Longreads: Best of 2011 includes seven of our favorite stories from the past year. The ebook is a unique partnership with the writers and publishers—we want to help celebrate outstanding storytelling, and this is just another way for us to do it. Additionally, money from the ebook sales will be shared with the creators, and […]
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A Talent for Sloth
A Talent for Sloth The work has changed remarkably little over the course of the past century, except in its increasing scarcity. Ninety percent of American lookout towers have been decommissioned, and only around five hundred of us remain, mostly in the West. Nonetheless, when the last lookout tower is retired, our stories will live […]
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Michelle Legro: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
Michelle Legro is an editor for Lapham’s Quarterly (who you should be following on Tumblr!) michellelegro: If you aren’t one of the more than 10,000 people who follow @longreads on Twitter, or get the Longreads Instapaper feed on your iPhone or iPad, then do so immediately. Every day there are perfectly curated features of long-form journalism, […]
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Read This Over the Weekend: Vanishing Act
Read This Over the Weekend: Vanishing Act “Some prodigies flourish, some disappear. But Barbara did leave one last comment to the world about writing—a brief piece in a 1933 issue of Horn Book that earnestly recommends that parents give their own children typewriters. ‘Perhaps there would simply be a terrific wholesale destruction of typewriters,’ she […]
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Lessons in Fame from P.T. Barnum's Autobiography
From Lapham’s Quarterly, lessons on fame and advertising from The Life of P. T. Barnum, which was published in 1855. “Put on the appearance of business, and generally the reality will follow.” And what follows then? Profit. How is this miracle achieved? First, through false superlatives and inflated rhetoric, e.g., “The world-famous _______ is the […]
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Michelle Legro: Top Longreads for Animal Behavior
Michelle Legro: Top Longreads for Animal Behavior michellelegro: They ignored the signs: 100,000 fish floating belly-up in an Arkansas River, 5,000 blackbirds falling out of the sky. Please feel free leave your cat with me when the rapture comes. Until then, enjoy these three longreads about animals and their uncanny behavior. Darcy Frey, “The Bears… […]
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Mother Jones: Whose Tumblrs Are We Digging On This Week?
ilovecharts: motherjones: Glad you asked: Lapham’s Quarterly has this webs thingy all figured out. Longreads ensures we never stop reading, even after work hours. I Love Charts brings graphic order to disorder. And Cajun Boy is, well, Cajun Boy. Just read him, dammit. And speak well of the Saints. Thank you for digging on us! […]
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A Talent for Sloth
A Talent for Sloth The work has changed remarkably little over the course of the past century, except in its increasing scarcity. Ninety percent of American lookout towers have been decommissioned, and only around five hundred of us remain, mostly in the West. Nonetheless, when the last lookout tower is retired, our stories will live […]
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The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good
The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good doree: Guy Lawson, “The Stoner Arms Dealers,” Rolling Stone Jessica Hopper, “Wild Flag: An Eight-Part Examination,” Nashville Scene S.J. Culver, “On Expectations (And a Writer’s Lack of Shame),” The Awl Ben Kafka, “Pushing Paper,” Lapham’s Quarterly Nitsuh Abebe, “SXSW Diary: Pitchfork’s…
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Featured Longreader: @MosesHawk, artist extraordinaire. See his story picks from The Wall Street Journal, Lapham’s Quarterly, London Review of Books and more on his #longreads page.
