Eight stories about modern-day child care, from 24/7 facilities to Montessori wonderlands.
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Posted inBlog Post, Fiction
The Notebooks of Harriet The Spy
Black Cardigan is a great newsletter by writer-editor Carrie Frye, who shares dispatches from her reading life. We’re thrilled to share some of them on Longreads. Go here to sign up for her latest updates. *** A few months ago, my friend Maud was in town from New York, and one afternoon I met her and her stepdaughter at a […]
Posted inNonfiction, Story
The Shaming of the Cherry Sisters
How “Vaudeville’s worst act” fought for fame and respect on the stage.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, First Chapters
The Queen of the Night
The first chapter from Alexander Chee’s much-anticipated second novel.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
King-Killers in America (and the American Who Avenged the King)
When Charles II regained the throne, he launched a global manhunt for the judges who had sentenced his father to death.
Posted inDiscussions, Nonfiction, Quotes, Reading List
On Being Fat
Sara Benincasa’s essay “Why Am I So Fat?” was one of our top five reads last week, and with good reason — it was honest and cutting in all the right ways. It was brash and unapologetic and funny as hell (and also suggests that perhaps Fader was slightly premature in declaring, earlier this year, that […]
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
Ruback
A newspaper journalist’s attempt to correct the record.
Posted inBooks, Fiction, First Chapters, Story
The Queen of the Night
The first chapter from Alexander Chee’s much-anticipated second novel.
Posted inBlog Post, Nonfiction, Reading List
Celebrate Pride: Stories About LGBTQ Parenthood
I. Coming off a seven-hour shift at the bookstore where I work, I texted my boyfriend something like “I cannot handle the idea of coming home and finishing my reading list, I am so tired, I cannot stay up late tonight, pity me,” except with more capital letters and swear words. He suggested, gently, that […]
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
I Can See Your Future: Six Stories About Psychics
Stories about looking for clues about the future.
