soupsoup: With a bit more time on my hands commuting a few stops on the subway, I need some reading material to Instapaper to my iPad. Longreads has been invaluable in providing me with a great selection of really interesting articles. Along the way, there were five particular stories this year that really caught my […]
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Ellen Ripley Saved My Life
Ellen Ripley Saved My Life On female sci-fi heroines. “So it’s a mercy we have Ripley. David Foster Wallace may not have agreed with his date that The Terminator was one long story about the evils of abortioning—but I do! Girl, call me!—but I find it not at all unreasonable to suggest that the entire […]
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Gordon Likes to Think He is the Most Underrated of All Mythical Heroes
Gordon Likes to Think He is the Most Underrated of All Mythical Heroes Gordon was 19 when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Friends, family, and professionals have told him he’s mentally ill, but he can’t see any of the symptoms. To him, it’s all real. When he takes his prescribed medication, the apocalypse doesn’t vanish; […]
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Mallary Tenore: My Top 5 Media Longreads of 2010
Mallary Tenore covers media news for the Poynter Institute’s Poynter.org. *** Timothy Lavin: The Listener, The Atlantic, Jan/Feb 2010 Refreshing to see well-written stories about lesser-known media phenomena like Coast to Coast AM. James Verini: Lost Exile, Vanity Fair, Feb. 23, 2010 Verini does a great job describing what the death of the paper (in this case, Russia’s English-language […]
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Benjamin Gold: My Favorite Longreads of 2010
benjamingold: Hey it’s the end of 2010, publishers are still trying to figure out how to make money off their online content, and here are my favorite pieces of long form journalism that was published this year (plus one from the 90s)! Richard Morgan, “Seven Years as a Freelance Writer, or, How To Make Vitamin Soup,” (The […]
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Ben Cohen: These are a few of my favorite things
Ben Cohen: These are a few of my favorite things Thank you Ben. Amazing list. bzcohen: I started using Instapaper on a plain ol’ iPod—I know, right?—around June, and I’ve since starred about 180 items, a number that, for the most part, doesn’t include the people and places I can’t not read: The Awl, and […]
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infinite jess: State of the Industry
infinite jess: State of the Industry infinitejess: Thanks to the Bastard Blizzard of 2010, I had plenty of unexpected time this week to get nostalgic, which is by all accounts the best thing to do at this time of year. (Except, oh, drink glühwein in Heidelberg, but whatever.) So I started paging through my bookmarks […]
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Our Desperate, 250-Year-Long Search for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun
Our Desperate, 250-Year-Long Search for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun I asked a ton of people, and while there were a few in favor of singular “they,” this exchange with my old friend Michael, a San Francisco musician, composer and poet (and executive, by day) is representative: Me: Do you write “she” for indeterminate pronoun? What do […]
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An Evening with J.D. Salinger
An Evening with J.D. Salinger In the apartment, which was a brownstown further uptown, Salinger asked us what we would like to drink. I offered my help getting out the ice, but no, he’d prefer to do it himself. The bar’s bottles and glasses were arranged at one end of a counter between the small […]
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Leaving Egypt, with Regrets: The Evacuated Students of Cairo
Leaving Egypt, with Regrets: The Evacuated Students of Cairo Through the dense fog, Gunnar saw a lone old man stand in the middle of a deserted street, berating a fearsome wall of police. Then the helmeted officers began charging, firing a hail of bullets. Gunnar dove behind a car. His pants split. He couldn’t tell […]
