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10 Short Stories, The Power of Music, and Our Top 5
“I always admired how my father could play so delicately with such brutal hands. They were rough, mired with patches of psoriasis, calloused from playing the charango and the guitar, and scarred, scarred all over.” I have fond memories of playing the violin when I was a child, and over the years I’ve considered returning […]
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Building a Nest
“Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.”
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Abandoned Music Dreams and The Week’s Top 5
“It felt like a homecoming but in retrospect seems more like a goodbye: a last great musical act before leaving that period of my life. It felt romantic, anyway, to record in a barn. We set the drums next to the tractor, tried to coax the chickens into cooing for the microphone, and had a […]
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Weed Between the Lines: A Longreads Cannabis Collection
No matter how you choose to celebrate this year, take some time to revisit Longreads’ many 420-friendly original pieces and recommendations.
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40 Years Later: Sade, “Promise”
“Promise” isn’t necessarily about love, or even about surrender, but about giving your heart over, repeatedly, and enduring the failures that come with the exchange.
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Monumental Tiny News
“The triumph of Lucy Lippard’s El Puente, which is as engaged with the past of a New Mexican village as it is with daily life.”
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Secret in the Walls: Hidden Letters Reveal Love, Lust, Scandal in 1920s Baltimore Society
“Her search for answers would plunge her into 1920s Baltimore society: a celebrated Johns Hopkins scientist, a famous mountaineer and a trailblazing female journalist.”
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I Am the “Other” in “Mother”
“By choosing surrogacy, I felt I outsourced the very essence of what makes a woman worthy.”
