February 2012
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Listen to Joshuah Bearman talk about Baghdad...
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The Chimerist: Once Magazine →
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Once Magazine brings photojournalism to the iPad in monthly issues of three stories each. The format is simple — several pages of intelligent reporting interspersed with gorgeous photography — but native to the device, so that the essays are pleasing and straightforward to navigate.
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What the Heck Happened to All of These Moon Rocks? →
The astronauts who landed on the moon brought back incredible souvenirs: 842 pounds of moon rocks. Over the years many of those precious stones disappeared.
Get the full story here.
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Win a Free Copy of 'The Case of the Missing Moon... →
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WatchWatch a trailer for our new story Mother, Stranger by Cris Beam.
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LQ: Might we suggest a Longreads pairing? →
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Ah the long weekend, so much to read! Of course you are thinking: I need more devastating, thoughtful, and poignant true stories of familial love and loss. Might we suggest a delightful pairing of Philip Connors and Cris Beam?
Philip Connors, “Stories to Live With” from the Family issue of LQ
We tell stories about the dead in order that they may live, if not in body then at...
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RSVP for our free Valentine's Day event!
Two of our bestselling authors will discuss their memoirs about their mothers, and the role of memoir writing in the digital age.
Drinks and dessert will be served.
6:30 p.m. at Brooklyn’s Melville House. RSVP here.
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The Digital Road to Egypt’s Revolution →
A year after the Egyptian revolution that inspired the world, we know only fragments of the story. Who set the pieces in place, particularly for the massive uprising of January 25, and how did they do it?
An interactive timeline based on The Instigators.
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Sadie Magazine reviews Cris Beam’s Mother, Stranger:
“She writes so deeply, exposing her rawest of emotions, that goose bumps cover your arms before you’ve had time to fully take in what she’s saying.”
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“Her death gave me my voice.”
– Cris Beam on why she waited until her mother died to write her memoir.
The Story Behind the Men’s Mag Zanesville Story... →
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Happy Birthday, Gay Talese →
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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
Frank Sinatra, holding a glass of bourbon in one hand and a cigarette in the other, stood in a dark corner of the bar between two attractive but fading blondes who sat waiting for him to say something. But he said nothing; he had been silent during much of the evening, except now in this private club in Beverly Hills he seemed even more distant, staring...
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The Millions' Guide to Litifying Your Tumblr... →
Thrilled to be listed among such good company.
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Author Alison Smith on Mother, Stranger
“I read Cris Beam’s Mother, Stranger in one sitting, riveted in place, unable to take my eyes of her words. What shines through this wrenching and clear-eyed examination of a child caught inside her mother’s madness is the writer’s courage, her wisdom, her unshakable compassion.”
—Alison Smith, author of Name All the Animals
The story is available for iPad, Kindle and Nook
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“I was dealing with my own inability to find the narrative.”
– Joan Didion on her new memoir, in an interview with The Believer.
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