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The Craft of Poetry: A Semester with Allen Ginsberg
Elissa Schappell | The Paris Review | 1995 | 63 minutes (15,685 words) We’re excited to reprint Elissa Schappell‘s essay, “The Craft of Poetry: A Semester with Allen Ginsberg.” The piece was first...
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Graves of the Dead
Ken Otterbourg | The New New South | April 2015 | 10 minutes (2,439 words) After starting in Pittsburgh, the Ohio River heads north and then quickly loops south, as if realizing the error in its...
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The Wandering Years
Lawrence Ferlinghetti | The American Scholar | Summer 2015 | 23 minutes (4,685 words) Our latest Longreads Exclusive is a series of travel journal entries adapted from poet and painter Lawrence...
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The Walkable Multiverse According to Charles Jencks
Alina Simone | Atlas Obscura | September 2015 | 23 minutes (5,747 words) Our latest Exclusive is a new story by Alina Simone, co-funded by Longreads Members and published by Atlas Obscura. * * * Last...
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Bird Man
Eva Holland | Longreads | February 2017 | 10 minutes (2641 words) Noah Strycker spotted the first bird before I made it from the parked car to the edge of the marsh. “It’s a rough-legged hawk,” he...
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It Was Like Nothing Else in My Life Up to Now
Josh Roiland | The Digital Press | May 9th 2017 | 19 minutes (5,354 words) This essay first appeared in Haunted by Waters: The Future of Memory and the Red River Flood of 1997 published by The Digital...
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As religious rules around cremation have relaxed, more and more Americans are turning to cremation as a cost effective way to deal with the dead. At Popular Mechanics, Caren Chesler tours Rosehill...
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America’s Post-Frontier Hangover
Will Meyer | Longreads | March 2019 | 17 minutes (4,498 words) In the small New England town where I live, Hadley, Massachusetts, the common lies a few miles from the mishmash of corporate chains that...
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Putin’s Rasputin
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