Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
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In My Own Voice, Redefining Success and Failure
Lauren DePino looks back at her ambitions as a singer, and re-evaluates the rejections she once allowed to define her.
Posted inReading List
Longreads Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in business, tech, and science writing.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Targeting and Killing of a Helmandi Combatant
I interviewed everyone present in the tactical operations center during a routine airstrike in Helmand Province. Without exception they believe themselves to be doing the right thing.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Yearning for My Emo Days in Nostalgia-Inducing Asbury Park
A personal essay in which writer Mabel Rosenheck considers her nostalgia for a key time in her life: the summer of 2003, when she was a young, depressed adult attending the Surf & Skate music festival in Asbury Park with friends in a similar emotional space, whom she’d met on the internet.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Jane Mayer, David Zax, Christopher Glazek, Farah Stockman, and Alex Mar.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story
The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing
The history of England’s fertile music press reveals as much about the opinionated English youth who created it as it does the music they covered in the second half of the 20th century.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Danielle McNally, Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, Michelle Dean, and John Knight.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
‘As a Grown Woman, I Still Have To Continuously Learn To Say No’
Memoirist Tanya Marquardt talks about consent, trauma, and investigating our memories in the age of #MeToo.
