Here are four pieces exploring different approaches to space and home—from living on wheels to escaping the grid.
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Reading List: Longreads and This Land Press at Housing Works
To get you ready for the big night, we’re thrilled to share a reading list of stories and books from the event’s featured storytellers.
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For a Respected Prosecutor, An Unpardonable Failure
Evidence of a convicted murderer’s possible innocence sat buried in a case file for more than two decades. Now, a prosecutor in Brooklyn will have to answer for the mistake. On the afternoon of July 18, 1990, James Leeper, a newly minted homicide prosecutor in Brooklyn, had to make a challenging closing argument. The man […]
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Mr. and Mrs. B
When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.
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Love, Identity, and Genderqueer Family Making
An excerpt from Maggie Nelson’s ‘The Argonauts’.
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My Lower East Side
A young transplant is drawn to the lively and fast-changing New York neighborhood a great-great-grandfather left behind. Cringe if you want, but we wouldn’t have been the first to turn a shiva into an open house. We’d all like to believe that our legacies are larger than a rent-controlled apartment, but this is New York, […]
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Kendrick Lamar, Hip-Hop’s Newest Old-School Star
The young M.C. is on a quest to become the best rapper in the world. ‘Everybody just wants to have fun, be with the scene,” Kendrick Lamar said when we met in his cramped quarters inside the Barclays Center in Brooklyn last fall. “Certain people get backstage, people that you would never expect. . . […]
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The Magnolia Bakery Bouncer Who Hated Your Guts
“Sometimes people act like children,” my boss told me the first day she designated me the cupcake bouncer. “So you have to treat them like children.” That was the motto of Magnolia when I worked there. Nobody cared about their job; I was one of the four people I knew who worked there and had […]
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Common Core, in 9-Year-Old Eyes
A fourth grader at Public School 397 in Brooklyn struggles as he prepares for the exams aligned with the Common Core standards. Ms. Alcindor did not know what to do about his academic difficulties. Her English was too limited to be of much help with homework, and she had never heard of the Common Core. […]
