Here are pieces I’ve enjoyed, new and old, about the art and business of book cover design.
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The Importance of Philadelphia to the Work of David Lynch
Philadelphia looms large in the personal mythology of David Lynch as a place that both terrorized him and changed the course of his life, his Gomorrah and his Rubicon in one. A product of small-town America, Lynch credits this onetime epicenter of urban blight with instilling in him a fear and disgust so extreme it […]
Posted inNonfiction, Podcasts
Appropriate for a Seven-Year-Old Child
Navigating life with a transgender child.
Posted inBooks, Reading List
Longreads Best of 2015: Under-Recognized Books
Books that deserved more attention in 2015.
Posted inReading List
Longreads Best of 2015: Essays & Criticism
Story picks by Leslie Jamison, Jia Tolentino, Roxane Gay, Tom Scocca, Ann Friedman, Rachel Syme, Francesca Mari, Sari Botton, and Emily Perper.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
To Consider Myself a Human Being
How China remembers the Cultural Revolution.
Posted inGuest Pick, Reading List
Six Stories About the Swimming Pool
Stories about swimming and swimming pools.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story
Home Is Where the Fraud Is
At the height of the housing crisis, one woman’s bureaucratic odyssey to discover who really owns her home leads her to startling revelations about the housing market.
Posted inDiscussions, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews
The Freelancers’ Roundtable
A conversation between freelancers Eva Holland, Josh Dean, Jason Fagone, and May Jeong about pitching stories, negotiating contracts, and breaking into a tough industry.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction
Interview with a Torturer
Documentary filmmaker and Khmer Rouge survivor Rithy Panh spent hundreds of hours interviewing Duch, the commandant of the Cambodia “killing fields” and one of the most notorious torturers of the 20th century. This is his haunting memoir of those interviews.
