College Longreads Pick: ‘The Media Diet’ by Stephanie Maris, Ryerson University

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick comes from Stephanie Maris, who wrote this story for Ryerson University’s Ryerson Review of Journalism.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 30, 2013

Reading List: One in Seven Billion

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 the The Tampa Bay Times, Columbia Journalism Review, Andrew Yellis, and Vela Magazine.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 28, 2013

Reading List: 5 Great Stories on the Lives of Poets

Julia Wick is a native Angeleno who writes about literature, Los Angeles, and cities. She is currently finishing an Urban Planning degree at USC. Read her picks from Tablet Magazine, The New Yorker, and more.

Author: Julia Wick
Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 25, 2013

Video Pick: BBC Documentary on the Early Days of Queen and Freddie Mercury

Our video pick of the day, from 2011.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 22, 2013

Reading List: A Bizarre Institution

Picks from Emily Perper, a freelance editor and reporter currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps. This week’s picks include stories from the The Rumpus, Tampa Bay Times, Benjamin Carlson, and The New York Times.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 21, 2013

Video Pick: The Journey of Transgender Rocker Laura Jane Grace

If you’ve been following Longreads for a while, you may have seen this excellent Rolling Stone story from last year by Josh Eells, “The Secret Life of Transgender Rocker Tom Gabel”, about Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace’s transition.

This MTV House of Style short reveals more about her life, and the small things she’s discovered with regard to clothing, makeup and style. And as Grace notes at the end of the clip, “A lot of tips I picked up were from other trans women on the Internet… When I was 14 years old if I was watching House of Style watching a transsexual being interviewed and talking about that, it would have completely changed my life. I would have felt saved.”

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 20, 2013

College Longreads Pick: ‘Silenced Voices’ by Tyler Jett, University of Florida

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick comes from Tyler Jett, who wrote this story for the University of Florida’s Independent Florida Alligator.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 19, 2013

Video Pick: The Detroit Bus Company

A mini-documentary on one resident who took matters into his own hands after the city killed its light-rail plans. Plus: Detroit stories from the Longreads archive, from Mother Jones, GQ, Los Angeles Review of Books and Guernica.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 18, 2013

Playlist: Richard Feynman and ‘The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out’

“How foolish they are to try to make something.” Here’s the classic 1981 BBC interview highlighting the work of theoretical physicist Richard Feynman, “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.” You can also read Feynman’s book of the same name.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 15, 2013

Reading List: Identity

Picks from Emily Perper, a freelance editor and reporter currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps. This week’s picks include stories from the New Statesman, Oprah Magazine, Rookie, and The Rumpus.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jul 14, 2013