“The writer and farmer on local knowledge, embracing limits, and the exploitation of rural America.”
Writing
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Bucking Expectations: A Conversation with Rachel Hartigan
Oh, the places you’ll go when you say yes.
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Rachel Aviv: Mother and Daughter
“An interview with the author of ‘Strangers to Ourselves’—and now, ‘You Won’t Get Free of It.'”
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Speaking for the Dead
A New York Times veteran considers the art of the obituary and how words give shape to legacies.
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How Reporting Creates Change: A Conversation with Pamela Colloff
Writing is always going to be hard and why it’s worth the struggle.
Posted inQuestionnaire
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Elisa Gabbert
The author of Any Person Is the Only Self and recent Guggenheim fellow talks about the worst time of day, the value of wasting an hour, and chilaquiles.
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The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Cory Doctorow
The author of Enshittification and the new The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI on hammock life, the joy of pulp, and writing through it.
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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise
“An analysis of 200,000 similes from popular fiction.”