The creator of The Marginalian and author of the new book Traversal responds to 25 questions on writing, reading, and creativity.
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The Butchering
“It also showed me a kind of pedagogy that exists in our communities. There are no grades in these moments, only stories and sometimes another pair of hands to guide your way.”
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Our Top 5: Reads on the Brain, Wildfire, Power, and More
This newsletter is one of our favorite things we work on as a team: a culmination of our curation work and a show of appreciation for all the hardworking writers and journalists out there who entertain, provoke, and inform us each week. Each Top 5 also serves to chronicle what’s happening in our world at […]
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Georgia’s Largest Industry Faces a Mental Health Crisis
“A new outreach program focused on farmers is missing something: farmers. But experts are determined to meet them wherever they are.”
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The Miraculous Journey of a Captive-Bred Hermit Crab
“A self-taught crab enthusiast is doing something remarkable — breeding land hermit crabs in her home.”
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It
“Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings.”
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The Day My Wartime Cat Went Missing
“Time to leave it all behind — the people, the country, the war — and return to America, cats in tow.”
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Downward Spiral
“The nautilus’s lineage made it through all five of Earth’s previous mass extinctions. But can it survive the Anthropocene?”
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How Weed Strains Get Their (Amusing, Provocative, Downright Wacky) Names
“If you thought that the cannabis business, with its counter-culture, middle-finger-to-the-system ethos would have a single method by which all new strains receive their name, you must be high.”
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Ibram X. Kendi
The Stamped and How to Be an Antiracist author on the superpower he’d like to have, the outlets he likes to read, and his latest work, Chain of Ideas.
