Isaac Fitzgerald is managing editor of The Rumpus, co-founder of Pen & Ink, and uses Twitter. Disclaimer: I know many of the people on this list. One of the wonderful things / occupational hazards of working for a site like The Rumpus is that I’ve come to meet a lot of great writers. These stories stand on their own regardless. […]
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Michelle Legro: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
Michelle Legro is an editor for Lapham’s Quarterly (who you should be following on Tumblr!) michellelegro: If you aren’t one of the more than 10,000 people who follow @longreads on Twitter, or get the Longreads Instapaper feed on your iPhone or iPad, then do so immediately. Every day there are perfectly curated features of long-form journalism, […]
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This is mostly the truth. It was 1958 and Barbara Jean was 27 years-old. In Seattle, just before midnight she had a fight with my grandfather after returning from a summer party. Her three daughters all less than 8 years-old, were in bed when she retreated into the closet and as my copy of her […]
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: New York Magazine, Texas Monthly, Fast Company, The Rumpus, The New Yorker, and a guest pick from Evan Ratliff from The Atavist.
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Writer Logan Sachon: My Top Longreads of 2011
Logan Sachon writes for The Awl and other places also. She lives in Virginia. *** • “Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library,” by Maria Bustillos (The Awl) This piece just blew me away, and I’m not even a DFW devotee (I’ve yet to tackle any of his books). To go to his library, to transcribe notes […]
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Reflecting on the bonds between women, often overlooked or underappreciated, and how these bonds will help the writer in her time of need: I made friends with a group of women. I was 22, and all three women — one American, one German, and one Argentinian – were 30 years older than I and had […]
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week: Featuring The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Rumpus, Wired, a #fiction pick, plus two guest picks from Jalees Rehman, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Photo: Yutaka Tsutano/Flickr
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What it’s like to be a bisexual man in a world that wants you to choose between being either gay or straight: Recently, on OKCupid, a woman messaged me: “Are you truly into ladies, and if so, what type? Finding a truly bi man is like finding a unicorn.” If I’m a unicorn where I […]
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Confronting a letter writer who fears he may be too ugly for a romantic relationship: This, sweet pea, is where we must dig. You will never have my permission to close yourself off to love and give up. Never. You must do everything you can to get what you want and need, to find ‘that […]
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On the balance between admiration and friendship. A writer strikes up an email relationship with the author he most admires, Leonard Michaels: In his work Lenny exhibited incisiveness, self-awareness, and control, and yet in life he sometimes appeared to me to be innocently childlike. He was often very emotionally candid. He talked freely and unguardedly […]
