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Friendship Is Complicated
Maria Bustillos | Longreads | January 2015 | 15 minutes (3,706 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) Lauren Faust, the creative genius behind the hit cartoon series My Little Pony:...
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Long Live Grim Fandango
Jon Irwin | Kill Screen | January 2015 | 17 minutes (4,253 words) Below is a new Longreads Exclusive from Kill Screen, the videogame arts and culture magazine. Writer Jon Irwin goes inside the...
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The Rise of Joan of Arc: How a Visionary Peasant Girl Defied a Dress Code and...
Kathryn Harrison | Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured | Doubleday | October 2014 | 29 minutes (7,119 words) Below is an excerpt from the book Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured, by Kathryn Harrison, as...
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Taking the Slow Road: An Interview with Author Katherine Heiny
Sari Botton | Longreads | February 2015 | 14 minutes (3,683 words) Ed. note: Katherine Heiny will be in conversation with Sari Botton at McNally Jackson in New York on Wednesday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m....
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‘It’s Yours’: A Short History of the Horde
Eva Holland | Longreads | February 2015 | 10 minutes (2,458 words) Ta-Nehisi Coates started blogging for The Atlantic on August 4, 2008. His first post was titled “Sullivan… McArdle… Fallows…...
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How a Great American Theatrical Family Produced the 19th Century’s Most...
Nora Titone | My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy | The Free Press | October 2010 | 41 minutes (11,244 words) Below is an...
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Glamorous Crossing: How Pan Am Airways Dominated International Travel in the...
Meredith Hindley | Longreads | February 2015 | 18 minutes (4,383 words) In August 1936, Americans retreated from the summer heat into movie theaters to watch China Clipper, the newest...
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Giving Visibility to the Invisible: An Interview With Photographer Ruddy Roye
Lucy McKeon | Longreads | February 2015 | 18 minutes (4,489 words) With over 100,000 Instagram followers, photographer Ruddy Roye came of age in Jamaica, and has lived in New York City since 2001. He...
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The House Made of Sugar
Silvina Ocampo | The House Made of Sugar: a short story from the collection Thus Were Their Faces | NYRB Classics | January 2015 | 13 minutes (3,235 words) Our latest Longreads Exclusive is a newly...
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A Resourceful Woman
Jeff Sharlet | Longreads | February 2015 | 24 minutes (5,994 words) Mary Mazur, 61, set off near midnight to buy her Thanksgiving turkey. She took her plant with her. “He doesn’t like to be left...
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Think of This as a Window: Remembering the Life and Work of Maggie Estep
Sari Botton | Longreads | February 2015 A year ago this month the world lost an incredible talent. Maggie Estep, a great writer—and before that, slam poet/performance artist—died suddenly, a month...
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The Art of Authenticity: A Conversation with PostSecret’s Frank Warren
Ben Huberman | Longreads | February 2015 | 13 minutes (3,354 words) For the past ten years Frank Warren has been collecting and publishing other people’s anonymous secrets, sent via postcard, on his...
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A Conversation With Writer Colm Tóibín on the ‘Close Imagining’ of Fiction
Jessica Gross | Longreads | February 2015 | 17 minutes (4,283 words) The Irish writer Colm Tóibín has written eight novels, two books of short stories, and multiple works of nonfiction. His latest...
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The Holy Junk Heap
Adina Hoffman & Peter Cole | Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza | Schocken | April 2011 | 18 minutes (4,838 words) Below is an excerpt from the book Sacred Trash, by Adina...
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Kitchen Rhythm: A Year in a Parisian Pâtisserie
Frances Leech | Vintage | March 2013 | 14 minutes (3378 words) The Longreads Exclusive below is based on Frances Leech’s ebook of the same name, published in 2013 by Vintage UK. *** To make chocolate...
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‘A Taste of Power’: The Woman Who Led the Black Panther Party
Elaine Brown | A Taste of Power, Pantheon | 1992 | 30 minutes (7,440 words) Elaine Brown is an American prison activist, writer, lecturer and singer. In 1968, she joined the Los Angeles chapter of...
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The Bomb in the Bag
Jack El-Hai | Longreads | March 2015 | 14 minutes (3,509 words) A New York City stockbroker named M. Leopold was working in his office at 84 Broadway shortly after noon on December 4, 1891, when he...
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A Very Naughty Little Girl
Rose George | Longreads | March 2015 | 21 minutes (5,358 words) She was a name on a plaque and a face on a wall. I ate beneath her portrait for three years and paid it little attention except to...
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Interview with a Torturer
Rithy Panh with Christophe Bataille | Translated by John Cullen | The Elimination: A survivor of the Khmer Rouge confronts his past and the commandant of the killing fields | Other Press | February...
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The Twisted History of Your Favorite Board Game
Jessica Gross | Longreads | March 2015 | 16 minutes (4,113 words) Mary Pilon spent several years reporting on finance for the Wall Street Journal, and several more reporting on sports for The New...
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