“You can practice a song a thousand times and still its first note sends you into the unknown.”
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Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”
“’Words are the only victors,’ Rushdie wrote in his last novel, ‘Victory City.'”
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Featuring standout reads from Ian Urbina, Hanif Abdurraqib, Sallie Tisdale, Brad Rassler, and Adam Reiner.
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Mere Belief
“One of the pivotal purposes of memoir is to unveil the shades of meaning that exist in what we believe.”
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Off Camera
“So I tiptoed through life, aware that my obsessive enthusiasm could set people off like a bomb.”
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Flat Places
“Whenever I stand in a flat landscape, I feel myself becoming weightless, taken out of my childhood full of painful nothing.”
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Confessions of a Journalist Turned Weed Smuggler
“A veteran reporter looks back on when he was laid off from his newspaper gig and instead of taking a dead-end desk job turned to running van loads of marijuana across state lines.”
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The Evolution of the Hip-Hop Hunk
“One fan’s journey through rap’s pursuit of the female gaze, from LL Cool J to Tupac to Drake.”
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Revisiting My Rastafari Childhood
“Babylon was everything forbidden, and looming all around us—and my father tried to protect us from it at all costs.”