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Washington D.C.

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Ginni and Clarence: A Love Story

by Seyward Darby June 29, 2023June 29, 2023

“How they saved one another, raged against their enemies, and brought the American experiment to the brink.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Fugitive Heiress Next Door

by Seyward Darby June 28, 2023June 28, 2023

“How a reclusive woman’s past in suburban D.C. sparked a true-crime sensation in Brazil—and a national reckoning over the status of household servants.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Two Kids, a Loaded Gun and the Man Who Left a 4-Year-Old to Die

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 18, 2021October 19, 2022

The children will never recover from what happened inside a D.C. apartment. The owner of the illegal gun faces far less serious consequences.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Vegan Food Wars of DC

by Peter Rubin October 7, 2021October 19, 2022

“A crew of innovator chefs and entrepreneurs have turned Washington into a hub of plant-forward dining. But they have all kinds of competing ideas about what meat-free fare should be.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

What Mike Fanone Can’t Forget

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 12, 2021October 19, 2022

“There is a thin blue line between order and chaos, and at that moment, Mike Fanone was it.”

Posted inArts & Culture, Media, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Washington D.C.’s New Media Landscape Is Niche

by Aaron Gilbreath September 4, 2019October 19, 2022

General readers won’t have heard of their publications, but Washington D.C.’s trade press cater to specialist readers who pay top dollar for the beats they cover.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Server, Busser, Manager, Spy: Inside the High-Stakes World of Restaurant Oppo Research

by benhuberman December 15, 2017October 19, 2022

When a famous critic enters a restaurant, they become the most scrutinized item on the menu.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Spies, Dossiers, and the Insane Lengths Restaurants Go to Track and Influence Food Critics

by benhuberman December 14, 2017October 19, 2022

When a glowing review can catapult a restaurant into stardom and a bad one can spell its doom, owners increasingly resort to a mainstay of political campaigns: opposition research.

Posted inEditor's Pick

House of Cards: The Politics of Calling Card Etiquette in Nineteenth-Century Washington

by michelleweber February 15, 2017October 19, 2022

In the early republic, social media had its own crucial importance — although what the media employed was not the tweet, but little bits of pasteboard.

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Longreads Member Pick: 'This Town,' by Mark Leibovich

by Longreads August 6, 2013October 19, 2022

This week’s Member Pick is from the new book by Mark Leibovich, the chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and a writer who’s been featured on Longreads frequently in the past. This Town, published by Penguin’s Blue Rider Press, is Leibovich’s insider tale of life inside the Beltway bubble of Washington, D.C., and […]

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