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Collection: "Fake News"
This collection is based on a "seed" list of URLs from a Google Doc about "False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and/or Satirical “News” Sources" published on November 18th, 2016, by Melissa Zimdars, an assistant professor of communication and media at Merrimack College.
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You Talk Real Good
By Alison Stine Feature

Alison Stine confronts the ways in which being hard of hearing has made her job search more difficult.

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Bundyville: The Remnant

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Breaking the Family Silence on Alcoholism
By Alicia Lutes Feature

Alicia Lutes contemplates her family’s history of addiction, her mother’s failing liver, and the effect it’s all had on her generation.

‘I Was Interested in the People Who Are Stuck With These Memories.’
By Victoria Namkung Feature

Steph Cha discusses her new novel “Your House Will Pay,” the LA Riots, the Korean American Angeleno community, her 3,600 Yelp reviews, and pushing back against gatekeepers in publishing.

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo-Hoo
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The Great American Press Release
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Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction
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By Alison Stine  / Longreads
Breaking the Family Silence on Alcoholism
By Alicia Lutes  / Longreads
How Do We Preserve the Vanishing Foods of the Earth?
By Lenore Newman  / LitHub
Voyage Around My Cell
By Ahmet Altan  / The Paris Review
One Night at Mount Sinai
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The Unbreakable Bond
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A Miniature for My Mother
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The Billion-Dollar High-Speed Internet Scam
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Location, Location, Location: Six Stories on Moving House
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Jacqueline Alnes explores identity and privilege in these six stories about moving house.

Life After Pain
By Michelle Weber Highlight

One day, Ge Gao’s right hand stopped working. Then the pain started, and it’s never stopped.

Less Work, More Friends, No Consequences
By Longreads Reading List

Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.

The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
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This week, we’re sharing stories from Brett Forrest, Lizzie Presser, Ahmet Altan, Lisa Miller, and James K. Williamson.

1000 Days of Trump
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Working To Live Often Means Giving Up Your Life
By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight

You can’t have work-life balance when work dictates the balance.

The Reality of Being Sick and Alone
By Carolyn Wells Highlight

Diagnosed with breast cancer, Anne Boyer discusses the treatment that is poisoning her body.

Unearthing the Story: An Interview with Peter Hessler
By Frank Bures Feature

The New Yorker writer describes his career’s circuitous route, from his start as a struggling fiction writer to becoming a China correspondent, and now the author of a new book about the Arab Spring.

The Great Fiber-Optic Fraudster of Alaska
By Krista Stevens Highlight

To this day, only Elizabeth Pierce knows why she defrauded partners and investors by forging contract signatures.

Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage
By Longreads Feature

Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.

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Cut From the Same Cloth
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Artist Myfanwy Tristram was irritated by her teenage daughter’s extreme fashions — until she took an illustrated journey into their origins.

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By Tobias Carroll Feature

Marc Hamer discusses life, death, and the lost art of catching a mole.

Queens of Infamy: Njinga
By Anne Thériault Feature

The Portuguese colonizers of West Central Africa learned it the hard way: you mess with the Queen of Ndongo and Matamba at your own peril.

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo-Hoo
By Christy Lynch Feature

A Childless Millennial’s Guide to Falling Apart at Disney World

Hello, Forgetfulness; Hello, Mother
By Max Feature

Peering into the mirror of her mother, Marcia Aldrich wonders whether she too is sentenced to dementia.

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Orchids
By Katy Kelleher Feature

Sometimes a flower is just a flower, and sometimes it’s a powerful vehicle for giving free rein to our worst colonialist and misogynist impulses.

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‘I Was Interested in the People Who Are Stuck With These Memories.’
By Victoria Namkung Feature

Steph Cha discusses her new novel “Your House Will Pay,” the LA Riots, the Korean American Angeleno community, her 3,600 Yelp reviews, and pushing back against gatekeepers in publishing.

Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage
By Longreads Feature

Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.

This Month In Books: ‘One Degree Is About the Uncanny’
By Dana Snitzky Commentary

This month’s books newsletter is suspended in a state of anticipation.

Same Sh*itty Media Men, Different Day
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Rebecca Traister asks how NBC can possibly change its misogynist culture if it keeps the same bad actors at the top.

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Less Work, More Friends, No Consequences
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Workaholics burn the midnight oil, while the rich and powerful fail up.

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Longreads editors discuss stories in ProPublica/The New Yorker, Wired, and Esquire.

Editor’s Roundtable: Climate of the Future, Music of the Past
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Longreads editors discuss stories in Miami New Times, The New Yorker, 5280 Magazine, and The Believer.

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We need to start talking about seemingly drastic approaches to the climate crisis, such as sun-dimming aerosols, right now — or we risk losing democratic control of the process.

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From global capital to YouTube, carbon credits to indigenous land defenders in their own words, Will Meyer has compiled a reading list on who lit the match and how the fire might be stopped.

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Life After Pain
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One day, Ge Gao’s right hand stopped working. Then the pain started, and it’s never stopped.

You Talk Real Good
By Alison Stine Feature

Alison Stine confronts the ways in which being hard of hearing has made her job search more difficult.

Breaking the Family Silence on Alcoholism
By Alicia Lutes Feature

Alicia Lutes contemplates her family’s history of addiction, her mother’s failing liver, and the effect it’s all had on her generation.

Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo-Hoo
By Christy Lynch Feature

A Childless Millennial’s Guide to Falling Apart at Disney World

Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage
By Longreads Feature

Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.

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