How One Magazine Shaped Investigative Journalism in America
Our latest story comes recommended by Ben Marks, senior editor for Collectors Weekly.
Reading List: Stories About Unlikeable People
This week’s picks from Emily include stories from The New Yorker, Rookie, Buzzfeed, and Salon.
‘There Is Nothing New in Wall Street’: A Stock Trader’s Life in the 1920s
Our latest Longreads First Chapter comes recommended by Michelle Legro:
Long before the “Wolf of Wall Street” Jordan Belfort made his first million or snorted his first line of cocaine, turn-of-the-century trader Jesse Livermore, the “Great Bear of Wall Street,” accumulated over $100 million short-selling stocks before the crash of 1929. His life and times were immortalized in 1923 by author Edwin Lefèvre in Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. The novel became a bible for those looking to get rich quick (though rarely succeeding), and Livermore’s advice became legendary. “There is nothing new in Wall Street. There can’t be because speculation is as old as the hills. Whatever happens in the stock market today has happened before and will happen again.”
Reading List: A Brief History of Epic Parties
No doubt you are on your way to one right now: an epic party, a night to end all nights. But will your epic party be as legendary as those thrown attended by Truman Capote, Cher Horowitz, Jay Gatsby, Jordan Belfort, Silvio Berlusconi, or the kids from Saturday Night Fever?
Reading List: If Christmas Were Forever
This week’s picks from Emily include stories from Buzzfeed, Tampa Bay Times, The New Republic, and Salon.
Longreads Best of 2013: The 10 Stories We Couldn’t Stop Thinking About
For four years now, the Longreads community has celebrated the best storytelling on the web. Thanks for all of your contributions, and special thanks to Longreads Members for supporting this service. We couldn’t keep going without your funding, so join us today.
Earlier this week we posted every No. 1 story from our weekly email this year, in addition to all of the outstanding picks from our Best of 2013 series. Here are 10 stories that we couldn’t stop thinking about.
See you in 2014.
Longreads Best of 2013: Here Is What Happens After You Write a New York Times Story About Lindsay Lohan
Stephen Rodrick (@stephenrodrick) is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, contributing editor for Men’s Journal and author of The Magical Stranger.
Longreads Best of 2013: 22 Outstanding Book Chapters We Featured This Year
This year we featured not only the best stories from the web, but also great chapters from new and classic books. Here’s a complete guide to every book chapter we featured this year, both for free and for Longreads Members
Longreads Best of 2013: Here Are All 49 of Our No. 1 Story Picks From This Year
Every week, Longreads sends out an email with our Top 5 story picks—so here it is, every single story that was chosen as No. 1 this year. If you like these, you can sign up to receive our free Top 5 email every Friday.
Happy holidays!
Reading List: A Little Help From My Friends
This week’s picks from Emily and her friends include stories from MIT Technology Review, Creative Time Reports, The Los Angeles Times, and InFocus.