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Featured Longreader: Jana Fitzgerald, editor at Nomad Editions. See her story picks from The Awl, Susan Orlean and more on her #longreads page.

Featured Longreader: Jana Fitzgerald, editor at Nomad Editions. See her story picks from The Awl, Susan Orlean and more on her #longreads page.

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LOGAN: So it’s not necessarily the idea that media coverage of this event will make anyone that has any power change anything, but that it will inspire us to change stuff ourselves?

SAM: I mean, partially. Anything like this always has 500 million different goals and other things that it’s going to accomplish without even intending to accomplish them. So for example, one thing that I thought when I saw a reporter ask the President a question about Occupy Wall Street, and he used it as a chance to try to, he tried to say he agreed with the protesters, even though the reporter had framed the question as like, clearly they think you haven’t done enough and are part of the problem, like, just the fact that that interchange took place! Before Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party were the loud people who were in the street doing things and making noise, which set a tone so that when reporters asked the President a question, they would say, “It seems like a lot of people out there think that government is too big and is spending a lot of money and that taxes are too high, what are you going to do about that?” Right? And now the question was from the opposite direction. And so simply having that be a thing that happens is important.

“Why Should We Demonstrate? A Conversation.” — Logan Sachon, The Awl

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I fucked up with Aunt Mimi, the first time I met her. I was greeted, I was shown the bird feeder where the birds came to keep her company, I was shown around the place. And then I said, “wow, I’ve never been in a trailer before.”

I meant it nicely. I liked trailers; I got a bit jealous, every time we saw them on vacations; I wanted to live in a house like that when I grew up, self-contained and mobile. It seemed vaguely magical to me. It did not, however, seem magical to Aunt Mimi.

She whipped around on me like a snake.

“Well,” she said, “la-dee-dahhh, missy. You enjoying yourself? Is this an experience for you, coming down to see the poor trailer folks? It’s such a treat, getting visitors from the palace.”

“The Percentages: A Biography of Class.” — Sady Doyle, Tiger Beatdown

More from Sady Doyle: “Ellen Ripley Saved My Life.” The Awl, Dec. 7, 2010

The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good

The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good

Cannibals Seeking Same: A Visit To The Online World Of Flesh-Eaters

Cannibals Seeking Same: A Visit To The Online World Of Flesh-Eaters

Meet the Heroes of Early Scientology Reporting

Meet the Heroes of Early Scientology Reporting

Leaving Egypt, with Regrets: The Evacuated Students of Cairo

Leaving Egypt, with Regrets: The Evacuated Students of Cairo