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Best of 2022: Reader Favorites

by Longreads December 27, 2022December 27, 2022

You’ve heard from the Longreads’ editors, now it’s the turn of our readers.

An empty chair sits in front of a typewriter and small desk in a desolate wood room with a view.
Posted inUncategorized

Odd, Genius, or Something In Between: A Reading List on Writers

by Lisa Bubert August 16, 2022January 25, 2023

“Give me the weird tics, the turns of phrase, the strange beginnings. Give me the writer in their natural habitat.”

A woman hiking on a winter day starts a fire outside a shelter on the Appalachian Trail in Carter County, Tennessee
Posted inReading List

Gone For a Hike: A Reading List on Wilderness and Survival

by Kelsey Zimmerman February 16, 2022October 19, 2022

Five captivating reads on adventures you never want to have.

Posted inEditor's Pick

This Isn’t the California I Married

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands January 3, 2022October 19, 2022

“The honeymoon’s over for its residents now that wildfires are almost constant. Has living in this natural wonderland lost its magic?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Social Life of Forests

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 4, 2020October 19, 2022

“Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?”

Posted inCurrent Events, Featured, Highlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘This Thing Grinds You Like a Mortar’: How Jessica Lustig is Fighting Coronavirus

by Krista Stevens March 25, 2020October 19, 2022

‘“You shouldn’t stay here,” he says, but he gets more frightened as night comes, dreading the long hours of fever and soaking sweats and shivering and terrible aches.’

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Longreads Best of 2019: Profiles

by Longreads December 17, 2019October 13, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in profiles.

Posted inHighlight, Quote Posts, Quotes

‘Something’s Got to Give’: Redux

by Krista Stevens July 18, 2019October 19, 2022

“Get me out of here — I’m losing it!”

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How to Cover Native American Sports

by Matt Giles April 13, 2018October 19, 2022

First, please retire the clichés.

Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Quotes, Writing

Leslie Jamison: Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?

by Krista Stevens March 13, 2018October 19, 2022

When Leslie Jamison got sober she wanted to know how a life lived without alcohol would affect her writing.

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