pegb: Pirate’s Booty by Dave Gardetta Technosexual: One Man’s Tale of Robot Love by Addy Dugdale Et Tu, Brooklyn? by Allison Silverman The Golden Suicides by Nancy Jo Sales Addiction Files: Recovering From Drug Addiction, Without Abstinence by Maia Szalavitz Addiction Files: How Do We Define Recovery? by Maia Szalavitz Secret of AA: After 75 Years, […]
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AIDS and Media Coverage, the Early Years: A Longreads List
Logan Sachon is a writer and editor based in Portland. *** Rare cancer seen in 41 homosexuals 1981. New York Times. Lawrence K. Altman. 903 words / 3.5 minutes No mention of AIDS, no utter of HIV, but this is where mainstream media’s coverage of AIDS starts, with the New York Times first mention of […]
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Kate Silver: Bringing Up Kennedy: A Longreads List
Kate Silver: Bringing Up Kennedy: A Longreads List frontofbook: The February Vanity Fair is out, and in the feature well is a look at the JFK inaugural, 50 years later. (Justin Bieber’s youthful mug adorns the cover, not Jack’s.) It seems like, oh, just last month, the mag excerpted Greg Lawrence’s Jackie as Editor. Because […]
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kimaskew: My Favorite #Longreads This Week
kimaskew: In Search of Spiraling Time (Bookslut) The Man Who Spilled the Secrets (Vanity Fair) Michael Chabon: How to Salvage a “Wrecked” Novel (The Atlantic) David Mitchell: Earth calling Taylor (FT.com)
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Capital New York: 7 great longreads by Tom Robbins
Capital New York: 7 great longreads by Tom Robbins capitalnewyork: I was introduced to Tom Robbins while I was in college. My mentor at the time was the editor of the Industrial Workers of the World’s newspaper and he printed packets of reporting for me. I gobbled it up, especially Mr. Robbins’ muckraking at the […]
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Michelle Legro: Top Longreads for Animal Behavior
Michelle Legro: Top Longreads for Animal Behavior michellelegro: They ignored the signs: 100,000 fish floating belly-up in an Arkansas River, 5,000 blackbirds falling out of the sky. Please feel free leave your cat with me when the rapture comes. Until then, enjoy these three longreads about animals and their uncanny behavior. Darcy Frey, “The Bears… […]
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#Longreads #List: Share Your Reading Mixtapes
December was an incredible month for the Longreads community. Thank you to everyone who has shared, discovered, Instapaper’ed and Flipboarded your favorite longreads. From the daily #longreads recommendations to the year-end “Top 5 Longreads of 2010” lists, you’re all proving that the desire for in-depth storytelling, online and offline, is strong—and here to stay. Last […]