This week’s Longreads Member pick is Chapter 1 from Nicholson Baker’s 2009 novel, The Anthologist, published by Simon & Schuster. The excerpt comes recommended by Hilary Armstrong, a literature student at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Longreads intern. She writes: Someone I love once told me that they don’t understand poetry. It’s all random line breaks and rhythms […]
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Longreads Member Exclusive: The Anthologist (Excerpt), by Nicholson Baker
This week’s Longreads Member pick is Chapter 1 from Nicholson Baker’s 2009 novel, The Anthologist, published by Simon & Schuster. The excerpt comes recommended by Hilary Armstrong, a literature student at U.C. Santa Barbara and a Longreads intern. She writes: Someone I love once told me that they don’t understand poetry. It’s all random line breaks and rhythms […]
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring Slate, Gizmodo, The Awl, Two Serious Ladies, Time, fiction from The New Yorker, and a guest pick by Anna Hiatt.
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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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“Diary: Google Invades”—Rebecca Solnit, London Review of Books Quote found by Michael Kruse
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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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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 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 […]
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Longreads Best of 2012: Emma Carmichael
Emma Carmichael is the managing editor of Gawker. She lives in Brooklyn. The Best Thing I Read About A Woman Who Got Blamed For Everything The Woman Who Took the Fall for JPMorgan Chase, by Susan Dominus (New York Times Magazine) I tend to steer clear of stories about finance because I assume they’ll either […]