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Christine Spillson | Boulevard | Fall 2017 | 18 minutes (5,070 words) On the morning of August 14, 1936, Rainey Bethea stepped out a door and into the crowd whose reported numbers would conflict greatly, anywhere between 10,000-20,000, but whose number, reports agree, had been growing in the dark of pre-dawn Owensboro,…
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This past Sunday, The New York Times reported that Bette Howland, a writer most contemporary readers have never heard of, died at the age of 80, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Howland was the recipient of a MacArthur ‘Genius’ prize. She had a prolific decade, beginning in the mid-1970s, first publishing her memoir, W-3,…
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A.N. Devers | Longreads | December 2017 | 26 minutes (6,577 words) This is a story about a woman who was erased from her job as the editor of the most famous literary magazine in America. In 2011, the New York Times ran Julie Bosman’s energetic and gregarious profile of Lorin…
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Sarah Bregel | Longreads | November 2017 | 11 minutes (2,671 words) I am peering out the screen door at the front entrance of my house. Anxious, I glance up and down the tree-lined street and then move to the back door to do the same. The dog follows my every…
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At Rolling Stone, reporter Jason Newman recently revealed another round of sexual assault and abuse allegations against R. Kelly. The allegations are from one of Kelly’s former girlfriends, disc jockey Kitti Jones, who dated the singer from 2011 to 2013. It was June 2011, and R. Kelly had just performed to a frenetic crowd…
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I live in America now. I moved here in the early days of the Great Naira Crash of 2016, and after Brexit. Financially, my timing was atrocious. Every time I changed Sterling or Naira to Dollars, I fancied I could hear my bank account gnash its teeth. Emotionally however I think…
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I’m back in the gym. It’s hell, of course, because I hadn’t been for months before I went away and post-illness weakness is a real thing. But every day I run a little further than I ran before, and die a little less during my ab routine, so there’s hope that…
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Chris Wiewiora | Longreads | September 2017 | 13 minutes (3,328 words) ? Zoe looks right through me as she boards my bus. She was one of my best public speaking students at Iowa State and admirably focused on social justice, but on the bus, she doesn’t give me a hint…
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Meaghan O’Connell | Longreads | July 2017 | 12 minutes (3,000 words) The other week, a hardcover copy of Sally Rooney’s debut novel, Conversations With Friends, was jammed through our front door mail slot as I was sitting down to dinner with my family. The book hit the floor with a…
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Reality is always ambiguous, and that is something stories do not want to be. In real life, people are riddled with conflicting motives, emotions, and ideas. We can both love and hate our families with equal intensity. We can make choices not for one reason, but for a multitude of reasons,…
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