This week, we’re sharing stories from Casey Newton, William Langewiesche, Sarah Miller, Hafizah Geter, and Shannon Keating.
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How to Pitch Personal Essays to Longreads: An Updated Guide
New submissions guidelines, plus information about our new essay series.
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Who’s Afraid of Lorne Michaels?
Very rarely can we see an entire system reflected in one person. The creator and executive producer of “Saturday Night Live” is such a person.
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All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards
Consider this your reading list for the next few weeks.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
The Art of the Pan
Sarah Miller recalls her days in the ’90s as a fickle movie critic.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Russ Buettner, Susanne Craig, and David Barstow, Nicole R. Fleetwood, Jaeah J. Lee, Shelley Puhak, and Sarah Miller.
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The Movie Assassin
This personal essay by Sarah Miller has gone viral and divided Twitter. Those who love the piece — about Miller’s struggle in 1996 to get away with panning “The English Patient” for an alt weekly paper — appreciate her brutal honesty and her irreverence toward the Serious Film establishment.
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Life in the Slow Lane
Olivia Potts | Longreads | November 2022 | 16 minutes (4,649 words) It’s six in the morning, and Robert Booth has already been on the road for three hours. Sitting alongside him in the cab of his lorry (the British term for a truck) is Louis, Robert’s small dog, a Jack Russell-chihuahua mix, and a washing-up bowl […]
Posted inCurrent Events, Science & Nature, Story
A View of the Bay
A family’s losses after Hurricane Sandy didn’t come in the usual order or with the usual speed.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Doctor Will See You Now
Sarah Miller eulogizes a close (but not close) relative.
