: 40 minutes (10,049 words)

How Two Producers of ‘Transparent’ Made Their Own Trans Lives More Visible

A profile of former couple Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst—producers of Amazon’s Transparent, who are transgender themselves—in which they discuss “Relationship,” the book-length photo essay they both shot and appear in, and the importance of having transgender people act not just as subjects, but as the authors of works on the topic.

Published: Sep 13, 2016
Length: 15 minutes (3,791 words)

Welcome to Camp Midlife Crisis!

Around one million adults went to camp last year. The author spends time at an adult sleep-away called Camp Grounded, which prohibits booze, phones, the internet, time-keeping devices and talking about work in order to give participants a “digital detox,” because only when we can step away from technology can we learn to reconnect with each other.

Source: GQ
Published: Aug 17, 2016
Length: 17 minutes (4,409 words)

Girlhood Gone: Notes from the New Nashville

After returning home to Nashville following many years away, Susannah Felts assesses the city’s changing face through the eyes of a native, and as a woman raised in the South.

Source: Longreads
Published: Sep 13, 2016
Length: 17 minutes (4,439 words)

Bob Timberg’s Scars

“Robert ‘Bob’ Timberg’s funeral was Sunday in Annapolis. He was 76 and the bravest man I knew.”

Source: Slate
Published: Sep 12, 2016
Length: 6 minutes (1,568 words)

Vote, Sing, Breathe

A night at the political opera seeing Appomattox, which depicts the end of the Civil War, the beginning of our era of systemic racism, and sings its social justice.

Published: Sep 8, 2016
Length: 12 minutes (3,130 words)

A Life in Google Maps

A series of musings on Google Maps, memory, place, time, and life’s ghosts.

Source: Catapult
Published: Sep 12, 2016
Length: 8 minutes (2,170 words)

The Last Last Summer: Donald Trump and the Fall of Atlantic City

“Trump, a man addicted to success, and—if his oration is any indication—a man with extremely limited reserves of self-control, can’t ever gamble, because he can’t ever lose. I’d bet that Trump is barely even familiar with the table rules, for the simple reason that he doesn’t have to be; all he has to know are the odds to know that he can’t beat them. Having owned the house, he’ll never tempt the house. All he can do is torch it. “

Source: n+1
Published: Sep 6, 2016
Length: 44 minutes (11,238 words)