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How to Start a Professional Sports Team, Win Games, and Save the Town
“After the A’s announced they were leaving Oakland, a pair of lifelong fans set out to do something audacious: start a beloved pro baseball team of their own. Remarkably, they pulled it off. Now the Oakland Ballers need to survive.”
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Tripping on LSD at the Dolphin Research Lab
How a 1960s interspecies-communication experiment went haywire.
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There Is No Point in My Being Other Than Honest with You: On Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters
“Above all else, Morrison’s rejection letters focus on craft—that is, on the experience of reading a work under review.”
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Pitch Perfect: The History and Influence of the Pitchfork 10.0
What does it mean for an album to receive a perfect score from the internet’s most contentious music publication?
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Architecture and Blackberries: The Art of Longform Narratives
As host of The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, Brendan O’Meara is no stranger to talking about the art and craft of storytelling. In this craft-focused excerpt, we’re digging into Episode 340, in which he interviewed Atavist editor Jonah Ogles and freelance writer J.B. MacKinnon about his work on the latest issue of The Atavist. The seduction […]
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Sitting in the Waiting Room
“We wait constantly, for a variety of outcomes and eventualities, some of which we can’t see coming.”
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Rubble From Bone
“The war on Gaza is at its core retributive: an act of collective punishment.”
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We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.
“American surgeons who witnessed the civilian carnage of the Israel-Hamas war.”
