“Like all animals, we eat to survive. But as humans, we transform simple feeding into the ritual art of dining, creating customs and rites that turn out to be as crucial to our well-being as are proteins and carbohydrates.”

via @longreads longreads.com/2024/04/18/cro…

'Without food, we become preoccupied with it. Food is as evolutionarily important as pain and sex.'

When Crohn's disease took away his ability to eat, Andrew Chapman realized food is about more than nutrition. Read our latest #longreads essay here: longreads.com/2024/04/18/cro…

'To survive, they would need to rely on the skills and generosity of native Inuit families, and the determination and bravery of a young seaman who would set off on an epic journey to escape the Arctic...' Paul Brown for Singular Discoveries #longreads …gulardiscoveries.shorthandstories.com/the-snowdrop/?…

'The maxim 'money doesn’t buy happiness' starts to ring in my head. Not because I actually have money, but because I’m living with the material comforts of someone who does, and it doesn’t seem to make me feel any better.'

The Baffler thebaffler.com/odds-and-ends/…

'Size inflation has been normalized to such an extent that it’s almost impossible to appreciate the enormity of American cars.'

Mark Krotov n+1 #longreads
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Happy 15th birthday, Longreads. ❤️

It started out as a Twitter hashtag experiment, ended up as a National Magazine Award-winning site that has published many amazing writers and journalists.

But when I think about the early days, I think a lot about David Carr.

Our original features have won Pushcart Prizes, appeared in numerous year-end anthologies, been nominated for National Magazine Awards, and—best of all—have led to several book deals for their writers. Here’s the first one we ever published: longreads.com/2014/11/06/a-b…

On this day 15 years ago, Mark Armstrong fired off a tweet.

As it turns out, that was the beginning of something special.

'They taught me how to eat an orange like an apple, and just how many flowers really are edible. To date, the eggs from their kitchen were the best I’ve ever eaten.' Jaya Saxena for @eater eater.com/24127840/wwoof…

'At the frame shop there is so much beauty, it can’t be real. Maybe this is the afterlife, I think. Or purgatory.' —Wendy Brenner for Oxford American oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue…

'The reason websites continue to load, bank transfers go through, and civilization persists is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks.' Josh Dzieza The Verge theverge.com/c/24070570/int…

'But without radical intervention, whether by the government or the workers, the industry will become unrecognizable. And the writing trade—the kind where one actually earns a living—will be obliterated.'

db Harper's Magazine #longreads harpers.org/archive/2024/0…

It has been a decade today since the Bunkerville standoff; it has been six years since we released the first season of Bundyville. Still isn't too late to listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bun…

🟢🔴 I Tried to Forget My Whole Life. I’m Glad I Failed.
The hindsight of an adulthood autism diagnosis.
by John Paul Scotto at Longreads
#autism #CAW #diagnosis #JohnPaulScotto #longreads #neurodiverse #neurodiversity #Spectrum

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'It is always the same. It happens to women as different as Nicole Simpson, Lorena Bobbitt—and me.'

Andrea Dworkin, The Evergreen Review #longreads evergreenreview.com/read/in-memory…