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“What Do I Know To Be True?”: Emma Copley Eisenberg on Truth in Nonfiction, Writing Trauma, and The Dead Girl Newsroom

by Jacqueline Alnes February 26, 2020December 16, 2022

“We were interested in dead girls, but so interested in them that we were trying to do the opposite of what had been done before.” 

Posted inFeature, Featured, Sports, Story

Shades of Grey

by Ashley Stimpson October 29, 2020November 4, 2022

In 2018, Floridians voted overwhelmingly to end greyhound racing, a sport they were told was archaic and inhumane. What if they were wrong?

Posted inFeatured, Reading List

Behind the Scenes of Longform Storytelling: A Reading List

by Emily Perper February 18, 2017October 19, 2022

These stories will give you an idea of the strength and skill that goes into creating engaging literary journalism.

Posted inNonfiction

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Lockets

by Katy Kelleher July 16, 2020November 25, 2022

Lockets simultaneously display and hide. But does squirreling our love and grief away in a piece of jewelry keep the memories and emotions present for us, or minimize them?

Posted inNonfiction

Where Am I?

by Longreads September 24, 2019January 27, 2023

After a lifetime of alienation, one woman discovered how her spacial disorientation could be a gift that connected her to strangers and made her less alone.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story

What Falls to Earth

by Susanna Space January 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Grieving the mysterious death of her father, Susanna Space seeks refuge in the study of meteors.

Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Featured, Nonfiction

What Falls to Earth

by Susanna Space January 25, 2019October 19, 2022

Grieving the mysterious death of her father, Susanna Space seeks refuge in the study of meteors.

Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Featured, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women

I’m 72. So What?

by Catherine Texier October 23, 2019January 20, 2023

Catherine Texier pushes back against society’s dated ideas about older women, claiming her place among those who are determined to remain vibrant and relevant in the last decades of their lives.

Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story

Searching for The Sundays

by David Obuchowski July 30, 2019October 19, 2022

When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.

Posted inBusiness, Business & Tech, Current Events, Story

Private Telegram, Public Strife

by Jacob Silverman July 3, 2018October 19, 2022

The precarious future of messaging apps.

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