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Meet the Oldest Rock in the West
“Wyoming’s 3.5 billion-year-old geologic history reminds us that Earth is ever-changing.”
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Shhhh. The Silver Lake Reading Club Has Started
“Begun on the premise that book clubs were too restrictive and too chardonnay-focused, they wanted to provide a space where there was no assigned reading and everyone was welcome.”
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Here’s to What’s Real and True: Support Writing that Matters
“It’s becoming rarer to get to work on writing that’s real and true, a story idea conceived by a human brain and reported by a human heart, a piece of writing that helps us understand others, and ourselves, a little better.” While I’ve followed Longreads since it started as a hashtag in 2009, I’m proud […]
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What Stories Offer, and What They Ask in Return
“Some thoughts demand to be pursued to their limits. We work with writers to help them go the distance, to satisfy their curiosity and yours.” The greatest appeal of Longreads is obvious; it’s right there in the name. But it’s worth considering, for a moment, what length enables in a story, and what those stories […]
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The Wild Within the Walls
“From antiquity to modern times, Rome has been entangled with the wild animals who creep, slither, scurry, and nest among its pillars and palaces.”
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There Are Two Types of Dishwasher People
“And only one of them really knows how to load it.”
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It’s Getting Weirder: Buzzfeed News’ Former Royals Reporter on Kate Middleton, Palace PR, and Distrust in the Media
“There’s an information void surrounding Kate’s current status, and the royal press team has left a lot of space to speculate about what’s actually going on.”
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Disneyland of the Dead
London’s Highgate Cemetery shows us just how hard it is to keep the dead buried.
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In the Shadow of an Immigrant Detention Center, a Small House Offers Refuge
” Amid rising ICE arrests, volunteers provide aid—a meal, a bed, gas money—to anyone visiting someone detained in remote rural Georgia.”
