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Interview: Maya Rao on Spending a Month Working as a Cashier in the Bakken
Western North Dakota—at the epicenter of the Bakken oil rush—has become a new Wild West of sorts, where fortunes are made, sought and lost with alarming speed. Thousands have been drawn to the Bakken...
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#Nightshift: Minneapolis
Excerpts from an Instagram essay, by Jeff Sharlet. See part one. * * * Ryan is working. He has brought out into the night—Minneapolis, a neighborhood called Dinkytown—a trash bag of packing peanuts, a...
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When Mitch McConnell Met Roger Ailes: An Early Lesson in Winning At All Costs
Alec MacGillis | The Cynic | September 2014 | 13 minutes (3,241 words) Below is an excerpt from The Cynic, a new book by The New Republic writer Alec MacGillis about Mitch McConnell, who was just...
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A Birth Story
Meaghan O’Connell | Longreads | Nov. 6, 2014 | 57 minutes (14,248 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) It was Monday, June 2nd, and I was wide awake at 6 a.m. Maybe to some of you...
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Interview: ‘Poor Teeth’ Writer Sarah Smarsh on Class and Journalism
Julia Wick | Longreads | November 7, 2014 | 11 minutes (2,674 words) “I am bone of the bone of them that live in trailer homes.” That’s the first line of Sarah Smarsh’s essay “Poor Teeth,” which...
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The Rise and Fall of John DeLorean
Suzanne Snider | Tokion | June/July 2006 | 12 minutes (2,918 words) This story by Suzanne Snider—which details the fantastical rise and fall of John DeLorean, a former titan of the American automotive...
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Escape from Jonestown
Julia Scheeres | A Thousand Lives | 26 minutes (6,304 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) For our latest Longreads Exclusive, we’re proud to share Julia Scheeres’ adaptation of her...
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It’s Time to Stop Saying ‘Drink the Kool-Aid’: Interview with Jonestown...
Mark Armstrong | Longreads | November 18, 2014 | 5 minutes (1,301 words) Thirty-six years ago, on Nov. 18, 1978, a charismatic preacher from San Francisco named Jim Jones led his followers into one...
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For the Public Good: The Shameful History of Forced Sterilization in the U.S.
Belle Boggs | The New New South | August 2013 | 62 minutes (15,377 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) We’re proud to present, for the first time online, “For the Public Good,” Belle...
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Interview: Former ‘Matilda’ Star Mara Wilson on Leaving Hollywood and...
Adele Oliveira | Longreads | Nov. 2014 | 15 minutes (3,798 words) In 1994, when she was seven years old, Mara Wilson appeared on The Today Show with Katie Couric to promote a remake of Miracle on 34th...
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Platinum: A Singer Visits a Women’s Prison
Thao Nguyen | Radio Silence | October 2014 | 6 minutes (1500 words) Radio SilenceOur latest Longreads Exclusive: A brief encounter between a singer and an inmate at a women’s prison. Thank you to Radio...
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When Mary Martin Was the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up
Ben Yagoda | Longreads | December 2014 | 12 minutes (3,094 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) One day early in 1954, Mary Martin and her husband, Richard Halliday, were driving on...
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This Is Living — an Exclusive from Loitering: New & Collected Essays by...
Charles D’Ambrosio | Loitering | November 2014 | 25 minutes (5,836 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) Loitering: New & Collected EssaysFor our latest Longreads Exclusive, we...
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The Gothic Life and Times of Horace Walpole
Carrie Frye | Longreads | December 2014 | 16 minutes (4,064 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) As a child, Horace Walpole frequently heard it said of himself that surely he would...
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The Cost
Rilla Askew | 2014 | 21 minutes (5,065 words) When my godson Trey was a toddler growing up in Brooklyn, every white woman who saw him fell in love with him. He was a beautiful child, sweet natured,...
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Autistic and Searching for a Home
Genna Buck | Maisonneuve Magazine | Winter 2014 | 28 minutes (7,101 words) MaisonneuveThis week we’re proud to feature a Longreads Exclusive from the new issue of Montreal’s Maisonneuve Magazine, about...
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A Meditation on Pain
Ira Sukrungruang | River Teeth | Fall 2014 | 15 minutes (3,767 words) River TeethFor this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we are thrilled to share an essay from Ashland, Ohio’s narrative nonfiction...
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Budd & Leni
Bruce Handy | Tin House | March 2013 | 26 minutes (6,452 words) They were fleeting and unlikely collaborators, for lack of a better word. He was a son of Jewish Hollywood royalty, she a Nazi fellow...
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Finding Stories in Familiar Territory: An Interview With Miranda July
Jessica Gross | Longreads | January 2015 | 14 minutes (3,540 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) Miranda July’s films, sculptures, books, and performance art pieces share not only...
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An Ex-Industrial Fisherman Rethinks His Job
Diane Ackerman | The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us | W. W. Norton & Company | September 2014 | 16 minutes (3,877 words) Below is an excerpt from the book The Human Age: The World Shaped By...
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