Longreads: Reading List: 21 Outstanding Stories from Women's Magazines and Websites

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Are women’s magazines avoiding “serious journalism”? Guess it all depends on who’s deciding what’s serious.

The New Republic asks that question in a new article, and our biggest problem with this debate (and, to be honest, the term “longform journalism”) is that it can often run everything…

This is worth looking at

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eject: Last week’s LATimes article ran in Chicago Tribune...

kellyoxford:

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Last week’s LATimes article ran in Chicago Tribune today.


SHORTCUTS!
The message I am getting from this is that living my whole life as a writer, writing for years and years meant nothing. Growing up as the annoying kid on the street who wrote plays and tried to force peers to perform…

Just discovered Kelly Oxford - looks like she’s worth checking out. 

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"Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

- Ernest Hemingway  (via ohlady)

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Google Reader, I discovered, is like an infinite attic. Inside it, your old interests, which you’ve outgrown or set aside, keep on growing. It’s as though your old passions wandered off and lived their own lives, without you…

Upon the news that Google Reader would be shutting down, Joshua Rothman logged back in and rediscovered his old self: http://nyr.kr/Z3M1oA

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onfriday:

Monday

Their faces smothered by the film of dark and dirty London
the airy peace of country weekends very swiftly undone.

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commute

this morning
I fell in love
7 times

#1
the girl in the glasses
reading Perec
and biting her nails

#2
the foot with the alphabet tattoo

#3
Emily Blunt
staring at me
as we wait at Turnham Green

#4
a line in this novel
which reminds me of you

#5
the shortest dream:
a nap
between stations

#6
Stina on my headphones

#7
a text that ends in an x

This is lovely

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"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim."

- Nora Ephron (via thatkindofwoman)

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larue:

2 Dukes a’ jumping

larue:

2 Dukes a’ jumping

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"To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it."

- Ernest Hemingway (via sorakeem)

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