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A Fish So Coveted People Have Smuggled, Kidnapped, and Killed For It
Emily Voigt | Scribner | May 2016 | 18 minutes (4,498 words) The excerpt below is adapted from The Dragon Behind the Glass, by Emily Voigt. This story is recommended by Longreads editor Mike Dang. *...
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Little Government in the Big Woods
Mary Pilon | Longreads | July 2016 | 8 minutes (2,061 words) Last May, and much to the disappointment of many “Little House on the Prairie” fans, Melissa Gilbert announced that she would be ending...
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The Mystery of Carl Miller
Sarah Miller | Longreads | July 2016 | 10 minutes (2,438 words) There’s an Ancestry.com ad in my Twitter feed: “What Does Your Last Name Say About You?” It follows me everywhere, as if it can sense my...
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The Case for More Female Cops
Sarah Smarsh | Longreads | July 2016 | 20 minutes (4,886 words) Betty was in the bathroom dyeing her platinum hair black while the kids played with her teenage sister down the hall. Betty had...
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The Miseducation of John Muir
Justin Nobel | Atlas Obscura | July 2016 | 14 minutes (3,431 words) Our latest Exclusive is a new story by Justin Nobel, co-funded by Longreads Members and published by Atlas Obscura. It’s quite...
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Letter to an Ex, on the Occasion of His Suicide
Masha Hamilton | Longreads | August 2016 | 24 minutes (5,851 words) It was morning, after another rough night. You’d barely slept on the floor in Bill’s cave of an apartment, where you’d spent the...
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Mass Extinction: The Early Years
Ashley Dawson | Extinction: A Radical History | OR Books | July 2016 | 13 minutes (3,487 words) Below is an excerpt from Extinction: A Radical History, by Ashley Dawson, who argues that contemporary...
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Cyberchondria: D.I.Y. Diagnosis in Overdrive
Barry Newman | Longreads | August 2016 | 11 minutes (2,698 words) My headache arrived just after April Fools’ Day, moving into orbit around my right eye, with side trips to the back of my neck. It...
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The House Where You Live Forever
Amelia Schonbek | Longreads and The Awl | August 2016 | 28 minutes (7,065 words) This story was co-published with The Awl and funded by Longreads Members. On a bright afternoon in October 2013,...
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The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion
Rob Tannenbaum | Longreads | August 2016 | 63 minutes (15,868 words) On the night she was murdered, Stella Walsh was in a great mood. The Cleveland resident spent much of December 4, 1980, thinking...
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The Mask of Deception: The Ultimate Test to My Recovery From Porn Addiction
Benjamin Obler | Longreads | August 2016 | 24 minutes (5,908 words) When we first talked, it was on tenuous terms. That is, both telling implicit lies. My lie was wearing a leather jacket and smoking...
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The Secret Nazi Attempt to Breed the Perfect Horse
Elizabeth Letts | The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis | Ballantine Books | August 2016 | 19 minutes (4,567 words) The excerpt below is...
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‘Exposure Is Bullshit’: Who Should Get Paid for Live Storytelling Events?
Rick Paulas | Longreads | August 2016 | 12 minutes (2,986 words) The storytelling show Mortified was created in 2002 by Dave Nadelberg, and the show has a clever angle: Performers share “their most...
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The Icy Elegance of Arthur Ashe … And the Passion of Muhammad Ali
Stephen Tignor | Longreads | August 2016 | 22 minutes (5,613 words) Our latest Exclusive is a new story by Stephen Tignor, co-funded by Longreads Members and published in Racquet magazine’s premiere...
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How the Brontës Came Out As Women
Claire Harman | Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart | Knopf | March 2016 | 32 minutes (7,925 words) The excerpt below is adapted from Claire Harman’s biography of Charlotte Brontë. It tells the story of...
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The Pleasures of Protest: Taking on Gentrification in Chinatown
Esther Wang | Longreads | August 2016 | 17 minutes (4,223 words) On a cold night in the early winter months of 2007, I was with a group of tenants — all Latino and Chinese immigrant families —...
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Revisiting the Ghosts of Attica
Tom Robbins | The Marshall Project | September 2016 | 22 minutes (3,722 words) This story was co-published with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice...
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Girlhood Gone: Notes from the New Nashville
Susannah Felts | Longreads | September 2016 | 18 minutes (4,439 words) At 18, I knew only that I wanted out. Out of Nashville, Tennessee, out of the whole Southeast. Free from region. If you’d asked,...
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Maria Bustillos | Longreads | September 2016 | 40 minutes (10,049 words) I. In the first days of 2014, in her senior year at Oberlin and just a few days before the winter term she’d arranged to spend...
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Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos—But Its Star is...
George Pendle | Atlas Obscura | September 2016 | 17 minutes (4,425 words) Our latest Exclusive is a new story by George Pendle, co-funded by Longreads Members and published by Atlas Obscura. In a...
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