January 2012
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“I thought I had the power to keep the good mom going strong. I was wrong.”
– Read an excerpt from our new story by Cris Beam, Mother, Stranger, on The Huffington Post.
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“Jan. 25 should be a day to start a new push for realizing the revolution’s goals”
– Egyptian activist Ahmed Maher, in the Daily Beast. The Instigators tells the story behind the digital uprising in Egypt.
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TONIGHT: Baghdad Country Club in NYC!
Come hear about Baghdad’s legendary drinking hole and have a drink with the founder of the Baghdad Country Club, the writer who chronicled it, and a veteran war photographer.
6:30pm, New America Foundation, 199 Lafayette Street Suite 3B, New York, NY 10012
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WatchBrian Wilson sings “California Girls” and “God Only Knows” during a recent performance in Southern California. Goodbye Surfing, Hello God! tells the story of the lost Beach Boys classic, Smile.
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RSVP for our event Wednesday!
Meet the founder of the Baghdad Country Club at our event at New America NYC. RSVP here.
Here’s the event description:
The Baghdad Country Club, a bar in the Green Zone and the subject of the recent story in The Atavist by the same name, was one man’s attempt to create an oasis in the heart of a conflict. In a place where even beer runs were a matter of life and death, the proprietors...
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“If you begin writing a song, finish it.”
– Brian Wilson spent 40 years finishing the songs on “Smile.” Jules Siegel writes about the early days in Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!
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Top 5 #Longreads of the Week →
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“It’s a hybrid that takes lessons from the past, recent and deep....”
– The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal on how the rise of Radiolab relates to longread culture.
Baghdad Country Club
The story is available here: http://bit.ly/sN2z4o “Baghdad Country Club is a fascinating piece of journalism that reads like fiction—exciting fiction, that is—that would also make a terrific film, not so much about war itself, but about the insanity that accompanies it.”—Hooman Majd, author of The Ayatollah Begs to DifferGod! @TheAtavist is blowing us away! Visual storytelling at its apogee. MUST...
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Want to join the digital longform revolution?
Come learn how the software behind the Atavist works next week at ScienceOnline2012.
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Baghdad Country Club Comes to NYC!
Join us at New America NYC on January 25 at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion of our new story Baghdad Country Club.
Featuring: Baghdad Country Club author Joshuah Bearman, founder of the club, James, and Time war photographer Robert Nickelsberg.
RSVP here.
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“William Wallace Cook catalogued every possible narrative through a method that...”
– Michelle Legro on Plotto: The Master Book of All Plots (from book pickings)
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Win a Free Copy of Our New Story! →
“Baghdad Country Club is so polished and focused that it’s like a handful of diamonds…It’s just begging to be…turned into a movie. Highly recommended.” (Super Punch)
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“People are as hungry as ever for good things to read, and length is no object.”
– The Economist on the “long read” online.
Nicholas Thompson: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 →
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Nicholas Thompson is a senior editor at The New Yorker and a frequent Longreader.
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I’m a sucker for stories about reinvention, disappearance, and people who pretend to be someone they aren’t. The genre has cliches, and can become trite. But it can also be wonderful. And this year, the category brought us some wonderful longreads.
