Longreads Member Exclusive: The Faithful Executioner (Excerpt), by Joel F. Harrington
For this week’s Longreads Member Pick (sign up here to receive it), we’re excited to share an excerpt from The Faithful Executioner, a book by Joel F. Harrington, Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, published this year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
College Longreads Pick: ‘Magazine Junkies,’ by Nolan Feeney, Northwestern
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick comes from Nolan Feeney of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern.
Playlist: 5 Pioneering Computer Demos, featuring MIT, Stanford and Xerox
Last week we lost a pioneer of early computing, Doug Engelbart, and Tom Foremski has an excellent short backstory about the inventor of the mouse. It was Engelbart’s 1968 demo of computer graphical user interfaces that inspired everything we now use today—yet despite his many accomplishments Engelbart struggled in later years to get attention or funding for his work.
Reading List: Sunrise, Sunset
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 Christianity Today, The Rumpus, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Rookie.
Viewing and Reading List: The Wisdom of Mr. Rogers
Last week, the below YouTube video resurfaced on Twitter to remind me about everything I loved, and still love, about Mr. Rogers. It’s a clip from the 1997 Daytime Emmys, where Fred McFeely Rogers accepted a Lifetime Achievement Award:
College Longreads Pick: ‘The Other Redskins,’ by Kelyn Soong, University of Maryland
Last February, a Washington Redskins executives said on a team talk show that 70 different high schools across the country share the NFL franchise’s controversial name. University of Maryland journalism graduate student Kelyn Soong did a little fact checking.
Reading List: Summer Camp
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 Yorker, Autostraddle, Rookie, and The Believer.
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College Longreads Pick of the Week: ‘When NCAA Schools Abandon Their Injured Athletes,’ by Meghan Walsh, UC Berkeley
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher and Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick is “When NCAA Schools Abandon Their Injured Athletes,” by Meghan Walsh, who is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Journalism School.
Reading List: 18 Deep Interviews with Great Writers
Kevin Smokler is the author of Practical Classics: 50 Reasons to Reread 50 Books you Haven’t Touched Since High School, an essay collection on the year he spent rereading 50 canonical texts from high school English class as a 39-year-old adult:
“Out of everything shared in the #Longreads community, I particularly love the interviews. I even created my own hashtag (#deepinterviews) and you can find my most recent picks here.
“And when it comes to authors, a great interview can completely reframe a book that you’ve read a thousand times, or give you the onramp into an writer’s work you haven’t yet experienced. Here are five of my favorite sources and recent discoveries for outstanding author interviews.”