Coming Wednesday, Jan. 25!
New York magazine and Longreads present: “Behind the Longreads,” featuring Dan P. Lee, Jessica Pressler, Wesley Yang and New York Editor-in-Chief Adam Moss.
Shifting reading habits boost Read It Later in 2011 →
Had the pleasure of meeting Om a few weeks ago. Great conversation. Great guy.
Honored to have him write about us.
Nice piece from GigaOm. Also: Read It Later founder Nate Weiner is now on Tumblr. Go follow him!
Longreads: Writer Logan Sachon: My Top Longreads of 2011 →
Logan Sachon writes for The Awl and other places also. She lives in Virginia.
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• “Inside David Foster Wallace’s Private Self-Help Library,” by Maria Bustillos (The Awl)
This piece just blew me away, and I’m not even a DFW devotee (I’ve yet to tackle any of his…
I have Logan to thank for introducing me to Dear Sugar this year, among (many) others.
Longreads: Rolling Stone's Doree Shafrir: My Top Longreads of 2011 →
Doree Shafrir is an editor at Rolling Stone, where she hangs out with the Misfits on a regular basis. She can also be found at doree.tumblr.com.
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When I went back into my Kindle and my Twitter and Tumblr and email and all the other places where I noted or saved especially…
My first official data report for Read It Later: Who Are the ‘Most Read’ Authors?
This will be the first of many pieces looking at how, in the era of the “read later” button, we can redefine what it means to be a popular author or publisher. We now have a much more well-rounded view of content and how it is valued by readers. Loyalty, longevity and depth all come into play here. Kind of exciting.
GQ's Sean Fennessey: My Top Longreads of 2011 →
Sean Fennessey is the editor of GQ.com. (See more stories on his Longreads page.)
I’ll try to follow a few guidelines for the sake of imagined objectivity, so, no friends; no GQ pieces; no pieces published before January 1, 2011; no stories pseudonymously submitted by my mom; no…
Sean sets the bar.
Our first Longreads Member perk: A digital subscription to the New York Review of Books
Last month we introduced the (completely optional) Longreads Membership, and we’ve been thrilled with the response so far. I wanted to personally thank everyone for their support and encouragement.
We’re also excited to announce the first official perk for our Longreads Members: a free, three-month digital subscription to the New York Review of Books.
The NYRB team—who have supported us from the beginning—are offering this perk to all current Longreads Members, as well as the next 100 people who purchase a one-year Longreads Membership.
We hope to continue offering occasional free perks to Longreads Members as a thank-you for your support of our service. It might be a digital subscription, like today’s perk, or it might just be something we think you’ll like because you have really great taste.
Thanks again.
Coming April 13th!
Rolling Stone and Longreads present: A night of long-form journalism.
Join us at Housing Works in NYC for a special panel with Rob Sheffield, Jeff Goodell, and more. Moderated by Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana.
Excited to team up with Doree and the RS team for this. Come join us!
#Longreads #List: Share Your Reading Mixtapes
December was an incredible month for the Longreads community. Thank you to everyone who has shared, discovered, Instapaper’ed and Flipboarded your favorite longreads. From the daily #longreads recommendations to the year-end “Top 5 Longreads of 2010” lists, you’re all proving that the desire for in-depth storytelling, online and offline, is strong—and here to stay.
Last month’s Top 5 lists also proved that everyone, regardless of reading habits, loves rankings and lists. As today’s David Carr/New York Times story points out—and as anyone who has ever mined the bookshelves of a friend, neighbor, or love interest can attest—there’s also something very personal about what we read and what they reveal about the person who shares them.
So… How about we keep this going?
INTRODUCING THE #LONGREADS #LIST
“Like a mixtape, for reading”
-Pick your 3-5 favorite longreads about a certain topic (“My Favorite Longreads About Cooking”), a place (“Longreads about Nicaragua”), an era (“My 3 Favorite Longreads about Late 1980s Hip-Hop Stars”) or a certain author or publisher (“My 5 Favorite Longreads from Sady Doyle”).
-Post the Longreads List on your blog, or email it to me (mark@longreads.com) if you’d like it featured on the Longreads Tumblr.
-When it’s ready, link to it on Twitter, using the tags #longreads #list. I’ll retweet the best ones.
RECOMMENDATIONS
-Longreads is an Instapaper-friendly establishment, so we prefer links to single-page articles that are free to read. If you have a story that requires a subscription or registration, that’s fine, but just remember that many people will expect a good ratio of free reading material, so make sure you’ve got a decent amount in there.
-Diversity is key: Look for stories that come from different sources and that don’t overlap with too many other recommendations. We all want to discover something new and interesting.
-It’s difficult for us to retweet link lists that span several successive tweets, so for now, post your list on your blog or Tumblr.
-Want Extra Credit? Put the reading time in the post or headline. (“Longreads About Squid Hunting: 2 Hours”) Longreads calculates reading time by taking the story word count and dividing by 250 (words per minute consumed by the average reader).
FINALLY…
We acknowledge: This assignment is more difficult than the year-end Top 5’s, so I’m not sure how many of you will accept this challenge. But a few of you have already tweeted great collections in the past (Julia Arthur, I’m looking at you), so this will help us formalize the process for sharing them.
Thanks, and happy longreading.
This guy from The Sing Off definitely doesn’t roll on Somer Shabbos.
That’s also why I voted for him.
