Kevin Purdy is a freelance writer, and a frequent Longreader. Check out his site here. Not all written in 2011, but brought to my attention and saved in 2011: In Which There’s a Girl in New York City Who Calls Herself the Human Trampoline – This Recording Graceland is truly the one album I never […]
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[Not single-page] The case of the “Waffle House terrorists,” which included 73-year-old Fred Thomas and three other 60-something men charged with plotting to commit acts of terror—and an FBI informant previously arrested on charges of molestation: It is the central mystery of the case, one even more perplexing than the mystery of whether the old […]
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Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week: Outside Magazine, The New Republic, Esquire, Grantland, The New York Times Magazine, a fiction pick, plus a guest pick from Prospect Magazine’s David Wolf. Photo: moriza/Flickr
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Featured Longreader: Jaime Fuller, assistant web editor at The American Prospect. See her story picks from Washington Monthly, New York Review of Books, Esquire, plus more on her #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Writer Eva Holland. See her story picks from Vela Magazine, Outside magazine, Esquire, plus more on her #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Author Danyel Smith. See her story picks from Bloomberg News, The Atlantic, Esquire, plus more on her longreads page.
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"Why’s This So Good?" No. 33: Michael Paterniti's Painted Ghosts
Nieman Storyboard’s “Why’s This So Good” explores what makes classic narrative nonfiction stories worth reading. This week: Thomas Curwen takes a look at Michael Paterniti’s “The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy,” which was originally published in Esquire in July 2000. The opening sequence of “The Long Fall” is a mere 500 words and, in my […]
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One of the greatest athletes of all time faded into the background while his wife and daughters became reality TV stars: Fathers suffer a curse, and Bruce Jenner knows this curse better than most: The day you become a father, you stop being who you were. In the eyes of your children, your life began […]
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[Not single-page] A difficult life with a father remembered through his favorite words and phrases: He never once found comfortable shoes, and when he’d come home from the plant after a double overtime, the searing pain in his feet would have him whimpering like a child. Swornin’ to goodness! was his pain expression. Was it […]
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[Not single-page] The origins and consequences of the Obama administration’s focus on drone strikes to kill enemy combatants: Of course, the danger of the Lethal Presidency is that the precedent you establish is hardly ever the precedent you think you are establishing, and whenever you seem to be describing a program that is limited and […]
