Here is what we know about the death of Sammy Wanjiru: It happened late in the early hours of May 15 at his posh home in Nyahururu, a Rift Valley town about 100 miles from Nairobi. Sammy fell from a second-story balcony — a drop of about 16 feet — and landed on the pavement […]
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Featured Longreader: Pushcart Prize winner Elliott Holt. See her story picks from The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Grantland and more on her longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: RJ Young, sportswriter. See his story picks from Grantland, Slate.com, McSweeney’s and more on his #Longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Todd Olmstead, grad student at NYU’s Studio 20, and community intern at Mashable. See his story picks from GQ, Grantland and more on his #longreads page.
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As I read, something quite unexpected occurred, an “aha” moment in the quiet of my kitchen, with the dog asleep on the floor and coffee cooling in a cup. I leaned against the cooktop. I realized I was writing the wrong story. Forty-one years ago, while an exchange student living at a convent school in […]
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Featured Longreader: Designer Sasha Lamb. See his story picks from The Quietus, Grantland, The Village Voice and more on his #longreads page.
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Grantland, The New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, plus a guest pick by The Daily’s arts & life editor, Claire Howorth.
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Featured Longreader: Journalist Anna Clark. See her story picks from The New York Times, CNN, plus her own Grantland story on her #longreads page.
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GQ's Sean Fennessey: My Top Longreads of 2011
Sean Fennessey is the editor of GQ.com. (See more stories on his Longreads page.) I’ll try to follow a few guidelines for the sake of imagined objectivity, so, no friends; no GQ pieces; no pieces published before January 1, 2011; no stories pseudonymously submitted by my mom; no sandwiches. Here we go, with apologies, to, […]
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Writer Elliott Holt: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
Elliott Holt is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer who is almost finished with her first novel. (See her Longreads page here.) *** I love short stories, so I decided my picks should be mostly short fiction. It’s no secret that the likes of The New Yorker, Granta, The Paris Review, One Story and Tin House […]
