This month’s books newsletter is overflowing with regional fiction, travel writing … and retro-botany.
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How to Pitch Personal Essays to Longreads: An Updated Guide
New submissions guidelines, plus information about our new essay series.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Night Charlie Parker Soared in South Central L.A.
Despite fire, gentrification, and time erasing Los Angeles’ rich jazz history, stories help protect it. One historic event occurred in 1947, when the saxophonist genius named Bird jammed after-hours at Jack’s Basket Room, rejuvinated from a six month sober stay at Camarillo State Hospital. Some say it was Bird’s greatest performance. We’ll have to believe […]
Posted inStory
‘I’m Always Writing Against This Idea That Denver’s a White Space.’
Kali Fajardo-Anstine talks about her new short story collection “Sabrina & Corina,” her obsession with dualities, and Chicano and Indigenous history in Denver.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2020: Essays
A small sampling of standout essays published this year.
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes
The Power of a Neighborhood’s Name
When Google Maps’ data renamed an African American neighborhood, it opened up residents to the looming forces of gentrification.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, History, Quotes
‘Black Flight’ out of Chicago
By 2030, Chicago’s Black population will have decreased by half a million people in 50 years.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Essays & Criticism, Fiction, Story
Will Amazon Finally Kill New York?
A New Yorker reads “Seasonal Associate” in the age of HQ2.
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re sharing stories from Keegan Hamilton, Mike Maciag, Brian Goldstone, Nick Heil, and Megan Reynolds.
Posted inEditor's Pick
If San Francisco is so great, why is everyone I love leaving?
Currently in the Bay Area, there are two migrations: one of young people in tech moving to San Francisco, ready to disrupt; and another of young people with other dreams — the artists, teachers, blacksmiths, therapists, mechanics, musicians — who leave because there’s no longer a place for them anymore.
