Tag: longreads
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Longreads Member Exclusive: The Miracle Man
longreads: Our latest Exclusive comes from Andrew Rice, a contributing editor to New York magazine whose work has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic and Bloomberg Businessweek. He’s been featured on Longreads many times in the past, and we’re excited to feature “The… Super story from Andrew Rice about what…
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Serials: So Hot Right Now
Still lost in the ongoing discussion about long-form storytelling being “back” is one (of many!) important questions we should ask: What should long-form storytelling look like when it is native to the web? For Longreads, the vast majority of stories shared within our community were first created for (and funded by) print publications—then, later, they’re…
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Longreads Member Exclusive: How the Light Gets In
longreads: Our latest Exclusive comes from author Elissa Schappell, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and co-founder and editor at large of Tin House, which is where she published “How the Light Gets In”—a story about a life changed by seizures. See it here. p.s. You can support Longreads—and get more exclusives like this—by becoming a member.…
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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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My first official data report for Read It Later: Who Are the ‘Most Read’ Authors? This will be the first of many pieces looking at how, in the era of the “read later” button, we can redefine what it means to be a popular author or publisher. We now have a much more well-rounded view…
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Chris Jones: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
At least one of Chris Jones’s stories will be on my own Top 5. longreads: Chris Jones is a writer at large for Esquire. (His stories are on many of your Top Fives.) He’s currently blogging at My Second Empire. David Grann: The Mark of a Masterpiece, The New Yorker, July 12, 2010 Just a…
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Supposedly ‘Even Flow’ is about homelessness—see the lines about ‘a pillow made of concrete’ and ‘ceilings few and far between’—but I hated that the chorus didn’t tell you what ‘even flow’ was supposed to be, and the line about thoughts arriving like butterflies sounded like a bad Natalie Merchant lyric. Still, the video for ‘Even…
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I guess I had that coming.
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At first, Salazar’s scheme was bizarrely complex. Among other things, he arranged for the design of a sealed house near the Nike campus in which athletes would sleep in rooms with varied amounts of oxygen. He also used an obscure computer program from Russia that claimed to measure an athlete’s fatigue level using electrodes that…
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Well, this is wonderful. @longreads made the NY Mag Approval Matrix.