FeedCity: Longreads

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14:45 • Krista Stevens

A Night Living in Penn Station

"For the outreach workers trying to place homeless New Yorkers in shelters, each evening presents familiar faces and fresh challenges."

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12:42 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

No iPad Till After Dinner, Mom

"Seniors are spending more time than ever on their slop-filled feeds. It’s their adult children’s job to save them."

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14:03 • Carolyn Wells

Is There Anything BPC-157 Can’t Cure?

"Proponents of the peptide say it can treat gingivitis, runner’s knee, even dementia."

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12:45 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Keeping Up Appearances

"The women taking over the funeral industry."

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10:42 • Longreads

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

This week we are showcasing stories on dark nutrition, Eurovision, Wikipeida, medjool dates, and the slappy man-hug.

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18:06 • Brendan Fitzgerald

A Texas Cop Signed on to Help ICE Deport His Neighbors. It Tore the Town Apart.

"Today more than 1,900 agencies in at least 30 states have signed up for ICE’s task force model, with more than 29,000 deputized officers. With their help, ICE recently hit a record of immigration arrests."

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13:18 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Traveling Route 66 in the Age of Data Centers

"Driving through America’s back roads, the emptiness of the information superhighways comes into sharp relief."

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11:15 • Aube Rey Lescure

Road Trip at the Borderland

Illustration of a curvy road trip route against a background of fall leaves

A family road trip along the North Korean border, with a Chinese father and his estranged daughter, plastic bags of food, and an 81-year-old grandmother who refuses to wear a seat belt.

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11:09 • Brendan Fitzgerald

The Proponents of “Dark Nutrition” Think Everything You Know About Food Is Wrong

"More Americans are rejecting everything they’ve been taught about food."

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21:06 • Carolyn Wells

How Jim Morrison Surmounted Tragedy and Skied Down Everest

"The mountaineer and his partner, Hilaree Nelson, planned a first-ever descent. After her death, he pushed on."

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19:06 • Brendan Fitzgerald

The Ledger and the Blade

"The 1993 stabbing of Monica Seles and our quest for optimization."

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12:45 • Carolyn Wells

Go Fast, Turn Left: The Anderson Speedway & Indiana’s Data Centers

"The racers do their first tenuous laps behind the pace car. The subterranean rumble of their engines grows."

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10:45 • Maggie Shipstead

“I Play the Field; I Read Around.”

The Great Circle Author on Her Omnivorous Habits, E-Reader Renaissance, and Unending Search for “The One.”

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26 Oct 19:09 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

You Finally Got a Wikipedia Page. Then It Vanished

"Every day, Wikipedia biographies of living people are flagged for deletion because the subjects are not 'notable' enough. How do these poor souls take the news?"

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26 Oct 19:09 • Krista Stevens

The Lucrative World of Literary Scams

"Why writers are the perfect target."

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26 Oct 14:48 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Benchma(r)king

"James Bridle experiments with combining their practical carpentry skills and the abundant theoretical knowledge of AI to build a chair."

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26 Oct 12:45 • Seyward Darby

Vocal Accords

"Eurovision faces the music."

Longreads
23 Oct 11:36 • Longreads

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week

Doubt, idiocracy, baseball, meals, and fish. Find out why these five stories stood out.

Longreads
22 Oct 16:03 • Brendan Fitzgerald

The Dominican Baseball Factory

"Teams make handshake deals with players as young as 11 while moneylenders prey on their families. The industry is corrupt, but Major League Baseball and the players union have done little about it."

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22 Oct 12:12 • Seyward Darby

Apocalypse Now and Then

"Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination."

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22 Oct 10:09 • Kristin Idaszak

Charnel Heart

Watercolor drawing of royal coat of arms made of human bones and skulls with pile of skulls background. Kostnice Church in Kutna Hora.

A bone chapel promised to teach me about mortality. It took a life-threatening illness for me to learn.

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21 Oct 20:06 • Carolyn Wells

Quest for the Slappy Man-Hug

"I’ve been passing as male for six years, and I still have no idea how to do the Slappy Man-Hug."

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21 Oct 19:06 • Krista Stevens

Ghosts of the Grove

"Palmeros are the gutsy, highly skilled farm workers who harvest your medjool dates. Now climate change, immigration raids, and a push for mechanization threaten their 6,000-year-old tradition."

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21 Oct 17:06 • Brendan Fitzgerald

Have You Been to the Sixth-Worst McDonald’s in America?

"We have. It’s ruled by Stafford County teens."

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21 Oct 12:27 • Krista Stevens

He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can’t Forget.

"Forrest Welborn spent decades as a suspect in the infamous Austin murders. It all but destroyed his life. This year, he was finally exonerated. So why doesn’t he feel free?"

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20 Oct 17:06 • Brendan Fitzgerald

The Man Who Taught Us How to Pay Attention

"The works of the British art critic John Berger offer the antidote to our age of infinite scrolling."

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20 Oct 12:15 • Carolyn Wells

Death by a Thousand Dams

"Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States."

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20 Oct 10:12 • Longreads

The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Jasper Craven

He wrote the book on how the military shapes masculine identity. He'll also tell you about Disney adults, Pharaoh Sanders, and his favorite spot for a burger and negroni.

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19 Oct 15:48 • Cheri Lucas Rowlands

Feeding the Revolution

"The burrito’s history as a symbol of resistance."

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19 Oct 13:45 • Seyward Darby

The Doxing of Jane Doe

"The alleged perpetrators in the 'Cornell Seven' case were doxed. But so was the victim. And the person who doxed her. And people with no connection to the case at all."