Come for the Crullers, Stay for the Community By Krista Stevens Highlight “It’s funny, how a seemingly soulless franchise started to feel like an old friend, once I spent enough time there.”
Harshing the Internet Poet’s Mellow By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Instagram poet Collin Andrew Yost got trounced online, but his experience offers a lesson in how to cultivate empathy.
Portrait of the Risk-Taker as a Young Man (or, There’s Something About Spencer) By Michelle Weber Highlight In Victory Journal, Laura Yan profiles Spencer Seabrooke, who breaks world slacklining records walking across loosely tensioned, inch-wide pieces of polyester suspended hundreds of meters in the air.
The ‘Shaman’: A Committed Solo Traveler Struggles to Reconcile Being Raped While Abroad By Longreads Feature As an avid solo traveler—and proponent of the empowerment traveling alone can offer women—Laura Yan has been conflicted about revealing she was raped in Bolivia.
