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Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles, and Freelance Writer Nick Chrastil share what they've been reading and working on.
This week:
[1:01] “Your Honor, Can I Tell The Whole Story?” (Nick Chrastil, December 2019, The Atavist and The Lens)
[19:36] “Inside Wayne LaPierre’s Battle for the N.R.A.” (Danny Hakim, December 18, 2019, The New York Times Magazine)
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Longreads Founder Mark Armstrong speaks with award winning writer, entrepreneur, and activist Jonathan Mooney, author of the book Normal Sucks, about ways in which we can reorient how we think about diversity in education and how to reframe demoralizing systems of learning that aren't working for differently abled children.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta with help from Mark Armstrong and Jason Oberholtzer.
Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music is written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Contributing Editor Aaron Gilbreath, Essays Editor Sari Botton, and The Rumpus Editor-in-Chief Marisa Siegel share what they've been reading and working on this week.
This week:
[5:06] “This is small talk purgatory': what Tinder taught me about love.” (CJ Hauser, December 7, 2019, The Guardian)
[12:56] “Spines of the Finwomen.” (Lidia Yuknavitch, October 31, 2019, The Rumpus)
[20:50] Aaron’s Music Corner
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Cody Dalton Eyre, a 20-year-old Alaskan Native, was having a mental health crisis on Christmas Eve, 2017 when his mother called 911 for help. So why did police officers end up shooting and killing him?
Writer Wudan Yan and Longreads' Editor In Chief Mike Dang discuss the reporting of Anyone's Son, published this week on Longreads.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta with help from Mike Dang and Jason Oberholtzer. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music is written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Head of Audience Catherine Cusick and Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles share what they've been reading and working on this week.
This week:
[2:40] “He’s a Liar, a Con Artist and a Snitch. His Testimony Could Soon Send a Man to His Death.” (Pamela Colloff, December 4, 2019, ProPublica)
[2:56] “Worked at Vice Then Went to Jail”: How a Bunch of Canadian Hipsters Wound Up Smuggling Cocaine (and Getting Caught)” (Kate Knibbs, December 2, 2019, The Ringer)
[29:00] Sign up to get email updates from Pamela Colloff about her investigation into jailhouse informants and how she reported the story.
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Devorah Heitner reflects on the ways she is reclaiming her relationship to her own body while grappling with the legacy of her mother’s poor body image and early death.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
To reflect on her three-part Longreads series Under The Influence, Culture Columnist Soraya Roberts continues to explore how influencers operate in the online ecosystem, how identity fits in, and what has changed over the last decade, in conversation with influencers-and-more Jakiya Brown and Akilah Hughes.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer with help from Garrett Crowe and Soraya Roberts. Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music is written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
In our first "Longwrites" discussion of the pieces which take years to write, Longreads' Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles, sits down with James Williamson and Tim Requarth to discuss time spent rendering tales about relatives.
A few bits of further reading/viewing:
- How Stanislavski Reinvented the Craft of Acting
- "Be Yourself" Is Terrible Advice — Leah Finnegan
- Trump’s Role in Son’s Failed Deal May Yield First Test for a State Regulator — Barry Meier
- A Disciplined, Charging Army — Frances FitzGerald
- An Odd Kind Of Fame — Malcolm Macmillan
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music is written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, Contributing Editor Danielle Jackson, Culture Columnist Soraya Roberts, and The Believer’s Deputy and Co-Interview Editor Niela Orr share what they've been reading and working on.
This week:
[01:31] Longreads’ upcoming music series.
[05:02] A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston by Robyn Crawford
[25:19] I Was the Fastest Girl in America, Until I Joined Nike. (Mary Cain, November 7, 2019, The New York Times)
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Longreads Contributing Editor Danielle Jackson speaks with writer and creator of the Writing Our Lives workshop Vanessa Martir about Writing The Mother Wound, a series of essays they co-produced on mothering. The two also share excerpts from the series, read by their authors.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta, with help from Danielle Jackson and Jason Oberholtzer. Mixed and scored with original music by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music is written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Contributing Editor Aaron Gilbreath, and visiting Nieman Foundation fellow & NYT Styles Internet culture reporter Taylor Lorenz share what they've been reading and working on.
This week:
[01:00] Some musings on TikTok, Vine & Instagram
[03:50] ‘OK Boomer’ Marks the End of Friendly Generational Relations (Taylor Lorenz, October 29, 2019, The New York Times)
[09:30] What Makes a Person Patriotic? (Jacqui Shine, October 28, 2019, The New York Times Magazine)
[19:06] Aaron's Nerdy Music Segment
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We might remember famous scandals like the Amy Fisher case or the murder of Kitty Genovese. But take a closer look, and the story is very different. Longreads founder Mark Armstrong speaks with the hosts of the “You’re Wrong About...” podcast to understand why.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mark Armstrong and Jason Oberholtzer. Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles, Books Editor Dana Snitzky, and Culture Columnist Soraya Roberts share what they've been reading and working on.
This week:
[0:30] R.I.P. Deadspin
[10:40] “I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb” (Allie Conti, October 31, 2019, Vice)
[19:35] “Whitney Houston’s Longtime Confidante Breaks Her Silence” (Jon Caramanica, November 7, 2019, The New York Times)
[23:14] “Under The Influence: White Lies” (Soraya Roberts, October 2019, Longreads)
[29:51] Profiling Wakefield Press
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Sara Eckel surprised her agnostic parents by becoming a born-again Christian at age 10. It was the first of many attempts to believe.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Essays Editor Sari Botton, and Contributing Editor Danielle Jackson share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[2:18] “Who Gave You the Right to Tell that Story?” (Lila Shapiro, October 30 2019, Vulture)
[5:35] "How To Unlearn Everything"(Alexander Chee, October 30 2019, Vulture)
[8:08] “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction” (Zadie Smith, October 24, 2019, The New York Review Of Books)
[16:02] “Ten Years Ago, I Called Out David Letterman. This Month, We Sat Down to Talk.” (Nell Scovell, October 30, 2019, Vanity Fair)
[25:15] "Is it time for American cities to stop growing?" (Vinnie Rotondaro, October 14, 2019, Vox)
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Fact-Checkers assemble!
Sean Lavery, Director of Research for newyorker.com joins Longreads Head of Fact-Checking, Matt Giles, and Longreads Fact-Checker Samantha Schuyler to talk about the pressures of publishing online and how The New Yorker runs its fact-checking operation.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure. Produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Recorded at Fortunate Horse studio in Brooklyn NY.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Contributing Editor Aaron Gilbreath, and Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[1:51] “The Writer as Influencer” (Allegra Hobbs, October 10, 2019, Study Hall)
[12:20] "Everything He Wrote Was Good" (James K. Williamson, September 3, 2019, Oxford American)
[28:15] "Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free" (Justin Elliott & Paul Kiel, October 17, 2019, ProPublica)
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This week, we are rebroadcasting Longreads Books Editor Dana Snitzky's conversation with with Ibram X. Kendi, New York times Best Selling Author and 2019 Guggenhiem Fellow.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Whitney Donaldson & Jason Oberholtzer with help from Ian Riedel and Dana Snitzky. Mixed by Michael Simonelli. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, and Essays Editor Sari Botton share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[0:51] “Why You Never See Your Friends Anymore.” (Judith Shulevitz, November 2019, The Atlantic)
[9:21] “Ronan Farrow Depicts a Chilling Cover-up at NBC.” (Rebecca Traister, October 11, 2019, The Cut)
[16:16] "The 'Glass Floor' Is Keeping America's Richest Idiots At The Top." (Michael Hobbes, October 13, 2019, HuffPost)
correction: @19:15 — A reference to One Night at Mount Sinai* is mis-attributed to Rebecca Traister, rather than Lisa Miller.
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A daughter recounts her family’s worst day, through her mother’s eyes.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Head of Audience Catherine Cusick, Longreads Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles, and Contributing Editor Aaron Gilbreath share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[1:13] "An Unseen Victim of the College Admissions Scandal: The High School Tennis Champion Aced Out by a Billionaire Family." (Daniel Golden and Doris Burke, October 8, 2019, ProPublica)
[14:02] “This economist has a plan to fix capitalism. It's time we all listened.” (João Medeiros, October 8, 2019, Wired)
[23:00] “Signs and Wonders” (J.D. Daniels, May 1, 2017, Esquire)
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This week, because it is feeling very timely, a rebroadcast of our very first episode.
Living With Dolly Parton is an audio adaptation of one of Longreads' most read features of 2018, written by Jessica Wilkerson.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure. Produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta, with help from Krista Stevens and Whitney Donaldson. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli. Recorded by Andrew Harper at The University of Mississippi.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Longreads Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles, and Contributing Editor Danielle Jackson share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[01:12] “The Nightmare in the Bahamas Is Far From Over” (Zachary Fagenson, October 1, 2019, Miami New Times)
[03:38] "Hurricane Dorian Was a Climate Injustice" (Bernard Ferguson, September 12, 2019, The New Yorker)
[10:43] “Climate Messaging: A Case for Negativity” (Rebecca McCarthy, September 2019, Longreads)
[12:41] “The Balloon Boy Hoax—Solved!.” (Robert Sanchez, October 2019, 5280)
[19:12] “The Music of “Hustlers” and the Soaring, Stupid National Mood Circa 2008” (Jia Tolentino, September 27, 2019,The New Yorker)
[22:33] “Place: The Loop, Houston” (Bryan Washington, October 1, 2019, The Believer)
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On Monday, September 23rd, Longreads held our 10th anniversary celebration at Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan. We wish you all could have been there! So, we are sharing the full audio from the event.
Join us as we celebrate a milestone and showcase some amazing readers.
Featuring...
Morgan Jerkins, author of the New York Times bestseller, This Will Be My Undoing. Her short form work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, ELLE, and The Cut, among many others.
Laura Lippman, award-winning crime novelist and New York Times bestseller. She has published more than 20 novels, a novella, a short story anthology and a book for children. Her latest book is Lady in the Lake, a crime novel set in 1960s Baltimore.
Choire Sicha, editor for the Styles desk of The New York Times, and co-founder of The Awl in 2009. Author of Very Recent History.
Anne Thériault, Toronto-based writer whose bylines can be found all over the internet, including at the Guardian, the London Review of Books and, obviously, Longreads. She truly believes that your favorite Tudor wife says more about you than your astrological sign, and will be happy to do a one-on-one consult with you on that. She is currently raising one child and three unruly cats.
Elisabet Velasquez, a Boricua Writer from Bushwick, Brooklyn, whose work has been featured in Muzzle Magazine, Winter Tangerine, Centro Voces, Latina Magazine, We Are Mitú, Tidal, and more. Velasquez is a 2017 Poets House Fellow and the 2017 winner of Button Poetry Video Poetry Contest. Her work is forthcoming in Martín Espadas' anthology What Saves Us: Poems Of Empathy and Outrage In The Age Of Trump. She is currently working on her memoir.
Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Longreads Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles, and Contributing Editor Aaron Gilbreath share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[0:45]“Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?” (Adam Entous, July 1, 2019, The New Yorker)
[13:33] “Dark Crystals.” (Tess McClure, September 17, 2019, The Guardian)
[21:26] “These 5 Places Tried Bold Political Experiments. Did They Work?” (Amelia Lester, Jill Filipovic, Todd N. Tucker, Astra Taylor, Ruairi Arrieta-Kenna, September 21, 2019, Politico)
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Leslie Jamison's new essay collection Make It Scream, Make It Burnis out today! Longreads Essays Editor Sari Botton speaks with Jamison about her new release and much, much more.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure. Produced by Mike Rugnetta, with help from Sari Botton.
Mixed by Michael Simonelli. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Essays Editor Sari Botton, and Culture Columnist Soraya Roberts share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[6:52] “The Wing Has $118 Million in Funding, Superfans Like Meryl Streep, and Plenty of Skeptics. It's Just Getting Started.” (Christine Lagorio-Chafkine, October 2019, Inc.)
[17:28] “Who Would I Be Without Instagram?.” (Tavi Gevinson, September 16, 2019, The Cut)
[26:00] “Revolution on the Installment Plan.” (Jessa Crispin, Sept/Oct 2019, The Baffler)
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When Naz Riahi was 9, she escaped tragedy in Iran only to be confronted by a cruel new world in America. Food became her solace and her tool for assimilating.
Produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta, with help from Sari Botton.
Mixed and scored with original music by Mike Rugnetta and Michael Simonelli.
Recorded at Fortunate Horse studios in Brooklyn.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
This episode contains clips from:
- بزم دوم از کنسرت ولشدگان - بلوربنفش
- Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker (suite), Op. 71a
Contributing Editor Aaron Gilbreath, Books Editor Dana Snitzky, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[01:05] “I Was Caroline Calloway.” (Natalie Beach, September 10, 2019, The Cut)
[15:12] “What College Admissions Offices Really Want.” (Paul Tough, September 10, 2019, The New York Times Magazine)
[28:28] “The Wonder Valley Desert of Gram Parsons.” (Sarah Goodyear, May 31, 2018, Off Assignment)
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Matthew Komatsu reads his essay After the Tsunami.
After the 2011 disaster, which killed his grandmother and laid waste to his ancestral home, Matthew, an American, journeys to Japan to search for what the tsunami left in its wake.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Michael Simonelli and Kelly Stout. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Scored with original compositions by Pax. A full soundtrack to this episode, with extended tracks, is available on Soundcloud.
Mixed by Michael Simonelli. Recorded in Surreal Studios, Anchorage.
Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[04:35] “Strike with the Band” (Kate Wagner, September 1, 2019, The Baffler)
[13:40] “King of Pop.” (Willy Staley, August 29, 2019, The New York Times Magazine)
[20:58] “Twelve Words.” (Brian Trapp, Sept / Oct, 2019, Kenyan Review)
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In this, the second episode of What Are You Reading?, Dana Snitzky speaks with Ibram X. Kendi, New York times Best Selling Author and 2019 Guggenhiem Fellow, about ... what he is reading!
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Whitney Donaldson & Jason Oberholtzer with help from Ian Riedel and Dana Snitzky.
Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Essays Editor Sari Botton, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[00:39] “The Last Popeyes Chicken Sandwich in America” (Megan Reynolds, August 28, 2019, Jezebel)
[09:48] “Addicted to Fines.” (Mike Maciag, September 2019, Governing)
[21:35] “Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience.” (Andrew Marantz, August 19, 2019, The New Yorker)
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Longreads Senior Editor Kelly Stout speaks with Rose Eveleth about Rose's most recent piece in Longreads, which examines what a 19th-century scammer can teach us about women, lying, and economic boom-and-bust cycles.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure.
Produced by Mike Rugnetta, with help from Jason Oberholtzer. Mixed by Michael Simonelli. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Longreads Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[3:20] “Neil Young’s Lonely Quest to Save Music.” (David Samuels, August 20, 2019, The New York Times Magazine)
[16:58] “The Quickening. ” (Leslie Jamison, September 2019, The Atlantic)
[28:45] “How the Unchecked Power of Judges Is Hurting Poor Texans.” (Neena Satija, August 19, 2019, Texas Monthly)
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Longreads Sports Columnist Britni de la Cretaz and Head Of Fact-Checking Matt Giles talk about the reporting behind Britni's new Longreads article, Flagrant Foul: Benching Teen Moms Before Title IX.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Whitney Donaldson and Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Joseph Fridman. Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Essays Editor Sari Botton, Contributing Editor Aaron Gilbreath, and Longreads Head of Fact-Checking Matt Giles share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[03:05] “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.” (Nikole Hannah-Jones, August 14, 2019, The New York Times Magazine)
[16:13] “Super Sad True Chef Story” (Samuel Ashworth, August 12, 2019, Eater)
[22:53] “The Rat Spill” (Sarah Gilman, August 13, Hakai Magazine)
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Longreads Essays Editor Sari Botton leads a discussion on pen names with her guests ... whom we will let introduce themselves however they so choose.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure. Produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta, with help from Sari Botton. Mixed by Michael Simonelli. Recorded at Fortunate Horse studio in Brooklyn NY.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Books Editor Dana Snitzky, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[03:12] “The Dark History Behind the Year’s Bestselling Debut Novel” (Laura Miller, July 30, 2019, Slate)
[12:40] “Elizabeth Warren’s Classroom Strategy” (Rebecca Traister, August 6, 2019, The Cut)
[23:29] “The Great Escape” (Rachel Sugar, August 7, 2019, The Goods, by Vox)
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In adopting outerwear worn by the men who came before him, Aram Mrjoian considers his childhood misperceptions of traditional masculinity in his essay "Bearing the Weight of My Grandfathers’ Old Clothes."
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta, with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Mike Rugnetta and Michael Simonelli.
Recorded at Eternal Stellar Sounds in Tallahassee Florida.
Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Essays Editor Sari Botton, and Contributing Editor Aaron Gilbreath share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
“Broken Teeth and All” (Olivia A. Cole, July 23, Gay Magazine)
“Alan Dershowitz, Devil's Advocate” (Connie Bruck, July 29, 2019, The New Yorker)
“On Silence (or, Speak Again)” (Elissa Bassist, July 2019, Longreads)
“One Night Wonder” (Isaac Butler, July 2019, Topic)
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Fact-Checkers assemble! Longreads Head of Fact-Checking, Matt Giles, leads a discussion on who and what we find credible. Joining Matt are Longreads Fact-Checkers Ethan Chiel and Samantha Schuyler, plus special guest Alex Yablon.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure. Produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta. Mixed by Michael Simonelli. Recorded at Fortunate Horse studio in Brooklyn NY.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Audience Editor Catherine Cusick, Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, and Senior Editor Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
[3:37] “Losing The News.” (Brent Cunningham, July 23, 2019, Pacific Standard)
[13:05] “The Crane Wife.” (CJ Hauser, July 16, 2019, The Paris Review)
[23:59] “The Teens Who Play Dead to Save Lives.” (Andy Wright, July 2019, Topic)
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Colin Dickey remembers a departed friend and a tree that won’t die.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Clips include:
- Siegfried, Fritz Lang
- Passacaglia in D Minor, Dieterich Buxtehude; performed by Mattias Eisenberg on the Silbermann Organ at St. Georgenkirche, Röthe (1994)
- Chaiyya Chaiyyam, A. R. Rahman; performing with the Berklee Indian Ensemble, October 24, 2014
- Die Winterreise No 5 Der Lindenbaum, Franz Schubert; performed by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Catherine Cusick, Krista Stevens and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads. This week:
Introduction: “This City is Killing Me” from Belt
THE NEUROLOGIST WHO HACKED HIS BRAIN—AND ALMOST LOST HIS MIND in Wired
Going Down the Pipes at Topic
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Bundyville Season Two is out!
Listen here to the first episode from season two of the award-winning podcast from Longreads, in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Then subscribe and listen to the rest of of the season, out now at Longreads.com/Bundyville
Sari Botton, Catherine Cusick, Aaron Gilbreath and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
The Battle of Grace Church at The Cut
New Coke Didn't Fail. It Was Murdered. from Mother Jones
Progressive Boomers Are Making It Impossible For Cities To Fix The Housing Crisis at HuffPost
A retired teacher found some seahorses off Long Beach. Then he built a secret world for them from the L.A. Times
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Marcia Aldrich and Jill Talbot read their essay These Rooms Alone, about a choice they both made about their respective pregnancies 20 years apart.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta with help from Jason Oberholtzer and Krista Stevens. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Mike Rugnetta and Michael Simonelli. Recorded at Barn Media Arts Studio on Bainbridge Island, WA by Bob Ross and at KNTU at the University at North Texas in Denton by Mark Lambert.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
In the premiere episode of What Are You Reading? Dana Snitzky speaks with Elizabeth Rush, author and the National Science Foundation’s 2019 Antarctic Artist and Writer, about ... what she is reading! This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Whitney Donaldson & Jason Oberholtzer with help from Dana Snitzky. Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed by Michael Simonelli. Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Catherine Cusick, Soraya Roberts and Sari Botton share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
- Hideous Men at The Cut
- Times Public Editor: Ignoring a scoop that’s not your own from Columbia Journalism Review
- Our Top Editor Revisits How We Handled E. Jean Carroll’s Allegations Against Trump at The New York Times
- If I Made $4 a Word, This Article Would be Worth $10,000 on Longreads
- Critics: Endgame on Longreads
- The Hiding Place: Inside The World's First Long-term Storage Facility for Highly Radioactive Nuclear Waste at Pacific Standard
- 'The Underland Is a Deeply Human Realm': Getting Down with Robert Macfarlane on Longreads
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Matthew Salesses reads his Longreads essay To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time, about how the loss of his wife lead him to a deep consideration of how we experience time.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta, with help from Sari Botton and Jason Oberholtzer. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Mike Rugnetta & Michael Simonelli. Recorded at The Sound Box in Cedar Rapids, IA
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Catherine Cusick, Aaron Gilbreath and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
How a Cash-Strapped Start-up Became the Internet’s Food-Nerd Utopia at Grub Street
The Strange Story of a Secret Literary Fellowship from The New Yorker
The Optics of Opportunity by Hafizah Geter
They Welcomed a Robot Into Their Family, Now They're Mourning Its Death at The Verge
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Catherine Cusick, and Kelly Stout talk with Aaron Gilbreath and Matt Giles about the joys and challenges of fatherhood. This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta. Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed by Michael Simonelli. Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Catherine Cusick, Mike Dang, Dana Snitzky and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
The I in We from New York Magazine
The Making of a YouTube Radical at The New York Times
There is nothing more depressing than “positive news” from The Outline
The Rise and Fall of the Bank Robbery Capital of the World at CrimeReads
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Reporters Annie Hylton and Malia Politzer speak with Longreads Senior Editor Krista Stevens about their new Longreads feature Caught Between Borders, which profiles challenges facing LGBTI asylum seekers in Africa.
Annie and Malia share interview clips from their reporting and give context for the piece with the story of Janet, who left Uganda to apply for asylum in the Netherlands after she and her girlfriend were discovered together.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Annie Hylton and Malia Politzer, with help from Whitney Donaldson, Jason Oberholtzer and Krista Stevens. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Michael Simonelli and Jason Oberholtzer.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Sari Botton, Aaron Gilbreath and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week: The Secret Oral History of Bennington:
Before, and After, the Jogger at The Cut
R. Kelly and the Damage Done in The New Yorker
Stephanie Montgomery told the police that she was raped at work, neither they nor her manager helped, so she sought justice her way. from The California Sunday Magazine
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Sari Botton, Michele Filgate, Danielle A. Jackson and Carina del Valle Schorske talk about what it's like to be both writers and editors, and how they have both written for and edited for each other.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta, with help from Jason Oberholtzer. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed by Michael Simonelli. Recorded at Fortunate Horse Studios in Brooklyn.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Catherine Cusick, Matt Giles, Krista Stevens and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
The Secret Oral History of Bennington: The 1980s' Most Decadent College from Esquire
‘The Hills’ Made Reality TV What It Is. Now It’s Back. at The New York Times Magazine
Lakers 2.0: The failed reboot of the NBA's crown jewel from ESPN
Shady Numbers And Bad Business: Inside The Esports Bubble at Kotaku
Canada’s saddest grow-op: My humiliating adventures in growing marijuana from The Globe And Mail
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Never eat pot chocolate on a third date, and other lessons about love. Jen Doll reads her Longreads essay Edible Complex.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta, with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Mike Rugnetta and Michael Simonelli. Jen’s Romcom rundown music is Action Movie Intro by Oymaldonado.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Kelly Stout, Mike Dang, Ethan Chiel and Aaron Gilbreath share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads. This week: • ‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers at The New York Times • How San Francisco broke America’s heart from The Washington Post • Separated by Design: How Some of America’s Richest Towns Fight Affordable Housing at CT Mirror • Impossible Foods’ rising empire of almost-meat from Engadget Produced by Longreads and Charts & Leisure.
Longreads Sports Columnist Britni de la Cretaz and Head Of Fact-Checking Matt Giles talk about Britni's new Longreads article, An Audience of Athletes: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Sports, and share some clips of her interview with Billie Jean King.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Matt Giles and Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Britni de la Cretaz. Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Sari Botton, Catherine Cusick and Krista Stevens share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
The Gen X package from the New York Times
He Trots On Air by Outside
The Curious History of Crap—From Space Junk to Actual Poop at Wired
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When a woman and her daughter moved in next door, Jaquira Díaz found her world was suddenly turned upside down.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Ethan Chiel, Catherine Cusick, Aaron Gilbreath and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me from the New York Times Magazine
Going Under at the Playboy Club at The New Republic
How America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery from The New York Times Magazine
The Race to Develop the Moon from The New Yorker
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Carina del Valle Schorske reads from her essay Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre (which published last month on Longreads) about a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.
Carina is then joined by the Longreads Editor Danielle A. Jackson for a conversation focusing on the piece.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta, with help from Danielle A. Jackson and Jason Oberholtzer. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by and Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Ethan Chiel, Catherine Cusick, Matt Giles and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence at The Cut
In Conversation: Anjelica Huston at Vulture
The Raisin Situation from The New York Times
The Big Business of Spring Water at Topic
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Marcia Aldrich and Jill Talbot read their essay Someone Called Mother, about the secret selfs their mothers maintained up to and beyond their deaths.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Whitney Donaldson and Krista Stevens. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Recorded at BARN Media Arts Studio and at KNTU at University of North Texas in Denton.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Sari Botton, Catherine Cusick and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week:
Farewell to Payless and its terrible, no good, very cheap, occasionally meaningful shoes at The Outline
The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret from The New York Time
The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona from The New Yorker
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Fact-Checkers assemble!
Longreads Head of Fact-Checking, Matt Giles, leads a discussion on sources — the unreliable ones, the hostile ones, the nervous ones and the ones one finds on Wikipedia.
Joining Matt are Longreads Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, Seyward Darby (Editor-in-Chief, The Atavist Magazine) and Longreads Fact-Checker Ethan Chiel.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure. Produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Catherine Cusick, Aaron Gilbreath, Krista Stevens and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
What’s Behind the Elective-Sobriety Trend at elemental
How a tiny endangered species put a man in prison at High Country News
Lost at Sea at Harpers
The Curious Tale of the Salish Sea Feet at Longreads
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Sophie Lucido Johnson reads her essay How Does a Person Lose Track of Their Diary?, appearing in an illustrated version on Longreads.com, in which diary found in a used bookstore sets Johnson on a path she could never have expected.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Recorded at BAM Studios in Chicago.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Aaron Gilbreath, Matt Giles, Danielle Jackson and Soraya Roberts share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week's conversation includes:
What Remains from The California Sunday Magazine
Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism at The Guardian
Privileged at The Players' Tribune
On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness at Longreads
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Maris Kreizman reads her essay "Cast by Chronic Illness Into a Limiting Role" about dreaming of performing arts camp and ending up homesick at diabetes camp instead.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Sari Botton, Catherine Cusick, Matt Giles and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.
This week's conversation includes:
Marriage: An Investigation at The Cut
The Creeping Capitalist Takeover of Higher Education at HuffPost
Heaven or High Water at Popula
The Baraboo Nazi Prom Photo Shocked The World. The City’s Response Shocked Its Residents. at BuzzFeed News
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Longreads Sports Columnist Britni de la Cretaz and Head Of Fact-Checking Matt Giles wanted to find out what happened to Becky Smith, the woman who was supposed to have become the first female professional jai alai player in the United States, but stopped playing during her peak in the 80's.
What they found when they called is that Becky Smith, now 54 years old, is back on the fronton and might be more important to the sport than ever.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta, with help from Britni de la Cretaz, Matt Giles and Whitney Donaldson. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Ethan Chiel, Catherine Cusick and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
Minda Honey reads her essay Woman of Color in Wide Open Spaces and then speaks with Essays Editor Sari Botton about the inspiration for her piece and her other writing on dating as a woman of color.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Sari Botton and Whitney Donaldson. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli. Sound design and scoring with original music by Mike Rugnetta and Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Catherine Cusick, Mike Dang, Aaron Gilbreath and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
Senior Editor Kelly Stout and Longreads Head of Research Matt Giles talk about Matt's new feature on Dan Stoddard, a Canadian bus driver in his late 30s pursuing his dream of playing professional basketball.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta with help from Matt Giles and Kelly Stout.
Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Catherine Cusick, Danielle Jackson and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
Dana Snitzky chats with Tori Telfer, host of the Criminal Broads podcast, about the rich history of research and speculation on the theory Jack The Ripper was a woman, plus all manner of other topics related to killers — serial, female and more.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer with help from Dana Snitzky and Christopher Sousa. Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Sari Botton, Catherine Cusick, Aaron Gilbreath and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
Author A.M. Homes reads her Fine Lines essay, An Introduction to Death, then sits down with Longreads Essays Editor Sari Botton to talk about her story collection, "Days of Awe," the strangeness of getting older but still feeling young, and what an odd dimension time is.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Whitney Donaldson and Jason Oberholtzer with help from Sari Botton and Michael Simonelli. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Ethan Chiel, Catherine Cusick and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
Jonathan Auping chats with Hanif Abdurraqib about his new book Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Whitney Donaldson with help from Dana Snitzky and Jason Oberholtzer. Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Mixed and scored with original music by Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' them music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Mike Dang, Aaron Gilbreath and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
A former teenage peep show girl looks back on a queer love story that began in New York’s notorious red-light district.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, written and read by Lily Burana. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Sari Botton, Whitney Donaldson and Mike Rugnetta.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Sari Botton, Catherine Cusick, Danielle Jackson and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
Take a deeper dive into David Gauvey Herbert's Longreads feature about counterfeit caviar in an unlikely corner of rural America.
David leads Longreads Audience Editor Catherine Cusick through interview tape he collected, a bit of caviar's rich history and a blow-by-blow of key moments in the story he reported.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Whitney Donaldson, Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Mark Armstrong, Catherine Cusick, Mike Dang and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
At 63, Michael Musto reveals how he keeps managing to add new chapters to the consistently unfolding story of his career.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure.
Hosted by Catherine Cusick. Produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Sari Botton and Mike Rugnetta. Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Sari Botton, Mike Dang, Aaron Gilbreath and Krista Stevens share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
Fact-Checkers assemble!
Longreads Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang leads a discussion on the state of facts in 2019 with Seyward Darby (Editor-in-Chief, The Atavist Magazine) and Longreads Fact-Checkers Ethan Chiel and Samantha Schuyler.
Catherine Cusick, Aaron Gilbreath, Krista Stevens and Kelly Stout nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
Writer & podcaster Doree Shafrir joins Essays Editor Sari Botton in conversation about her recent original Longreads essay, Dress You Up In My Love, in which she reflects on how Halloween changed for her after struggling with infertility.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta.
Longreads' them music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
Sari Botton, Catherine Cusick, Dana Snitzky and Michelle Weber nominate stories for the Top 5 Longreads of the week.
Living With Dolly Parton is an audio adaptation of one of Longreads' most read features of 2018, written by Jessica Wilkerson.
This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, written and read by Jessica Wilkerson. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.
Produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta, with help from Krista Stevens and Whitney Donaldson.
Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli. Recorded by Andrew Harper at The University of Mississippi.
Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.
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