Interview: Former ‘Matilda’ Star Mara Wilson on Leaving Hollywood and Becoming a Writer

“It’s very hard to be a perfectionist growing up in the film world. It reinforces all of your worst fears about perfection and doing things right.”

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 26, 2014
Length: 15 minutes (3,798 words)

A Massacre in the Family

Allen investigates his great-great-grandfather’s role in the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre, in which 200 Native Americans were murdered.

Published: Nov 25, 2014
Length: 19 minutes (4,851 words)

“It is not for us to cool it.”

A conversation between James Baldwin and the editors of Esquire about race relations in the summer of 1968.

Source: Esquire
Published: Jul 4, 1971
Length: 33 minutes (8,321 words)

The Secret Life of a Crime Scene Cleaner

How one Australian woman found her niche cleaning up after murders, suicides and other traumatic situations.

Source: Narratively
Published: Nov 23, 2014
Length: 22 minutes (5,684 words)

Race in St. Louis: Bridging the Divide

A candid conversation about race in St. Louis.

Author: Staff
Published: Oct 17, 2014

The Strand’s Stand: How It Keeps Going in the Age of Amazon

A look behind the business of the Strand, an independent bookstore in New York City that was founded in 1927.

Published: Nov 23, 2014
Length: 8 minutes (2,156 words)

GM’s Hit and Run

How a lawyer, a mechanic and an engineer blew open the worst auto scandal in history.

Source: pandodaily.com
Published: Oct 18, 2014
Length: 30 minutes (7,722 words)

Five Stories About the Way We Sleep

Here are five pieces on different facets of sleep: a short story about sleepwalking, a dispatch from Gaza, a person who can’t help but sleep when he’s stressed, and more.

Source: Longreads
Published: Nov 23, 2014

A History of the Sexiest Man Alive

An in-depth history of People‘s “Sexiest Man Alive” issue.

Source: Slate
Published: Nov 18, 2014
Length: 20 minutes (5,235 words)

Have You Seen Havoc?

One owner’s $35,000 search for her lost dog.

Source: Washingtonian
Published: Nov 12, 2014
Length: 15 minutes (3,850 words)