All through December, we’ll be featuring Longreads’ Best of 2015. To get you ready, here’s a list of every story that was chosen as No. 1 in our weekly Top 5 email.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week featuring David Carr, California Sunday, New York Review of Books, New Republic, and ESPN.
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How the NBA Failed Royce White
He was compared to basketball superstars like Charles Barkley and LeBron James. But without comprehensive mental health treatment, Royce White found himself fighting for a new cause.
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My So-Called Stalker (1999)
(Via David Carr’s Reddit Q&A) A woman recounts what it was like to be stalked by one man for years—and how police ignored her plea for help: “Ron left frequent answering-machine messages that had no real pattern. Sometimes they were weird, nonsensical treatises, accusatory and rambling, definitely creepy, but not exactly life-threatening. Certainly not enough […]
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The Kingdom and the Power of David Carr
This is one version of David Carr, which he endorses: a veteran of the alternative newsweekly scene, and the media-focused Web 1.0 craze; a former crack addict and single father on welfare who has written a memoir all about it without sparing himself, who tweets with abandon, moves comfortably among the paper’s enemies at dinners, […]
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Aaron Sorkin Interviews David Carr
“The robot part is that he moves his elbow and content comes out. While he’s chatting, he’s also tweeting and blogging—and, you know, I’ll think that’s cute, and then the next day he’ll be on the front page with a synthetic piece about the analytics of television or new media, which he also covers. If […]
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Media Has Become a Kind of Reverse Roach Motel …
And Other Thoughts From New York Times Columnist David Carr on the Pursuit of Truth … and What Happens Next
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My Top 10 Business #Longreads of 2010
My Top 10 Business #Longreads of 2010 Round Two with the excellent @BrainPicker. I tried to minimize repeats with this one—stories here from David Carr, Kathryn Schulz, Nicola Twilley, Mike Riggs, Felix Salmon, David Segal, Tony Hsieh, Paul Graham, James Surowiecki and Bryan Urstadt.
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NYT: Longreads: A Digital Renaissance for the Long-form?
NYT: Longreads: A Digital Renaissance for the Long-form? Thanks to David Carr and the NYT for this story, and thank you to everyone for their amazing year-end “Top 5 Longreads” lists. Mr. Carr also just helped me introduce #Longreads #Lists, so a bit more on that coming shortly.
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#Longreads #List: Share Your Reading Mixtapes
December was an incredible month for the Longreads community. Thank you to everyone who has shared, discovered, Instapaper’ed and Flipboarded your favorite longreads. From the daily #longreads recommendations to the year-end “Top 5 Longreads of 2010” lists, you’re all proving that the desire for in-depth storytelling, online and offline, is strong—and here to stay. Last […]
