Story picks by Leslie Jamison, Jia Tolentino, Roxane Gay, Tom Scocca, Ann Friedman, Rachel Syme, Francesca Mari, Sari Botton, and Emily Perper.
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Friends 4 Ever: Five Stories About Friendship
Inspired by this week’s Longreads Member Pick (“Friendship is Complicated,” Maria Bustillos), this week’s Reading List is about the joy, power and struggles of friendship.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Our favorite stories of the week featuring, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Magazine, Jezebel, and The Awl.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Eudora Welty on Moving from Writer to Reader
What her 1972 Paris Review interview reveals about her approach to the craft.
Posted inNonfiction, Reading List
Friends 4 Ever: Five Stories About Friendship
Inspired by this week’s Longreads Member Pick (“Friendship is Complicated,” Maria Bustillos), this week’s Reading List is about the joy, power and struggles of friendship.
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Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction No. 119
From 1990: George Plimpton interviews the acclaimed poet, who died Wednesday at age 86: When I finish maybe fifty pages and read them—fifty acceptable pages—it’s not too bad. I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead […]
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‘She’s Good, With a Capital G’: A Roxane Gay Reading List
A reading list could never do author Roxane Gay justice. For one thing, she’s incredibly prolific. She writes, edits, teaches and tweets. Within the past few months, she’s garnered acclaim for her intense novel, An Untamed State, and her collection of essays, Bad Feminist. These are just the facts. I don’t remember discovering Gay’s work. I remember requesting […]
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Gravity
‘My daughter doesn’t have a father, or, she has two fathers, since I don’t know which man her father is. One of her fathers says it’s like Schrödinger’s cat in there.’
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
When the Messiah Came to America, She Was a Woman
On the rise and fall of American utopia.
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Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Stories
Stories that deserved more attention in 2015.
