"One of the witnesses told police the pair of older adults were part of the white nationalist group Durham has been affiliated with. The two individuals were “told to leave the building” and did, according to police records." #longreads
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Feeling idiosyncratic today? Time for an eccentric reading list!
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"He believed that the presence of women could complicate things; he worried that emotions could get out of hand when the two sexes were put together in high-stakes, high-altitude situations." #longreads @svatikirsten @outsidemagazine outsideonline.com/outdoor-advent
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"He believed that the presence of women could complicate things; he worried that emotions could get out of hand when the two sexes were put together in high-stakes, high-altitude situations." #longreads
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"For a long time, Pig-Pen’s name consistently appears in quotation marks, reminding us that it isn’t really a name — that he has, presumably, another one that he doesn’t know." #longreads
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Devin Kelly's essay, "Something About the Present," just slayed me. Kelly's spare language, and always generous tone, opens his reader to the present moment, to life unfolding. I left the world of this essay telling myself: Embrace it all. #greatessays
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Our latest feature by longtime contributor Devin Kelly is a remarkable meditation on tenderness, love, and frailty.
If you read anything this weekend, let it be this: longreads.com/2023/01/26/som
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"The obstacles impeding Leff and other hospital-at-home advocates in the United States were bound up with America’s labyrinthine health care system and particular medical culture." #longreads
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"Trump — apparently unaware of his own AG’s longstanding philosophy on capital punishment — asked Barr if he personally supported the death penalty and why." #longreads
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Not sure why the good people at are re-posting this but it quite the yarn including smuggled handguns, McAfee stirring my Tequila Sunrise with dirty fingers, mattresses against the windows, and a bodyguard removing his tooth with a wrench. Also! Paranoia.
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“Maybe five years ago, McAfee would have been dismissed as a giant nut bag, but too many holes have been punched into our computer systems to dismiss him now.”
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Our latest feature by takes a deep dive into the alarming, unregulated world of "kidfluencers"—and the parents behind their success.
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“What was the point of the tunnels? Some have suggested they were built as caves to store smuggled contraband from the port or served as a refuge for a religious cult who believed the end of the world was nigh.”
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“...He looked like a statuette constructed of margarine, then frozen so stiff that no warmth, either from the outer world or human feeling, could begin to melt it.”
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“The children slept in a room in the attic, in eight small beds lined up in a row. Whenever Baker returned home, even if it happened to be at 3 a.m., she would wake the children and demand affection.”
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“Under the head Chris would wear a swimmer’s nose clip. Chris would be Frank for such long periods the clip had deformed him slightly, flattened his nose out of shape.”
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“I was 2600 miles northeast of the Yale Club when the crisis broke. I was in Reykjavik, Iceland, waiting for Bobby to fly up for the match.”
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“We love to hear about them, to speculate why they are as they are — the odder, the better.”
Check out Chris Wheatley’s quirky new reading list on eccentrics:
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“I think: There is loss and there is only loss, which means that life is what we make of loss, which is an impossible task, to make something of loss, so life must simply be how we live, and continue to live, amidst the unthinkably unmakeable.”
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"Athletic is, according to Inc. magazine, the 26th fastest growing company in America—that’s any company, not just beer—with an eye-popping three-year revenue growth metric in the neighborhood of 13,000 percent." #longreads
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It's Monday! What are you reading to stave off the existential dread and ennui today? 👀
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Start the week off with some beauty and read Devin Kelly's latest feature, "Something About the Present."
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"Sandhill cranes are monogamous birds; during courtship, the male valiantly tosses vegetation or mud into the air and fans its wings above the body, before dancing with abandon and letting out a unison call." #longreads
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Our latest feature by longtime contributor Devin Kelly is a remarkable meditation on tenderness, love, and frailty.
If you read anything this weekend, let it be this:
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i am TRULY honored to be in top five for my love letter to kraft mac and cheese ✨ thank you everyone for reading and telling me your childhood stories of these orange noodles. i consider you my family now.
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A portrait of a community photographer. An ode to Kraft. Reframing psychedelics. A craftsperson at his peak. And the unique toolkit of the humpback.
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'If, as Furst believes, the heart is not primarily responsible for the movement of the blood, then what is? ' A thought-provoking essay by on function of human heart.
A highly recommended piece!
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wow 's psychedelics piece featured again on
"I appreciate ... the questions posed that I haven’t stopped thinking about, like: 'How broken is Western society that we think we need drugs in order to facilitate mass climate action?'"
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5. “You’d think it would be hard for whales to use tools, but as Doug Perrine reports at , humpbacks use what’s available to them — air and water — to form bubbles for a variety of activities.
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4. “There are just 650 of the violins left. What makes them so extraordinary? Musicians and scientists may puzzle over that question forever.”
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2. “I found this an unexpectedly beautiful essay, more about memory and belonging than cheesy pasta.”
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1. "When writes about his encounters with Lee...the grief that suffuses his words isn’t solely about Lee, but about the many atrocities visited upon the Asian American community."
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A portrait of a community photographer. An ode to Kraft. Reframing psychedelics. A craftsperson at his peak. And the unique toolkit of the humpback.
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"The 310-year-old instrument, which Bell has said is worth as much as $15 million, is among the roughly 650 made by the renowned 18th-century Italian craftsman Antonio Stradivari that survive today." #longreads
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“That is my last memory of seeing her alive. Her face, just above the table’s edge. Like a moon gone down to earth.”
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"But to Dr. Uri, my molar was merely a baby tooth. 'Not worth fixing.' He yanked the tooth quickly, with no novocaine, as if he had only seconds to extricate the tooth or the decay would live there forever." #longreads
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"Rather than searching for a dubious authenticity, essence, or nationalism, Corky suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and also did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity." #longreads
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"It’s a lot. Nims is a lot. But his hustle and bravado are precisely the things that have allowed him to break into the mainstream from Nepal’s deep bench of climbing talent." #longreads
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