Strong pacing and flow gets your reader to the finish line. The author of Up On Cove Mountain explains why they’re so important.
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The Curious Path to Psychedelic Toads
Introducing an excerpt from “The Ego Trip.”
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Magical Mystery Toads
The long, tangled, and mostly wrong history of the psychedelic toad.
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You and Me and QVC
How a home shopping channel became the soundtrack to a friendship.
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Secrets of the Atomic City
For decades, workers at a nuclear facility in Kentucky were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Management assured them nothing was wrong. Then four friends risked everything to reveal the truth.
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Award Tour (and the Week’s Top 5)
Featuring stories about celebrity look-alikes, siblings, desert living, philanthrocapitalism, and life inside a legal brothel.
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Seeing with Soft Eyes
Jenny Odell on seeing, deep listening, and other ways to strengthen how we observe the life around us.
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi
The Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist author on the superpower he’d like to have, the outlets he likes to read, and his latest work, Chain of Ideas.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
In this edition: metal medicine, hyped humanoids, carnival crossroads, divine defiance, and optimization obsession.
