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Below, our favorite stories of the week. Kindle users, you can also get them as a Readlist. Sign up to receive this list free every Friday in your inbox. * * * 1. The Abortion Ministry of Dr. Willie Parker John H. Richardson | Esquire | July 30, 2014 | 33 minutes (8,280 words) words) […]
Every week, Syracuse University professor Aileen Gallagher helps Longreads highlight the best of college journalism. Here’s this week’s pick.
An oral history of the beloved political series: Aaron Sorkin: Kivi knew about the meeting and said, “Hey, you know what would make a good series? That.” He was pointing at the poster for The American President. “But this time you’d focus on the staffers.” I told him I wasn’t going to be doing a […]
Chris Wilson: I still remember the very first time I got HTML content pulled over the network through Libwww and I was displaying it on my debugging monitor in my office at NCSA with Jon Mittelhauser sitting over my shoulder looking at it, and thinking that was amazing. I knew that it was going to […]
How China remembers the Cultural Revolution.
Former players, broadcasters, fans and city officials look back on the Giants-A’s series and the devastating 6.9 quake that rocked Candlestick Park and the Bay Area: “McGwire: We thought the whole place was burning up like in 1906. “George Thurlow, fan, upper deck: The mood of the crowd was jubilant and excited and Wow, that […]
Ten years after the singer-songwriter’s death, friends and bandmates tell the story of his life and career: “I had a copy of the finished cassette on me all the time and I was listening to it all the time. I had a lot of friends at Sub Pop and Matador and Cavity Search and all […]
Ghost stories.
“It was the end of the story of John DeLorean as part of the American Dream—how a humble kid from Detroit could rise to the very top.”
Ghost stories.
