27 must-read stories on the making of the world’s greatest magazines.
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Making the Magazine: A Reading List
27 must-read stories on the making of the world’s greatest magazines.
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Poison Tree
An open letter to Grand Theft Auto IV’s protagonist Niko Bellic about Grand Theft Auto V and video game culture: “Almost everyone I know who loves video games — myself included — is broken in some fundamental way. With their ceaseless activity and risk-reward compulsion loops, games also soothe broken people. This is not a […]
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18 Deep Interviews with Great Writers
Kevin Smokler shares some of his favorite interviews.
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Reading List: What's In A Dream? Writers Explore New York
Emily Perper is a freelance editor and reporter, currently completing a service year in Baltimore with the Episcopal Service Corps. As my service year winds down and I begin to look for jobs, I’m simultaneously drawn to and repulsed by the New York mythos. Here are four pieces that explore the romance, the real estate, […]
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
18 Deep Interviews with Great Writers
Kevin Smokler shares some of his favorite interviews.
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David Foster Wallace and the Nature of Fact
David Foster Wallace saw clear lines between journalists and novelists who write nonfiction, and he wrestled throughout his career with whether a different set of rules applied to the latter category.
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Longreads Best of 2012: Doree Shafrir
Doree Shafrir is the Executive Editor of BuzzFeed. Her story, “Can You Die from a Nightmare?” was featured on Longreads in September. This year I read a lot of great personal essays, but these were my favorites. Meaghan O’Connell, “Places I’ve Lived: A Nanny’s Room, the Perfect Sublet, and a Place You Can Instagram,” The […]
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Letter from ‘Manhattan’
From 1979: Joan Didion reviews Woody Allen. “These faux adults of Woody Allen’s have dinner at Elaine’s, and argue art versus ethics. They share sodas, and wonder ‘what love is.’ They have ‘interesting’ occupations, none of which intrudes in any serious way on their dating. Many characters in these pictures ‘write,’ usually on tape recorders. […]
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Grief, Memory, and the Vortex Effect
In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion’s memoir about the death of her husband and her daughter’s sudden sickness, Didion describes being paralyzed by memories of her family triggered during mundane circumstances. She calls this experience “the vortex effect.” Matt Zoller Seitz’s Salon essay, “All The Things That Remind Me Of Her,” shows the […]
