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 […]
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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 […]
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Featured Longreader: Writer/editor Dan Kois. See his story picks from The New York Times Magazine, The Awl, New York Magazine and more on his #longreads page.
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Featured Longreader: Writer Benjamin Freed. See his story picks from The Awl, The AV CLub, The New Yorker and more on his #longreads page.
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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.
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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.
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Arbitrage is a risk-free way of making money by exploiting the difference between the price of a given good on two different markets—it’s the proverbial free lunch you were told doesn’t exist. In this equation, the undervalued good in question is hog meat, and McDonald’s exploits the value differential between pork’s cash price on the […]
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, 5280 Magazine, New York Magazine, The Awl, plus a guest pick from technologist and writer Matt Langer.
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The Awl's Choire Sicha, Carrie Frye, Alex Balk: Our Top Longreads of 2011
(Left to right: Choire, Carrie, Alex) Because there are three of us, we trilaterally decided to go for 15. But it’s not really five each; that becomes complicated, too, but… well, anyway, no matter how you cut it, surely at least one of us hated some of these stories. Also to be fair, this list, […]
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[Fiction] He told her that she was moving too much, that she had to stay stiller, the camera was finicky, the exposures depended on no motion, like just stop breathing, he said looking at the playback, just stop breathing, okay. Lindsay thought it was a joke and laughed but he said it was serious, this […]
