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A Thereness Beneath the Thereness: A Jonathan Gold Reading List
Until his passing in late July, Jonathan Gold celebrated food for decades in publications such as LA Weekly and The Los Angeles Times.
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Harvey Weinstein’s Former Employees Reckon With What They Knew and What They Didn’t
Without naming names, Dana Goodyear recounts how former employees of Harvey Weinstein are feeling since more than four dozen women have come forward with allegations against him.
Posted inBlog Post, Media, Unapologetic Women
Hollywood and ‘Disaster Feminism’
The women of Hollywood are seizing this moment.
Posted inFood, Nonfiction, Reading List
The 2017 James Beard Award Winners: A Reading List
Congrats to all the winners of the 2017 James Beard awards.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2016: Under-Recognized Stories
We asked a few writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here, the best in under-recognized stories.
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The Rotten and the Sublime: A Reading List on Fermentation
Somewhere in the grey zone between science and magic, the controlled addition of bacteria to food transforms it — mostly to our delight. Here are five pieces exploring these transitions (and their products).
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5 Great Stories on the Lives of Poets
“If I knew where poems came from, I’d go there.”
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Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters
Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters The writer was in despair. For a year and a half, he had been trying to write a script that he owed to a studio, and had been unable to produce anything. Finally, he started seeing a therapist. The therapist, Barry Michels, told him to close his eyes […]
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Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters
Hollywood Shadows: A Cure for Blocked Screenwriters The writer was in despair. For a year and a half, he had been trying to write a script that he owed to a studio, and had been unable to produce anything. Finally, he started seeing a therapist. The therapist, Barry Michels, told him to close his eyes […]
