“The Story of a Failed Startup and a Founder Driven to Suicide.” Alyson Shontell, Business Insider.
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articles read & loved no. 47
dietcoker: An Oddly Modern Antiquarian Bookshop in Toronto specializes in the strangest, most wonderful books. Katherine Arcement writes about her adolescent love of fan fiction. Monica Torres writes about majoring in English while not being white. Dating While Feminist and Christian Emily Perper’s always excellent reading list.
“The Weeklies.” —Monica Potts, American Prospect From our Top 5 Longreads of the Week.
Longreads Member Pick: After Visiting Friends (Chapter 1), by Michael Hainey
This week’s Longreads Member Pick is the first chapter from the best-selling memoir After Visiting Friends, GQ deputy editor Michael Hainey‘s story of his father’s death and his search for answers. Hainey was 6 years old when his father, newspaperman Bob Hainey, died suddenly, but questions remained about the circumstances around his death. We’re proud to feature the book. […]
Longreads Member Pick: Jason Zengerle's First Assignment for Might Magazine
This week, we’re thrilled to feature Jason Zengerle, a contributing editor for New York magazine and GQ who has been featured on Longreads many times. Our Member Pick is Jason’s 1997 story on Michael Moore for Might magazine: “Is This Man the Last, Best Hope for Popular Liberalism in America? And, More Importantly, Does He Have a Sense […]
Longreads Guest Pick: Digg's David Weiner
Today’s guest pick comes from David Weiner, editorial director for Digg and a frequent contributor to the Longreads community. Here’s what he’s reading right now: LA Review of Books LARB really came out of nowhere for me. I was vaguely aware of them for the last year or two, but either they really started hitting […]
Longreads Guest Pick: Digg's David Weiner
Today’s guest pick comes from David Weiner, editorial director for Digg and a frequent contributor to the Longreads community. Here’s what he’s reading right now: LA Review of Books LARB really came out of nowhere for me. I was vaguely aware of them for the last year or two, but either they really started hitting […]
Longreads Member Pick: Baghdad Follies, by Janet Reitman
This week, we’re excited to feature Janet Reitman, a contributing editor for Rolling Stone and the author of Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion. “Baghdad Follies” is Reitman’s 2004 story on what it was like to be a war correspondent in Iraq. As we approach the 10-year anniversary of the war, Reitman reflects on her early […]
