Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: Salon, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, Nature, a fiction pick, plus a guest pick from Emily Keeler.
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Featured Longreader: Tyler Gleason, student, intrepid explorer and politics enthusiast. See his story picks from The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Washington Monthly, plus more on his #longreads page.
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Featured: Journalist and globetrotter Ana Lopez. See her story picks from The New York Times’s Pam Belluck, The Atlantic’s James Fallows, The Guardian, plus more on her #longreads page.
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Featured: E.’s #longreads page. See his story picks from The Village Voice, The Atlantic, Deadspin, plus more.
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Featured Longreader: Author Danyel Smith. See her story picks from Bloomberg News, The Atlantic, Esquire, plus more on her longreads page.
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The story of Dan Marlowe, a pulp writer who suffered from amnesia, befriended an ex-con, and later inspired writers like Stephen King: Physicians thought the amnesia was psychosomatic, brought on by stress and money troubles, but there were hints of physical problems too. Before his brain emptied out, Marlowe had been laid low by crushing […]
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Featured: Marcus Sortijas, writer, editor and WordPress specialist. See his story picks from The Atlantic, The San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, plus more on his #longreads page.
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How did a blackjack player manage to win $15 million from Atlantic City casinos over the course of several months? As Johnson remembers it, the $800,000 hand started with him betting $100,000 and being dealt two eights. If a player is dealt two of a kind, he can choose to “split” the hand, which means […]
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: Slate.com, The Atlantic, The Texas Observer, n+1, Guernica, a fiction pick, plus a guest pick from Marcus Sortijas. Photo: Wikipedia
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[Not single-page] From the 2012 James Beard Award nominations: A profile of Sam Mogannam, who transformed his tiny family grocery store, San Francisco’s Bi-Rite Market, into one the most influential stores in the country: When Mogannam was 15 years old, the market was owned by his father and uncle. The Mission district hadn’t yet been […]
