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What It’s Like to Fly Into a Thunderstorm
The art and science of cloud seeding, from the pilots who fly directly into storms to help save farmers’ crops.
Posted inBooks, Member Pick, Nonfiction
‘Quebrado’: The Life and Death of a Young Activist
“If you survive me, tell them this: I never gave up.”
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‘Quebrado’: The Life and Death of a Young Activist
“If you survive me, tell them this: I never gave up.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The True Story of ‘The Poorest Rich Kids in the World’
Longreads Best of 2013 continues with a postscript by Rolling Stone’s Sabrina Rubin Erdely, on her story about Georgia and Patterson Inman, heirs to the Duke fortune.
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Longreads Member Pick: 'Quebrado,' by Jeff Sharlet
This week, we’re excited to share a Member Pick from Jeff Sharlet, a professor at Dartmouth and bestselling author of The Family, C Street, and Sweet Heaven When I Die. “Quebrado” is a chapter from Sweet Heaven, first published in Rolling Stone in 2008, about Brad Will, a young American journalist and activist. Read an excerpt here. Become a Longreads Member to […]
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Longreads Guest Pick: Win Bassett on 'The Poorest Rich Kids in the World'
Win Bassett is a writer, lawyer, and seminarian at Yale. My treasured longread of the week is Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s “The Poorest Rich Kids in the World” in Rolling Stone. I lived down the road from Duke University for ten years, but one doesn’t need any familiarity with the Blue Devils to become enthralled with […]
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Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Top 5 Longreads of the Week Our story picks of the week, featuring Rolling Stone, Alex Buono, the Washington Post, New York magazine and Orion, with a guest pick by E.A. Mann.
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‘Quebrado’: The Life and Death of a Young Activist
As our Longreads Member Drive continues (sign up here to join us), we wanted to share more of our Member Picks with everyone, to show how your financial support helps us find and share outstanding storytelling from the past and present. Today we’re thrilled to feature “Quebrado,” by Jeff Sharlet, a professor at Dartmouth, contributing […]
