Reading List: Wread About Writing

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 Rumpus, The American Scholar, Bomblog, and the Poetry Foundation.

Share your favorite stories in the comments.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 23, 2013

College Longreads Pick of the Week: ‘The Shady Lady,’ by Danny Valdes, Dartmouth

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher and Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick is “The Shady Lady,” by Danny Valdes, and it comes from Dartmouth College, where professor and bestselling author Jeff Sharlet worked with his class to create 40 Towns, a new literary journalism project.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 20, 2013
Length: 14 minutes (3,669 words)

Reading List: 21 Outstanding Stories from Women’s Magazines and Websites

Are women’s magazines avoiding “serious journalism”? Guess it all depends on who’s deciding what’s serious.

The New Republic asks that question in a new article, and our biggest problem with this debate (and, to be honest, the term “longform journalism”) is that it can often run everything through a male-skewed filter of what counts as “serious journalism.” We’ve seen serious storytelling in both.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 17, 2013
Length: 1 minutes (374 words)

Reading List: Where the Witty Things Are

Picks from Emily Perper, a freelance editor and reporter currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps.

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Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 16, 2013

Reading List: Love in the Time of Context

Picks from Emily Perper, a freelance editor and reporter currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps.

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Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 9, 2013

Reading List: 6 Great Sci-Fi Stories About Robots

Hilary Armstrong is a literature student at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Longreads intern. She also happens to love science fiction, so this week, she put together a #longreads list about robots.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 5, 2013

College Longreads Pick of the Week: ‘Code Red: Struggling for Wellness in Computer Science,’ from Kyla Cheung at Columbia University

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher will be helping Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. This week’s pick was reported and written by Kyla Cheung at Columbia University for The Eye.

Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 4, 2013

Reading List: Double Consciousness and Religion

Picks from Emily Perper, a freelance editor and reporter currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps.

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Source: Longreads
Published: Jun 2, 2013

Reading List: 6 Stories for the Fantasy Newbie

Hilary Armstrong is a literature student at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Longreads intern. She recently shared six stories for the science-fiction newbie, so next up, she’s tackling fantasy.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 30, 2013
Length: 1 minutes (442 words)

College Longreads Pick of the Week: ‘Freefall Into Madness,’ from Students at Fresno State

Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher will be helping Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. The inaugural pick was reported and written by Fresno State journalists Sam LoProto, Damian Marquez, Angel Moreno, Jacob Rayburn, Brianna Vaccari, Liana Whitehead and their professor Mark Arax.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 28, 2013