Monica Drake recalls a brush with fame, when a famous actress took an interest in making a movie from her novel.
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Committed: Stories About Stays in Psychiatric Facilities
In this week’s list, I wanted to share the experiences of those committed—voluntarily or not—to a psychiatric facility.
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Can ‘Mad Maps’ Offer Patients a Way to Take Charge of Their Psychiatric Care?
Like advanced directives for the dying, DuBrul explained, mad maps allow psychiatric patients to outline what they’d like their care to look like in future mental health crises. The logic is: If a person can define health, while healthy, and differentiate health from crisis, that person can shape his or her own care. The maps […]
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Whale Tales: A Reading List
These four stories demonstrate humans’ multi-faceted relationship with whales–where politics, the environment and the economy intermingle with love, terror and cruelty.
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The 2015 National Magazine Award Winners: A Reading List
This year’s National Magazine Awards were handed out Monday night in New York, with General Excellence honors going to publications including The New Yorker, Glamour, Garden & Gun, Nautilus and The Hollywood Reporter.
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Slither and Hiss: Four Stories About Snakes
This week, I’m sharing four stories about snakes and the people who love, hate, and tolerate them in equal measure.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week, featuring The Big Roundtable, Down East, The Believer, Pacific Standard, and The Atlantic.
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30,000 Words, 700 Jobs, One Year
A few months ago, a friend considering a freelance writing career asked me how much money I make as a writer. I wanted to say, “You mean, what’s the going rate for a human soul?”
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Our Sex Education: A Reading List
Here are nine stories about modern-day sex education and our history with bad sex ed classes.
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Whale Tales: A Reading List
These four stories demonstrate humans’ multi-faceted relationship with whales–where politics, the environment and the economy intermingle with love, terror and cruelty.
