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What’s a Better Metric for the ‘Health’ of Longform?
Dean Starkman, Mathew Ingram and Gangrey are all continuing the conversation about whether there is a “Longform Meltdown” at the major newspapers. Since I don’t think the data shows anything as dramatic as what Starkman and CJR’s headline suggests—and putting aside the question of whether “longform” means narrative or investigative or both—I thought I’d ask a new question: Is…
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Here Is What Happens When You Leave Lindsay Lohan Out of Your ‘Longform Meltdown’ Story
Dean Starkman’s piece feels oddly timed, especially when you think about the number of outstanding stories being shared in the Longreads community every day and the popularity of long-form content in Pocket. 1. Starkman is examining just four newspapers (The New York Times, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times), leaving out…
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Longreads Member Exclusive: The American Nonconformist, by Thomas Frank
longreads: This week’s Longreads Member pick is “The American Nonconformist in the Age of the Commercialization of Dissent,” a 1992 essay by Thomas Frank from The Baffler, the magazine he cofounded with Keith White in 1988. Frank writes: “In republishing this bit of juvenilia from 1992—my… Longreads Member Exclusive: The American Nonconformist, by Thomas Frank
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The Year in Pocket: 240 Million Saves in 2012, and Vanity Fair’s “Obama’s Way” Most-Saved Article
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Longreads Best of 2012: Emily M. Keeler
emk-irl: longreads: Emily M. Keeler is a writer and the founding editor of Little Brother Magazine. Best Pair of Essays on Loneliness Emily Cooke, “The Lonely Ones” – The New Inquiry Susan Sontag is a force that continues to be reckoned with, and the publication of her second volume of journals… Longereads invited me to…
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longreads: Our Top 5 Longreads of the Week—featuring New York magazine, Washington Post, The Daily (RIP), Vanity Fair, The Guardian, fiction from The New Yorker and a guest pick by Reine Gammoh.
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Pocket Rolls Out New Site Subscription Partners: Is This A Better Way Forward For Mobile Magazines?
Re: This, very excited about what this means for publishers. Pocket Rolls Out New Site Subscription Partners: Is This A Better Way Forward For Mobile Magazines?
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Customer Service.
akristofcak: This post is a bit of a whine, and a self-pitying one, so if you’re generally not into that or not in the mood for it right now, consider yourself forewarned. Today I received an email at iluv@reading.ly, the general inbox for Readingly, the app I created from scratch and spend 99.9% of my……
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Longreads Member Exclusive: Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse
longreads: This week we’re excited to feature a Longreads Exclusive from David Kushner, a contributing editor to Rolling Stone whose work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired. “Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse” is Kushner’s 2007 Rolling Stone profile of the Pulitzer… Longreads Member Exclusive: Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse
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longreads: “State of the Species.” — Charles C. Mann, Orion Magazine More by Orion