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Longreads editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.

“After Lathrop died, I could not bring myself to delete his phone number.”

In late 2008, Democratic Colorado Governor Bill Ritter received a political stick of dynamite when President-elect Obama announced his intention to appoint U.S. Senator Ken Salazar as his Secretary of the Interior. Ritter would have to replace Salazar, a respected Latino legislator and a popular figure throughout the state. Ritter was inundated with resumés from prominent […]

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