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Jesus Land: Our Longreads Member Pick
Julia Scheeres | Jesus Land | 2012 | 21 minutes (5,152 words) Download as a .mobi ebook (Kindle) Download as an .epub ebook (iBooks) * * * For this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we’re excited to share...
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Without Chief or Tribe: An Expat’s Guide to Having a Baby in Saudi Arabia
Nathan Deuel | Friday Was the Bomb | May 2014 | 21 minutes (5,178 words) For our latest Longreads Member Pick, we’re thrilled to share a full chapter from Friday Was the Bomb, the new book by Nathan...
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The House of Mondavi: How an American Wine Empire Was Born
Julia Flynn Siler | The House of Mondavi | 2007 | 14 minutes (3,328 words) For our latest Longreads Member Pick, we’re excited to feature an excerpt from The House of Mondavi, Julia Flynn Siler’s book...
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The Story of H.M.: The Amnesiac Who Profoundly Changed the Way We Think About...
Sam Kean | The Tale of Dueling Neurosurgeons | 2014 | 12 minutes (3,008 words) For this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we’re excited to share a story from The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, a new...
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The Skies Belong to Us: How Hijackers Created an Airline Crisis in the 1970s
Brendan I. Koerner | The Skies Belong to Us | 2013 | 25 minutes (6,186 words) ‘There Is No Way to Tell a Hijacker by Looking At Him’ When the FAA’s antihijacking task force first convened in February...
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Why Do So Many People Pretend to Be Native American?
Russell Cobb | This Land Press | August 2014 | 16 minutes (3,976 words) This Land PressFor this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we are thrilled to share a brand new essay from Oklahoma’s This Land Press,...
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Call It Rape
Margot Singer | The Normal School | 2012 | 23 minutes (5,683 words) The Normal SchoolThanks to Margot Singer and The Normal School for sharing this story with the Longreads community.Subscribe to The...
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Falling: Love and Marriage in a Conservative Indian Family
Debie Thomas | River Teeth | Summer 2013 | 17 minutes (4,194 words) River TeethFor this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we are thrilled to share an essay from Ashland, Ohio’s narrative nonfiction journal...
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Where the Spirit Meets the Bone: A Memoir by Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams, with Benjamin Hedin | Radio Silence | March 2014 | 11 minutes (2,690 words) Radio SilenceFor this week’s Longreads Member Pick, we are thrilled to share a first-time-ever memoir by...
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‘Mango, Mango!’ A Family, a Fruit Stand, and Survival on $4.50 a Day
Douglas Haynes | Orion | Summer 2014 | 22 minutes (5,391 words) OrionThis Longreads Exclusive comes from the latest issue of Orion magazine—subscribe to the magazine or donate for more great stories...
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Longreads Member Pick Named Finalist for Pen Center USA 2014 Literary Awards
We are very excited to announce that Jessica Wilbanks’ essay “On The Far Side of the Fire” has been named as a finalist for the Pen Center USA 2014 Literary Awards. Wilbanks’ essay was honored in Pen...
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How to Spell the Rebel Yell
Elena Passarello | The Normal School | 2010 | 14 minutes (3,470 words) The Normal SchoolOur latest Longreads Member Pick is a deep dive into the sounds of history, from Elena Passarello and The Normal...
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The Prodigal Prince: Richard Roberts and the Decline of the Oral Roberts Dynasty
Kiera Feldman | This Land Press | September 2014 | 34 minutes (8,559 words) This Land PressWe’re proud to present a new Longreads Exclusive from Kiera Feldman and This Land Press: How Richard Roberts...
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The Honey Hunters
Michael Snyder | Lucky Peach | Summer 2014 | 20 minutes (4,960 words) Lucky PeachOur latest Longreads Exclusive comes from Michael Snyder and Lucky Peach—a trip into the Sundarbans, where groups of...
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The Art of Arrival: Rebecca Solnit on Travel and Friendship
Rebecca Solnit | Orion | Summer 2014 | 20 minutes (4,780 words) OrionOur latest Longreads Exclusive comes from Rebecca Solnit and Orion magazine—subscribe to the magazine or donate for more great...
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Untangling the Knot: My Search for Democracy in the Modern Family
Sabine Heinlein | Longreads | October 28, 2014 | 16 minutes (3,966 words) Download .mobi (Kindle) Download .epub (iBooks) No one has assessed the family’s dark side quite as fittingly as R.D. Laing,...
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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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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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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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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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