Judge a Book Not By its Gender
Lisa Whittington-Hill | Longreads | May, 2021 | 29 minutes (7,916 words) I blame Drew Barrymore for two things: the amount of money I have spent on celebrity memoirs and an unfortunate attempt to dye...
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Happy is a Relative State
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Renée K. Nicholson | Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness | May 2021 1,977 words (7 minutes) ***...
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Even the Steam Had a Shadow
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Natasha Pulley | The Kingdoms | May 2021 | 1516 words (6 minutes) *** 1 Londres, 1898 (ninety-three years...
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Holiday Gift Guide: 8 Books We Excerpted on Longreads in 2021
Looking for a gift for the reader in your life? Here are eight books we featured on Longreads this year: the memoir of a teen environmentalist, an essay collection on dance and illness, a refugee...
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‘Some Things Never Leave You’: Christian Livermore on Poverty’s Indelible Marks
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Christian Livermore | We Are Not Okay | October 2022 | 5,780 words (21 minutes) “Perhaps home is not a place...
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“I Am In Between”: A Q&A with Sorayya Khan
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Sorayya Khan is a Pakistani-Dutch writer. Her new book, We Take Our Cities with Us, is a multicultural...
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I Remember the Bookstore
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Jason Guriel | On Browsing | November 2022 | 4,361 words (15 minutes) Let’s browse a bookstore—a Platonic one,...
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We Got the Beat
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Lisa Whittington-Hill | Longreads | January 16, 2024 | 16 minutes (2,000 words) We’re delighted to publish an...
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Letter from Manhattan 2
Thomas Dai | Longreads | January 21, 2025 | 5,159 words (19 minutes)This is an excerpt from Take My Name But Say It Slow by Thomas Dai, published by W.W. Norton and on sale January 21, 2025. It was...
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Around The Pit
Nicholas Triolo| Longreads | April 24, 2025 | 6,533 words (24 minutes)This is an excerpt from The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere by Nicholas Triolo, which will be published by Milkweed...
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