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Balthazar, 1997
“The noise between the world in which we had known each other and the world I occupied now went silent, or maybe only hushed.”
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The Teacher in Room 1214
“When a gunman killed two of her students, Ivy Schamis was the only adult in the room. Her journey through guilt and healing sheds light on the impossible role of American teachers.”
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Senior Editor at Longreads Cheri Lucas Rowlands is a founding editor at Automattic and has worked on Longreads since 2014. Stories she’s edited have won ASJA Awards and a Pushcart Prize, been named a James Beard Award finalist, and received notable mentions in Best American Essays and The Best Women’s Travel Writing. Writers have landed agents and […]
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Ditch
“He was always helping someone through something, even when he was barely holding on himself.”
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Dungeons & Dragons’ Epic Quest to Finally Make Money
“Can Hasbro overcome 50 years of D&D business disasters without enraging its fan base?”
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Building a Nest
“Lauren Markham and Jenny Odell discuss people, books, and places as inspiration; grief and the creative process; and the conscious attention required by climate crisis.”
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Course of Treatment
“After Stanford physician Bryant Lin was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, he invited students to follow along.”
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On Writing: An Abecedarian
“To be inside the cathedral of a language is to be inside a particular view of the world.”
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I Tried to Forget My Whole Life. I’m Glad I Failed.
The hindsight of an adulthood autism diagnosis.
