We’re back on Branch this week for another round. Share your favorites here.
Books
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Longreads Member Exclusive: An Excerpt from 'Sempre Susan' by Sigrid Nunez
For this week’s Longreads Member pick, we’re excited to share an excerpt from Sigrid Nunez’s memoir Sempre Susan, which comes recommended by Emily Gould, the proprietor of Emily Books, who writes: This memorable passage from Sigrid Nunez’s gemlike memoir of the year she spent under the influence of Susan Sontag begins with a description of a trip to […]
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“The Semplica-Girl Diaries.” George Saunders, The New Yorker (Oct. 2012) Quote found by Charlie Stadtlander
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“Diary: Google Invades”—Rebecca Solnit, London Review of Books Quote found by Michael Kruse
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Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring The New Yorker, Esquire, Miami New Times, Columbia Magazine, New York magazine, and a guest pick by Greg Spielberg.
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What's the Best Sentence You Read this Week?
We’re doing a little experiment with Branch today. Share what you loved reading this week…
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Longreads Member Exclusive: A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction, by Nate Silver
This week we’re proud to share a Longreads Member pick from Nate Silver‘s new book The Signal and the Noise, published by The Penguin Press. Chapter 1, “A Catastrophic Failure of Prediction,” comes recommended by Janet Paskin, editor of Businessweek.com, who writes: Could there be a more appropriate hero for our time than Nate Silver? We can quantify and track […]
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Forever Young
A group of Hungarian game developers spent more than 20 years developing a game for the Commodore 64.
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Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Mo Yan, SF Weekly, The Hairpin, fiction from Electric Literature and the Coffin Factory, and a guest pick by Jia Tolentino. Sign up to receive our Top 5 Longreads email every week.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Los Angeles Magazine, Smithsonian, fiction from The American Scholar and a guest pick from Marissa Evans.