April 2012
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Nate Weiner: Why Read It Later/Pocket Went Free →
From Read It Later / Pocket’s founder:
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Today we launched a brand new version of Read It Later (now named Pocket). As a part of this update we have made all of our apps free. This is a big change to how we’ve operated in the past and I wanted to give some more insight into the decision. Personally, I always like to know how the…
March 2012
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The Hot Dog Shooter & the Takeout Bag: A Portable...
Read It Later users keep content on their tablets and phones for an average of 96 hours after they’ve saved it. What does that say about the lifespan of content and how we value it?
The other night I had this nightmare that I was trapped in a hot-dog eating contest.
It was an extreme hot-dog eating competition, hosted inside a dystopian terrordome. Thugs in lycra shorts pointed hot dog cannons...
January 2012
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Shifting reading habits boost Read It Later in... →
nateweiner:
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!
December 2011
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Longreads: Writer Logan Sachon: My Top Longreads... →
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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... →
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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…
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GQ's Sean Fennessey: My Top Longreads of 2011 →
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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.
June 2011
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Our first Longreads Member perk: A digital...
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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...
April 2011
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January 2011
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#Longreads #List: Share Your Reading Mixtapes
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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...
December 2010
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We Need New Ways of Judging the Success of... →
What other ways can we start looking at what websites are and how they perform? Well, pay rate, sure (though try prying that number out of anyone).
Then there’s traffic versus site income, certainly. Take the HuffPo again—that’s $30 million this year, they say, and they were reporting 26 million uniques via comScore back in March, so let’s just totally ballpark it and say they did 312 million...
Top 10 Longreads for Art, Design, Film & Music →
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I teamed with the wonderful BrainPickings.org to feature my favorites in this category. Some of you beat me to the punch on these, but there are a few new gems in there (Stephen Tobolowsky, I’m looking at you).
Not to be left out of the fun.
Gillian Reagan: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010 →
The latest list, from Gillian Reagan of Capital New York fame: Features Sady Doyle, Steven Hyden, Zachary Woolfe, Paul Ford, Josh Allen…
Paul Ford: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
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Paul Ford was an editor at Harper’s Magazine; now he’s wandering around, looking at stuff and writing computer programs.
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Tony Judt, “Night,” New York Review of Books (January 14)
This was the year of the dying critic. Most writers would do themselves, and their readers, a service by dying without all the self-elegies (“selfegies”?). We’ve read once too often, right, of the bark...
Andrea Pitzer: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
BTW, Andrea Pitzer’s Nieman Storyboard interviews with writers (like this one with Jay Caspian Kang) are excellent longreads unto themselves.
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Andrea Pitzer is writer and editor of Nieman Storyboard.
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To eliminate some of the choices that have already been popular—hello, David Grann! ;)—I haven’t included anyone I’ve met in person. All stories from 2010.
Rabbi to the Rescue,...
Alex Pappademas: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
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Alex Pappademas is a staff writer for GQ.
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Rules: Nothing not published this year, nothing from GQ, because I work there, and—in the spirit of the assignment—nothing I didn’t first read on my iPhone. (And I realize now, having done this whole thing, that everything on the main list is from a print-based publication, which should not be taken as some kind of a Statement. I still...
Choire Sicha: Five Longreads from 2010: Boundary...
choire:
In honor of the Longreads year-end fiesta of Things That People Have Read That Are Considered Long (And Also Worthy) from 2010, herewith, five things that stuck with me.
But first, a note about what was excluded. For starters, a number of things from The Awl, which were of course my ultimate favorites. (I won’t name names, because I love everyone who writes for us equally but also in a...
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Chris Jones: My Top 5 Longreads of 2010
At least one of Chris Jones’s stories will be on my own Top 5.
longreads:
Chris Jones is a writer at large for Esquire. (His stories are on many of your Top Fives.) He’s currently blogging at My Second Empire.
David Grann: The Mark of a Masterpiece, The New Yorker, July 12, 2010
Just a perfectly constructed, painful reveal of the sinister side of the art world, starting at its...
November 2010
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Want To Make A Rap Song Out Of The Rolling Stones'... →
Listen to this vocals-only track of the Rolling Stones song “Gimme Shelter.” Listen to the part that comes around 2 minutes and 50 seconds in, when back-up singer Merry Clayton is singing. Is the hair on your arms standing up? No? Then you don’t have hair on your arms. Or arms.
It’s true! It works!
Andrew Rice's Top 5 Longreads of 2010 →
longreads:
Andrew Rice is a contributing writer for New York Times Magazine.
Click here for some of Andrew’s work featured on Longreads
Longreads: Now on Tumblr + Share Your Top 5 of...
A couple notes:
1. Longreads is now on Tumblr. Follow away.
2. The wonderful Michelle Legro of Lapham’s Quarterly (see below) has helped kick off a list-filled December. Post your own Top 5 Longreads of 2010, and we’ll reblog them.
longreads:
Michelle Legro is an editor for Lapham’s Quarterly (who you should be following on Tumblr!)
michellelegro:
If you aren’t one of the...
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“Supposedly ‘Even Flow’ is about homelessness—see the lines about...”
– The Onion A.V. Club: Whatever Happened to Alternative Nation? 1992, Seattle and Pearl Jam
“The other thing is that my timing was exquisite, because I opened T.G.I....”
– Keep reading. [Via TMN] (via frontofbook)
Lapham's Quarterly: The Staff Recommends →
laphamsquarterly:
Lest you think that the Lapham’s Quarterly Tumblr is run by the Cicero5000, the world’s first trans-century automaton, there is actually a full-blooded human at the helm (also found here and here) who would like to recommend the following excellent Tumblrs:
The Atlantic think’s it’s soooo…
Bless you, Cicero5000.
If you’re not following, recommending and putting...
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“At first, Salazar’s scheme was bizarrely complex. Among other things, he...”
– Didn’t he see Rocky IV?
October 2010
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Netflix Instant Movies That Don't Suck →
noraleah:
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Click on that link! I started a new Tumblr so we can all recommend movies that are available on Netflix Instant to each other. Please follow it and submit movie recommendations! I love you! Bye!
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This is a great idea!
Followed.
Genius.
Now live: Longreads.com (and why the future of...
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For many years, I started my daily commute in Brooklyn, at the Bergen Street stop on the F Train. Which means that for 40 minutes, until I emerged at 42nd Street in Manhattan, I was WW — without wifi. Most of my iPhone apps were useless. It can make a news junkie like myself simply...
“My friends keep talking to me about how they want to start a Web site, but they...”
– Choire Sicha, in a nice profile of The Awl in the Times, makes a point that even big media companies sometimes miss: This is not impossible. Yes, profits can be smaller online, but there are enough cheap tools out there that make professional-quality publishing available to anyone, and, if you’re...
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September 2010
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Wrote about New York flakes and flakiness for the... →
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