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Janet Steen | Longreads | February 2018 | 13 minutes (3,523 words) In 2002, while I was the literary editor at Details magazine, I interviewed Denis Johnson on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of what is perhaps still his most famous book, Jesus’ Son. When he died last year, at…
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Amos Barshad | The Marshall Project & Longreads | February 2018 | 16 minutes (4,100 words) This article was co-published with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletter, or follow The Marshall Project on Facebook or Twitter. The message came…
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Laura Smith | The Art of Vanishing | Viking | February 2018 | 22 minutes (5,980 words) I have long been in the habit of passing by houses and wondering about the people who live inside. I grew up in a residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., the kind where the homes are…
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Leah Sottile | Longreads | February 2018 | 33 minutes (8,200 words) I. The night before Quanice Hayes was shot in the head by a police officer, the skinny 17-year-old was snapping selfies with his girlfriend in a seedy Portland, Oregon, motel room. Bella Aguilar held her phone close when she…
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I wrote this speech for an event at the Michael King Writers Centre in November. The event was called ‘The Business of Writing: Making a Living Through Words’. I was super scared to say my speech, partly because it was 40 minutes long and I knew I’d probably die up there,…
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Troy Jollimore | Zyzzyva | Winter 2017 | 30 minutes (8,142 words) More than a decade ago, in the aftermath of the release of the Abu Ghraib photographs, the playwright and actor Wallace Shawn wrote: A few months ago, the American public, who in political theory and to some extent even…
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Lisa Romeo | Longreads | January 2018 | 11 minutes (2,767 words) My boyfriend said it with such confidence, such nonchalance. “Don’t worry. You’re safe in here, and I’ll be back in an hour.” He shut the bedroom door behind him as he left, and I heard his key in the…
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