Breaking the Silence About Sexual Assault on Campus: Our College Pick

Our college pick of the week, from UCLA.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 7, 2014

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.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 6, 2014
Length: 12 minutes (3,064 words)

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.

Source: Longreads
Published: May 4, 2014

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.

Author: Editors
Source: Longreads
Published: May 1, 2014

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.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 30, 2014
Length: 21 minutes (5,289 words)

Taking the Long View on Sports Reporting: Our College Pick

Our latest college pick, from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 30, 2014

Reading List: Leslie Jamison, Author of “The Empathy Exams”

This week, Emily devotes her reading list to Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 27, 2014

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.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 21, 2014

Drug Life: A Reading List

This week’s reading list from Emily includes stories by Shane Morris, Malcolm Harris, and David Amsden.

Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 20, 2014

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.

Author: Dan Fagin
Source: Longreads
Published: Apr 15, 2014
Length: 8 minutes (2,153 words)