Having a fairly common name gives Rachel Lyon occasional glimpses into the lives of her doppelgangers — and the roads she has not taken.
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Remembrance of Folks Past: A Reading List of the Stories We Tell
“Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story?”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Drowning In a River of Murky Thought
After his high school friend drowns, a young academic’s mind leads him down a dark path of conspiratorial explanations.
Posted inArts & Culture, History, Nonfiction, Story
A History of American Protest Music: Which Side Are You On?
Just as we were in the 1930s and ’60s, America is suffering a moral crisis. We have to decide which side we are on: hate and exclusion, or justice, inclusion, and democracy?
Posted inReading List, Uncategorized
To Reflect, To Love, and To Protest: A Pride Month Reading List
A roundup of longreads to celebrate Pride Month.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Quotes
What Alex Jones and Amanda Chantal Bacon Have in Common
A new profile of the Moon Juice entrepreneur reveals how the hippie left intersects with the conspiracist right.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘In a Marriage, You Grow Around Each Other’: An Interview with Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley on gaining the sense of authority she needed to write fiction, the authors whose work opens the door for her to write, and the way we are formed by our connections with other people.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Character Work
Alison Fields remembers the perils of junior high: fitting in, standing out, and trying out.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
You Don’t Own Me
Some fans prefer small club shows, others like arena rock shows, but do we care what the bands prefer?
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story, Writing
Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace
Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
