December was an incredible month for the Longreads community. Thank you to everyone who has shared, discovered, Instapaper’ed and Flipboarded your favorite longreads. From the daily #longreads recommendations to the year-end “Top 5 Longreads of 2010” lists, you’re all proving that the desire for in-depth storytelling, online and offline, is strong—and here to stay. Last […]
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Now on Longreads.com: Community Picks and (Optional!) Become a Longreads Member
Fun fact: Longreads turned 2 years old last month. Since then, our community has blown up into something bigger but still just as wonderful. So today we’re launching Community Picks, a new section on Longreads designed to showcase all the amazing stories you’re sharing every day. Community Picks features the most popular and recent tweets on […]
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copymattt: Every time I think @markarms couldn’t get any more genius with Longreads.com, he goes and adds some brilliant piece of functionality I hadn’t even considered. Introducing automatic #longreads aggregation – No sign up, no reg, no passwords, no crap. If you’ve ever tweeted the hashtag, then you’ve already got an account. Just go to […]
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Woodland Creature: My Top 15 Longreads of 2011
Woodland Creature: My Top 15 Longreads of 2011 woodlandcreature: Longreads.com has been doing a great series of roundups on its Tumblr, highlighting the best longreads of the year, chosen by well-known writers. I’m not well-known and not really a writer, but here are mine (I couldn’t narrow it down to five): “Travis the Menace,” Dan […]
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Ross Andersen: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011
Ross Andersen is freelancer living in Washington, D.C. He has recently written about technology for The Atlantic, and is now working on an essay for the Los Angeles Review of Books. He can also be found on Twitter at @andersen. *** “The Mother of Possibility,” by Sven Birkerts, Lapham’s Quarterly Procrastination being my favorite vice […]
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Introducing Travelreads: The Best Storytelling for the Best Places in the World, Presented by Virgin Atlantic
One of the coolest things about Longreads is when someone tweets: “I’m at the airport about to fly to San Francisco / New York / London / India / Argentina. I need some #Longreads for the trip.” This got us thinking: What if we started gathering the best #longreads for every destination in the world? […]
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A Longreads Member Exclusive: The Power of a Crisis
A Longreads Member Exclusive: The Power of a Crisis Last year we introduced the Longreads Membership as an optional way for you to support our service. And it’s because of our members that we’re still here today. Thank you again for all your support. Today we’re introducing something new for our Longreads Members: Exclusive access to stories that […]
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The Longreads Membership: What You're Paying For, and Why We're Doing It
By now you’ve probably seen our Longreads Member Picks—a mix of outstanding magazine stories, book chapters and more from the best writers and publishers in the world. You may have already subscribed to Longreads—and if you have, thank you. Your financial support is what allows us to keep Longreads running every day, offering great recommendations and […]
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Submit a Story to Longreads
Publishers, writers, readers: You can submit a story to be featured as one of our upcoming Longreads Member Exclusives. We choose one story per week to send to our paid members, and we pay rights holders to reprint the story. Submission guidelines are below. You can email your submission, as a PDF or text file, […]
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First Chapters: ‘White Oleander,’ by Janet Fitch
Janet Fitch | White Oleander, Little, Brown and Company | 1999 | 19 minutes (4,640 words) Our latest first chapter comes from Longreads contributing editor Julia Wick, who has chosen Janet Fitch’s 1999 novel White Oleander. If you want to recommend a First Chapter, let us know and we’ll feature you and your pick: hello@longreads.com.
