Breaking the Silence About Sexual Assault on Campus: Our College Pick
Our college pick of the week, from UCLA.
Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
For this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we’re excited to share the opening chapters of Grandma Gatewood’s Walk, the new book by Ben Montgomery about Emma Gatewood, the first woman to hike the entire Appalachian Trail alone—and who did so at the age of 67.
Working 9 to 5: A Reading List About the Way We Work
This week’s picks from Emily include stories from The Billfold, the Walker Art Center, The New Yorker’s Currency blog, and The New York Times.
The 2014 National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List
A collection of stories from Thursday night’s awards, including The New Yorker, Time and National Geographic.
Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx: A Love Story
This week’s Longreads Member Pick is “Alexander Woollcott and Harpo Marx: A Love Story,” by Ned Stuckey-French, originally published in 1999 in culturefront, the former magazine for the New York Council for the Humanities. It’s a story that takes a closer look at the dynamics of a friendship, and the roles we play in each other’s lives.
Taking the Long View on Sports Reporting: Our College Pick
Our latest college pick, from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Reading List: Leslie Jamison, Author of “The Empathy Exams”
This week, Emily devotes her reading list to Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams.
What Undergrads Talk About When They Talk About Money: Our College Pick
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. Here’s this week’s pick.
Drug Life: A Reading List
This week’s reading list from Emily includes stories by Shane Morris, Malcolm Harris, and David Amsden.
This Book Is Now a Pulitzer Prize Winner: An Excerpt from ‘Toms River’ by Dan Fagin
This year’s Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction was awarded yesterday to Dan Fagin, an NYU science journalism professor, for Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. According to the Pulitzer committee, Fagin’s book, which chronicles the effects of chemical waste dumping on a small New Jersey community, “deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a New Jersey seashore town’s cluster of childhood cancers linked to water and air pollution.” Thank you to Fagin and Bantam Books for allowing us to reprint the excerpt here.