rollingstone: If you’re in NYC, please come to our Night of Long-Form Journalism panel Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Housing Works, which we’re presenting in conjunction with Longreads. To get you ready for the panel, we’ve collected a couple great stories from each of the three panelists: Jeff Goodell, Brian Hiatt and Rob Sheffield. Jeff […]
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Gerald Marzorati: Five Longreads for Opening Day
Gerald Marzorati, a former editor of the New York Times Magazine, is an Assistant Managing Editor of the Times “Early Innings,” by Roger Angell. (The New Yorker, Feb. 24, 1992) (sub. required) America’s baseball belletrist here writes of how he came to love the game. “The Silent Season of a Hero,” by Gay Talese. (Esquire, […]
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The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good
The Doree Chronicles: Stuff I Read This Week That Was Good doree: Guy Lawson, “The Stoner Arms Dealers,” Rolling Stone Jessica Hopper, “Wild Flag: An Eight-Part Examination,” Nashville Scene S.J. Culver, “On Expectations (And a Writer’s Lack of Shame),” The Awl Ben Kafka, “Pushing Paper,” Lapham’s Quarterly Nitsuh Abebe, “SXSW Diary: Pitchfork’s…
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Texas Monthly's Recommended Pre-SXSW Longreads
Texas Monthly’s Recommended Pre-SXSW Longreads
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The Lisa Simpson Book Club: Lisa's Longreads
The Lisa Simpson Book Club: Lisa’s Longreads lisasimpsonbookclub: 1. A Convesation With Gore Vidal (The Atlantic) Gore Vidal may have kissed more boys than Lisa, that didn’t stop her from enjoying The City and the Pillar. For a quicker (let more substantive) taste of the Ambrosia Vidal, read this 2009 interview with John Meroney in […]
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#Longreads #List: Stories on Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post
#Longreads #List: Stories on Arianna Huffington and the Huffington Post
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Front of Book: Manhattan Transfers: A Longreads List
Front of Book: Manhattan Transfers: A Longreads List frontofbook: The City can be a beast, as the New York Times pointed out again this week with a fond look at one writer’s former New York apartment (inviting remembrances from readers), and a downtown vet’s bittersweet farewell. Because saying hello to “All That” is as difficult […]
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The Daily Beast's Longreads List: 8 Essential Stories About Egypt
The Daily Beast’s Longreads List: 8 Essential Stories About Egypt
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Jared Keller: Cities and Urban Life: A #Longreads #List
jaredbkeller: I often find that urbanism and urban living are overly romanticized, more often by citydwellers themselves: Stumbling through concrete caravans dripping with mystique, a day-to-day narrative of tempered chaos, or an odd catharsis as told through the lens of sidewalk meet-cute. I often long for life closer to the wilderness, clogged by forests and dirty roads, but […]
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maria bustillos: my #longreads #list : WikiLeaks
maria bustillos: my #longreads #list : WikiLeaks dorkismo: Here is my entry for the #longreads #list: five essential things to read about WikiLeaks. Julian Assange’s 2006 essays, “State and Terrorist Conspiracies” and “Conspiracies as Governance”, which contextualize the author’s efforts better than any interview or article has yet done. 3,164 words:…