We’re back on Branch this week for another round. Share your favorites here.
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Longreads Member Exclusive: An Excerpt from 'Sempre Susan' by Sigrid Nunez
For this week’s Longreads Member pick, we’re excited to share an excerpt from Sigrid Nunez’s memoir Sempre Susan, which comes recommended by Emily Gould, the proprietor of Emily Books, who writes: This memorable passage from Sigrid Nunez’s gemlike memoir of the year she spent under the influence of Susan Sontag begins with a description of a trip to […]
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“The Semplica-Girl Diaries.” George Saunders, The New Yorker (Oct. 2012) Quote found by Charlie Stadtlander
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Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring The New Yorker, Esquire, Miami New Times, Columbia Magazine, New York magazine, and a guest pick by Greg Spielberg.
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What's the Best Sentence You Read this Week?
We’re doing a little experiment with Branch today. Share what you loved reading this week…
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Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring The New York Times Magazine, The Believer, Mo Yan, SF Weekly, The Hairpin, fiction from Electric Literature and the Coffin Factory, and a guest pick by Jia Tolentino. Sign up to receive our Top 5 Longreads email every week.
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Longreads Member Exclusive: Let's Dance, by Sasha Frere-Jones
For this week’s Longreads Member pick, we’re thrilled to share “Let’s Dance,” Sasha Frere-Jones‘s 2010 New Yorker profile of LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy. Frere-Jones writes: “When you begin writing a profile, your first worry is access. Does the subject talk in soundbites? Will he or she let you see anything that hasn’t been rehearsed? (‘Accidental’ meetings […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Los Angeles Magazine, Smithsonian, fiction from The American Scholar and a guest pick from Marissa Evans.
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Longreads Member Exclusive: The American Nonconformist, by Thomas Frank
This week’s Longreads Member pick is “The American Nonconformist in the Age of the Commercialization of Dissent,” a 1992 essay by Thomas Frank from The Baffler, the magazine he cofounded with Keith White in 1988. Frank writes: “In republishing this bit of juvenilia from 1992—my very first exploration of an idea that I reworked and reconsidered […]
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Longreads Best of 2012: Michael Kruse
Michael Kruse, an award-winning staff writer at the Tampa Bay Times who also contributes to ESPN’s Grantland, this year gave a TEDx talk and had a story make the anthology Next Wave: America’s New Generation of Great Literary Journalists. 1. Chris Jones on the animals in Ohio. What a way to start: The horses knew first. And want […]