Reading List: The Producers
Matt Graves is the curator behind Buried Treasures, a new Flipboard feed (and Twitter account) dedicated to the best music storytelling on the web. Here are six of his picks on the topic of music producers, the often-overlooked architects of the music we hear and love.
The Best Civil Rights Stories
As the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington approaches next week (August 28), Longreads has teamed up with Al Jazeera America’s “America Tonight”to collect the best civil rights stories.
We want your help: Share your favorite stories below in the comments, and we’ll spotlight some of your picks next week. They can be historical texts, stories from the archives, or newer reporting and essays.
Reading List: Sex Work and Sex Workers
New reading list from Emily Perper featuring picks from Something Magical, The Daily Dot, NPR, and The Rumpus.
College Longreads Pick: ‘Gym Class Heroes’ by James Costanzo, Syracuse University
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick comes from James Costanzo, who wrote this story for Syracuse University’s Vertical Floor.
Playlist: 5 Podcast Episodes on the History of Hip-Hop
Gabrielle Gantz (@contextual_life) is the blogger behind The Contextual Life, a frequent longreader, and a fan of podcasts. Here are her picks from KCRW, WBUR, Jesse Thorn and more.
Reading List: 4 for Laughing
New story picks from Emily Perper, featuring Kill Screen, Videogum and The New Yorker.
College Longreads Pick: ‘Raising Trey’ by Everett Cook, University of Michigan
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick comes from Everett Cook, who wrote this story for the University of Michigan’s The Michigan Daily.
Longreads Member Pick: In Washington, D.C., Where ‘We’re All Obituaries Waiting to Happen’
This week’s Member Pick is from the new book by Mark Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and a writer who’s been featured on Longreads frequently in the past.
This Town, published by Penguin’s Blue Rider Press, is Leibovich’s insider tale of life inside the Beltway bubble of Washington, D.C., and how the social lives of political lifers, journalists and hangers-on complicate the truth about what really goes on in the capital. The prologue and first chapter, featured here for Longreads Members, take place at the funeral for NBC Meet the Press moderator Tim Russert.
Reading List: A Brief History of ‘It’ Girls
“It isn’t beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just ‘It’.”
—Rudyard Kipling
A new reading list from Julia Wick, a native Angeleno who writes about literature, Los Angeles, and cities. She is currently finishing an Urban Planning degree at USC.
Reading List: ‘What’s in an Ally?’
Picks from Emily Perper, a freelance editor and reporter who blogs about her favorite longreads at Diet Coker. This week’s picks include stories from New York magazine, The Toast, and Medium.