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Childhood Heroes: A Reading List
Earlier this year, a 17-year-old high school student from the Bronx named Donna Grace Moleta won the chance to meet Bill Nye “the Science Guy.”
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Longreads Member Drive Testimonial of the Day: Paul Ford
“I just renewed my subscription, because Mark Armstrong does EVERYTHING he can to support the best work of writers and publishers. Longreads is my favorite magazine and it must succeed. $30 a year is a bargain. Pony up!” -Paul Ford, writer We need your help to get to 5,000 Longreads Members. Join Longreads now and […]
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Announcing the Longreads Member Drive: Help Us Reach 5,000 Members
My name is Mark Armstrong, and four and a half years ago, I created Longreads. What started as an afternoon project has now grown into something much bigger—a global community of readers, sharing what they love, across both nonfiction and fiction. Along the way we’ve built Longreads into a trusted service that recommends the best […]
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The Wisdom of Mr. Rogers
Fred McFeely Rogers taught us about ourselves and fought for PBS.
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Announcing the Longreads Member Drive: Help Us Reach 5,000 Members
My name is Mark Armstrong, and four and a half years ago, I created Longreads. What started as an afternoon project has now grown into something much bigger—a global community of readers, sharing what they love, across both nonfiction and fiction. Along the way we’ve built Longreads into a trusted service that recommends the best […]
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My Top 5 #Longreads on the Business of Film, Music and Books
Longreads’ Mark Armstrong on Steven Soderbergh’s “State of the Cinema” and four other recommended stories about the movie, music and publishing industries.
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Sponsored Longreads: Promote Your Content
As of 2022, Longreads is no longer accepting sponsored content. If you’d like to explore advertising opportunities on Longread.com, send us a note at hello@longreads.com.
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Playlist: 5 Pioneering Computer Demos, featuring MIT, Stanford and Xerox
Mark Armstrong is the founder of Longreads and editorial director for Pocket. Last week we lost a pioneer of early computing, Doug Engelbart, and Tom Foremski has an excellent short backstory about the inventor of the mouse. It was Engelbart’s 1968 demo of computer graphical user interfaces that inspired everything we now use today—yet despite his […]
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The Top 10 Longreads of 2012
[Best of 2012] Thanks to everyone who has participated in the Longreads community this year, and to all of our guests who shared their favorite stories of 2012. The below list represents our editors’ favorite stories of the year, for both nonfiction and fiction. Longreads is edited by Mark Armstrong and Mike Dang, with Kjell Reigstad, […]
