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Michelle Dean

Posted inNonfiction, Story

Born Again

by Longreads May 1, 2018October 19, 2022

“Rebirth therapy” was meant to help a troubled girl start over, but it ended her life instead.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Profiles & Interviews, Story

Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean

by Natalie Daher April 4, 2018October 19, 2022

On Didion, Arendt, Malcolm, Ephron and other women writers who made an art of having an opinion.

Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Editor's Pick, Profiles & Interviews

Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean

by Natalie Daher April 4, 2018October 19, 2022

On Didion, Arendt, Malcolm, Ephron and other women writers who made an art of having an opinion.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Sharp Women Writers: An Interview With Michelle Dean

by Dana Snitzky April 4, 2018October 19, 2022

Cultural critic Michelle Dean discusses her new book Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion. Topics covered range from emotionally fraught book reviews of Susan Sontag to male blowback against the famous first line of Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer to how horrified Elizabeth Hardwick was by her friend Adrienne […]

Posted inCrime, Nonfiction, Quotes

Is This House Haunted, or Is That Just a Drunk Guy on the Lawn?

by michelleweber October 31, 2017October 19, 2022

The owners of the real-life Amityville Horror house had to have the street address changed to avoid the real terror: tourists.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The True, Twisted Story of Amityville Horror

by michelleweber October 31, 2017October 19, 2022

No one place has made as deep an impression on American pop culture as the notorious Long Island home, site of a terrible murder and the basis of scores of books and movies.

Posted inArts & Culture, Featured, Nonfiction, Quotes

Michelle Dean Uncovers Some Truths About Snopes

by Krista Stevens September 26, 2017October 19, 2022

The history of Snopes, the legendary internet fact-finding site.

Posted inNonfiction, Top 5

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

by Longreads September 22, 2017October 19, 2022

This week, we’re sharing stories from John Woodrow Cox, Danielle McNally, Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, Michelle Dean, and John Knight.

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