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The Easiest Thing First

by Brendan O'Meara December 19, 2022

As host of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, Brendan O’Meara is no stranger to talking about the art and craft of storytelling. In this craft-focused excerpt, we’re digging into Episode 345, in which he interviewed Atavist editor Seyward Darby and freelance writer Sarah Souli about her work on the latest issue of The Atavist. Writing long […]

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Death of the Hiker

by Leyton Cassidy May 7, 2024

Lost on a dangerous trail, Leyton Cassidy’s thoughts take her down a dark path.

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All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards

by Peter Rubin February 25, 2022March 1, 2024

Consider this your reading list for the next few weeks.

Arts & Culture, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Black America Unwittingly Provided the Soundtrack to Its Own Displacement

by Aaron Gilbreath February 12, 2020October 19, 2022

American music may be Black music, but it has now become the music of displacement.

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Best of 2025: All Our Number One Story Picks

by Longreads December 17, 2025December 19, 2025

Every story we selected for the number one slot in our weekly newsletter, all in one place.

Nonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads February 28, 2020October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from James Hamblin, Josina Guess, Edward Carey, Paraic O’Donnell, and Ruth Graham.

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I Remember the Bookstore

by Jason Guriel November 10, 2022March 5, 2024

Jason Guriel | On Browsing | November 2022 | 4,361 words (15 minutes) Let’s browse a bookstore—a Platonic one, a composite. Let’s wander an aisle, running our fingertips across a wall of spines. One spine, thick and black, juts out: the recent NYRB Classics reissue of William Gaddis’s novel The Recognitions. It’s a block of a book, […]