For this week’s Longreads Member pick, we’re excited to share an excerpt from Sigrid Nunez’s memoir Sempre Susan, which comes recommended by Emily Gould, the proprietor of Emily Books, who writes: This memorable passage from Sigrid Nunez’s gemlike memoir of the year she spent under the influence of Susan Sontag begins with a description of a trip to […]
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Choire Sicha: Five Longreads from 2010: Boundary Issues
Choire Sicha is (of course) co-founder/editor of The Awl, which also happened to publish some of my favorite longreads of 2010. choire: In honor of the Longreads year-end fiesta of Things That People Have Read That Are Considered Long (And Also Worthy) from 2010, herewith, five things that stuck with me. But first, a note […]
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The Awl's Choire Sicha, Carrie Frye, Alex Balk: Our Top Longreads of 2011
(Left to right: Choire, Carrie, Alex) Because there are three of us, we trilaterally decided to go for 15. But it’s not really five each; that becomes complicated, too, but… well, anyway, no matter how you cut it, surely at least one of us hated some of these stories. Also to be fair, this list, […]
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Writer Emily Gould: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
Emily Gould is the author of And The Heart Says Whatever and the co-owner of Emily Books, and also she can’t stop blogging for some reason. *** 1. “Letter from Astana,” by Keith Gessen (New Yorker, sub. required) The New Yorker‘s “Letter From” essays, though they’re always entertaining and executed with finesse, can leave the […]
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Molly Lambert: My Top 13 Longreads of 2011
Molly Lambert is a writer covering pop culture at Grantland. (She’s also featured in our Top 10 Longreads of 2011) *** These are some Longreads I enjoyed this year: • “The Bell Jar At 40”: Emily Gould on Sylvia Plath (Poetry Foundation) • “The J in J. Crew”: Molly Young on Jenna Lyons (New York magazine) • […]
