For this story, 36 San Francisco Chronicle reporters spent a 24-hour period meeting members of San Francisco’s homeless community in the shelters, the streets, and on public transit to help paint a portrait of the city’s growing homelessness crisis. From the chronically homeless — those who have lived on the streets for more than a […]
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The Light Years
After his parents pushed him out of their home, a teenager descended into the drug-fueled counterculture of the 1970s American West.
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Binders Full of Men
In an excerpt from her new book on fertility, feminism, and queer family-building, Jennifer Berney explores the possibilities of sperm banks.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100: A Reading List
Beat poet and City Lights publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti turns 100 on March 24. Here’s a reading list to celebrate the centenarian.
Posted inBusiness & Tech, Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
Zuckerberg’s Trash Is a Subculture’s Treasure
An entire subculture of Bay Area residents survives by reselling wealthy residents’ trash.
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‘Leaving the Bay Area is the Best Thing You Can Do Right Now, If You Have a Dream’
In the Bay Area, there are two migrations: young people in tech moving in, ready to disrupt, and young people with other dreams — the artists, teachers, blacksmiths, therapists, mechanics, musicians — who leave because there’s no longer a place for them.
Posted inBooks, Business, History, Nonfiction, Story, Uncategorized
The Queering of the Baby Bells
Highly public pressure campaigns against telephone companies were the crux of early LGBTQ activism.
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The Misconception of the Wild
Leo Schwartz finds out what lessons can be learned from the burned-out Oregon backcountry.
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Violence Girl
How a young bilingual Latina became one of punk’s enduring icons and helped create a new musical universe.
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Editor’s Roundtable: Cities, And How They Used to be Good (Podcast)
This week, Longreads editors discuss stories in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The CT Mirror, and Engadget.
