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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes
Who Says Healthy Food Can’t Be Accessible and Affordable?
Daniel Patterson, and the challenges of bringing fast healthy food to the impoverished neighborhoods trapped in food deserts.
Posted inEditor's Pick
What Can and Can’t be Learned From a Book
How learning to swim at 24 led Syam Palakurthy to first-hand lessons in gentrification.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction
Girlhood Gone: Notes from the New Nashville
After returning home to Nashville following many years away, Susannah Felts assesses the city’s changing face through the eyes of a native, and as a woman raised in the South.
Posted inBlog Post
In Silicon Valley, Transportation Innovation Is a Flat Circle
Tech wizards may say they want driverless cars or the hyperloop, but what they really, really want is a bus.
Posted inBlog Post, Longreads News, Nonfiction
Longreads Essays Editor Sari Botton’s Guide to Pitching
What I’m looking for, what are the best ways to pitch, and what you can expect from working with me.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Short Distance from Southie, but a World Away
Tara Wanda Merrigan recalls navigating between the very different realms of Harvard and home.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How Gentrification Affects Musicians
In Radio Silence, Ian S. Port writes about the way musicians continue to get squeezed out of cities like San Francisco, Paris and New York.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Death by Gentrification: The Killing That Shamed San Francisco
Alejandro Nieto was killed by police in the San Francisco neighborhood where he spent his whole life. Solnit examines the case surrounding his death and the disintegration of the communities displaced by “disruption.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Gentrification X
Until relatively recently, gentrification was a term used by academics and housing activists. Hancox surveys how it entered the mainstream, and became a rallying cry.
