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“We’re All Still Cooking…Still Raw at the Core”: An Interview with Jacqueline...
Adam Morgan | Longreads | September 2019 | 9 minutes (2,283 words) In 2016’s National Book Award–nominated Another Brooklyn, Jacqueline Woodson infused her writing with a sense of place I could feel in...
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‘Writing This Book Was a Weird Séance ’: An Interview With Deborah Levy
Tobias Carroll | Longreads | October 2019 | 10 minutes (2,536 words) What makes history resonate into the present, and how does memory change that? Deborah Levy’s new novel, The Man Who Saw...
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‘I Was Interested in the People Who Are Stuck With These Memories.’
Victoria Namkung | Longreads | October 2019 | 16 minutes (4,240 words) On March 16, 1991, 15-year-old Latasha Harlins went to a local convenience store in South Los Angeles to buy a bottle of orange...
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‘I’m a Big Fan of Writing To Find Out What You Don’t Know.’
Adam Morgan | Longreads | November 2019 | 11 minutes (2,861 words) The deceptively slim Reinhardt’s Garden, Mark Haber’s astonishing novella, is composed of a single paragraph, one that meanders...
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‘By Choice, and Not By Choice…Time Is Going To Change You.’
Zan Romanoff | Longreads | November 2019 | 13 minutes (3,494 words) I first encountered Nina MacLaughlin on Tumblr: at some point around 2010, I stumbled onto her blog, Carpentrix, in which she was...
View Article10 Outstanding Short Stories to Read in 2020
The #longreads hashtag on Twitter is filled with great story recommendations from people around the world. Pravesh Bhardwaj is a longtime contributor — throughout the year he posts his favorite short...
View ArticleN.K. Jemisin: ‘I am still going to write what I am going to write.’
In Raffi Khatchadourian‘s New Yorker profile of author magnifique N.K. Jemisin, Jemisin recounts the racism she witnessed as a child in Alabama in the ’80s, as well as the racism — editorial and...
View ArticleSit Back, Relax, and Try Not To Think About the Hole We’re Making In Your Skull
Mary South’s New Yorker short story on rape trauma and recovery, “You Will Never Be Forgotten,” is being rightly praised, but her “Frequently Asked Questions About Your Craniotomy,” published in at The...
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‘I Want Every Sentence To Be Doing Work’: An Interview with Miranda Popkey
Zan Romanoff | Longreads | February 2020 | 17 minutes (4,459 words) “What I’m trying to say,” the narrator explains midway through Miranda Popkey’s debut novel, Topics of Conversation, “the theorem...
View ArticleThis Week in Books: An Everlasting Meal
Dear Reader, The book that’s been the most help to me during lockdown is a book I’ve never read; I didn’t need to read it for it to save my life. I just needed, just one time, from a review or maybe...
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