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Posted inArts & Culture, Reading List

Our Zombies, Ourselves: An Undead Reading List

by Erin Blakemore July 19, 2017October 19, 2022

The zombie movie is more than an easy scare. It’s also become an essential lens through which we can view society.

Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Reading List

The 2017 Pulitzer Prize Winners

by Matt Giles April 10, 2017October 19, 2022

This year’s Pulitzer winners include The Salt Lake Tribune, East Bay Times, Colson Whitehead, Heather Ann Thompson, and more.

Colson Whitehead
Posted inBlog Post, Books, Fiction, Nonfiction

Colson Whitehead: An Appreciation

by Carrie Frye July 12, 2016October 19, 2022

Black Cardigan is a great newsletter by writer-editor Carrie Frye, who shares dispatches from her reading life. We’re thrilled to share some of them on Longreads. Go here to sign up for her latest updates. * * * I was skipping around Google the other day and was reminded of a piece by Colson Whitehead called “How To Write.” You may […]

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Colson Whitehead on Gen X, Friendship and The Best Skill a Writer Can Have

by heymarkarms November 23, 2013October 19, 2022

“It was 1991. We’d just been diagnosed as Generation X, and certainly we had all the symptons, our designs and life plans as scrawny and undeveloped as our bodies. Sure, we had dreams. Dan had escaped college with a degree in visual arts, was a cartoonist en route to becoming an animator. Darren was an […]

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