Motivated by seller’s regret and nostalgia, a journalist goes in search of the vinyl of his youth. And not just copies of albums he loved—he wants the exact records he owned and sold.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
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To Consider Myself a Human Being
How China remembers the Cultural Revolution.
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The Salmon’s Identity Crisis
Matthew Berger explores the evolution and the history of salmon aquaculture for Nautilus.
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Shopping for Forbidden Fruit
Rafil Kroll-Zaidi writes about proxy services which help Western shoppers navigate the Japanese online marketplace and buy the goods retailers refuse to sell outside Japan.
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What Sexual SEO Looks Like
In The Walrus, Natalie Zina Waschots describes her time doing search-engine optimization for a Toronto pornography curator.
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Volkswagen and ‘the Normalization of Deviance’
In The Atlantic, Jerry Useem looks at historic precedents in other large organizations such as Johnson & Johnson, Ford and NASA to explore Volkswagen’s expensive mistake and the corporate climate that led to it.
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The People You Meet on Tinder
Fresh from a go-nowhere relationship, Gemma Sieff writes an engrossing personal essay in Harper’s about her passing encounters with a series of men she met on Tinder.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
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The Selling of ‘Valley of the Dolls’
“A new book is like a new brand of detergent,” Jacqueline Susann famously said. “You have to let the public know about it. What’s wrong with that?”