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The Cost of Telling Your Truth, Publicly
Sari Botton | Longreads | June 2015 | 8 minutes (1,858 words) In her first memoir, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem, Jillian Lauren held back pretty much nothing—about her eighteen months in the harem...
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The Craft of Cooking
Jessica Gross | Longreads | June 2015 | 18 minutes (4,479 words) In 1980, 29-year-old Christopher Kimball enrolled in a cooking class and was so frustrated by his instructors’ inability to answer his...
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E. B. White on the Secret of Writing for Children
Anybody who shifts gears when he writes for children is likely to wind up stripping his gears. But I don’t want to evade your question. There is a difference between writing for children and for...
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Hunting for Prince’s Secret Vault of Unreleased Music
Vice: Is there anything, just a taste, that you’d be able to share? Mobeen Azhar: Yeah—OK, I want to know how to put this diplomatically—let me put it like this: One big theme which comes across no...
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What Etgar Keret Learned About Storytelling from His Father
Author Etgar Keret’s new memoir, The Seven Good Years, chronicles the time between the birth of his son and the death of his father. Keret’s parents were both Holocaust survivors, and in an interview...
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Should You Keep Having Sex During a 9.0 Earthquake, and Other Pressing Questions
If you’ve been too scared to read this week’s New Yorker story on the apocalyptic earthquake that’s threatening to destroy the Pacific Northwest, here’s a lighter take from Dan Savage, who had a short...
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Marilynne Robinson on Writing and Discipline
INTERVIEWER Do you keep to a schedule? ROBINSON I really am incapable of discipline. I write when something makes a strong claim on me. When I don’t feel like writing, I absolutely don’t feel like...
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E.L. Doctorow: 1931-2015
INTERVIEWER Isn’t there an enormous temptation as a fiction writer to take scenes out of history, since you do rely on that so much, and fiddle with them just a little bit? DOCTOROW Well, it’s nothing...
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Why Do We Judge Virgins?
Jessica Gross | Longreads | August 2015 | 14 minutes (3,532 words) Rachel Hills’ first book, The Sex Myth, presents a radical deconstruction of our cultural narratives about sex. Hills, an Australian...
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Breaking the Mold
Jessica Gross | Longreads | August 2015 | 17 minutes (4,402 words) Bella DePaulo, a Harvard-trained social scientist who is now a Project Scientist at UCSB, started her career researching deception....
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How to Get SuperBetter
Jessica Gross | Longreads | September 2015 | 18 minutes (4,658 words) In 2009, while game designer Jane McGonigal was writing her first book, Reality Is Broken, she hit her head. The concussion...
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On ‘Remaining in the Shadows’: Elena Ferrante on Anonymity and Writing
After so many years, are you still sure about your decision to remain in the shadows? “Remain in the shadows” is not an expression I like. It savors of plots, assassins. Let’s say that, fifteen years...
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Relearning How to Talk in the Age of Smartphone Addiction
Jessica Gross | Longreads | October 2015 | 17 minutes (4,263 words) Sherry Turkle, a professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT, has studied our relationship with technology for...
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How Harper Lee Helped Bring Back ‘Bloom County’
Berkeley Breathed is responsible for one of the more delightful things to happen to my Facebook feed in some time: The Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, who created “Bloom County” and characters like...
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Terry Gross, National Interviewer: 40 Years of Fresh Air
This fall, Gross marks her 40th anniversary hosting “Fresh Air.” At 64, she is “the most effective and beautiful interviewer of people on the planet,” as Marc Maron said recently, while introducing an...
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‘The Good Is Elusive and Transitory in This World’
Jessica Gross | Longreads | November 2015 | 19 minutes (4,880 words) Few things remind me of how much beauty there is in the world as clearly and reliably as Maira Kalman’s work. An author, artist...
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The Evangelical Scientist Preaching Climate Change
The weather in the United States this “autumn” has been bizarre. I live in Maryland, and we’ve had seventy degrees fahrenheit one day, forty degrees the next, then sleet, then sunshine—and I’ve never...
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The Making of Janet Jackson’s ‘Control,’ 30 Years Later
The way our studio was set up back then was we had a control room where our mix board was and all that stuff, then there was a little lounge right outside with a couch. She was out there sitting and...
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‘My Model for Writing Fiction Is to Replicate the Feeling of a Dream’
Jessica Gross | Longreads | March 2016 | 20 minutes (5,074 words) In 1989, Daniel Clowes started a comic-book series called Eightball. Instead of lauded superheroes following traditional plotlines,...
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Mark Haddon: ‘Ultimately, There Is No Narrative Without Death’
Jessica Gross | Longreads | May 2016 | 15 minutes (3,709 words) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was Mark Haddon’s first novel, and the one that made him famous. Told from the...
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