An excerpt of Manjula Martin’s essay anthology, Scratch: Writers, Money, and the Art of Making a Living. Gould addresses one of the many double standards in publishing: women authors must be “nice,” accommodating and virtually boundary-less, while men authors suffer no consequences for being real–or even rude.
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Posted inCommentary, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
How Black Panther Asks Us to Examine Who We Are To One Another
Rahawa Haile considers how, by sliding between the real and unreal, Black Panther frees us to imagine the possibilities — and the limitations — of an Africa that does not yet exist.
Posted inEditor's Pick
1999 Was The Last Time Everything Was Fine
A personal essay nostalgically looking back at 1999, a buoyant time for the economy and publishing–before the bursting of the dot com bubble, a stock market crash, and the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessett Kennedy, and her sister.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
A Reading List for Thanksgiving
None of the following stories were written in 2016, but the themes of our contemporary American Thanksgiving traditions—family, identity, history—remain relevant.
Posted inArts & Culture, Unapologetic Women
The Gossip Columnist Who Became the News
Liz Smith looks back at her role in the Trump divorce.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak
Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
Politics as a Defense Against Heartbreak
Minda Honey assesses the deliberate choices and external factors affecting her dating life.
Posted inArts & Culture
Longreads Best of 2017: Under-Recognized Stories
Here are the best stories we thought deserved more attention this year.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Hellish Days in the City of Angels: Michelle Tea on the L.A. Places She Hit Rock Bottom
At Buzzfeed, sober writer Michelle Tea takes readers on a tour of some L.A. establishments where she partied hard in 2001, the year she says she was hitting rock bottom with her addictions.
Posted inBlog Post, Business & Tech
Two Ex-Googlers Want to Make A Lot of Viral Tweets
The internet is not pleased with start-up bros who want to “disrupt” bodegas.
