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This week, the super Lyra McKee was generous enough to share What’s In Her Pocket.
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A Longreads Member Exclusive: When Your Therapist Drives You Crazy
longreads: Our second Longreads members exclusive! Our latest pick comes from Sabrina Rubin Erdely, a writer for Rolling Stone whose work has been featured on Longreads quite a bit. She wrote this piece, “When Your Therapist Drives You Crazy,” in 2002 for Philadelphia magazine. You can read an excerpt of our second exclusive here.
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longreads: “Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Right Now?” — Ben Makuch, Vice More from Vice
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Crushing Debt Drove Me to Kosovo — And Then to Iraq
Crushing Debt Drove Me to Kosovo — And Then to Iraq
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Curation and the Questions No One Is Asking
It’s been three months since our last Internet debate about “curation,” so by all means, let’s have another one! The latest argument began last week after a mysterious tweet seemed to finally produce hard evidence that curators do, in fact, think they are better than everyone else. I’ve never met a “curator” who believes this,…
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Nate Weiner: Why Read It Later/Pocket Went Free
From Read It Later / Pocket’s founder: nateweiner: Today we launched a brand new version of Read It Later (now named Pocket). As a part of this update we have made all of our apps free.This is a big change to how we’ve operated in the past and I wanted to give some more insight…
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The Hot Dog Shooter & the Takeout Bag: A Portable Content Manifesto
Read It Later users keep content on their tablets and phones for an average of 96 hours after they’ve saved it. What does that say about the lifespan of content and how we value it? The other night I had this nightmare that I was trapped in a hot-dog eating contest. It was an extreme…
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longreads: Coming Wednesday, Jan. 25! New York magazine and Longreads present: “Behind the Longreads,” featuring Dan P. Lee, Jessica Pressler, Wesley Yang and New York Editor-in-Chief Adam Moss. Housing Works Bookstore Cafe Manhattan, 7 pm, Free
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Shifting reading habits boost Read It Later in 2011
nateweiner: Had the pleasure of meeting Om a few weeks ago. Great conversation. Great guy.Honored to have him write about us. Nice piece from GigaOm. Also: Read It Later founder Nate Weiner is now on Tumblr. Go follow him! Shifting reading habits boost Read It Later in 2011
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Longreads: Writer Logan Sachon: My Top Longreads of 2011
longreads: Logan Sachon writes for The Awl and other places also. She lives in Virginia. *** • “Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library,” by Maria Bustillos (The Awl) This piece just blew me away, and I’m not even a DFW devotee (I’ve yet to tackle any of his… I have Logan to thank for…