''Those kids, that school, they got the best of Richie,' she said with pride and not regret.'

joe sexton The New York Times #longreads

nytimes.com/2024/04/16/nyr…

In a fascinating new #longreads reading list, Samuel Firman questions whether skiing and snowboarding are elitist sports or a bellwether for climate change. Featuring stories from The Economist’s 1843 magazine, Financial Times, GQ Magazine, Current Affairs, FREESKIER magazine, and others. longreads.com/2024/04/30/sli…

Congratulations to Lilly Dancyger, whose book, 'First Love,' is out next week via The Dial Press (@randomhouse). It's an essay collection on close female friendships: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/714347/f…

Revisit Lilly's 2019 essay, which was revised for the book: longreads.com/2019/09/16/it-…

'Technologists are great at incremental fixes, but to regenerate entire habitats, we need to learn from ecologists who take a whole-systems view.'

Maria Farrell (Dr) Robin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com Noema Magazine #longreads noemamag.com/we-need-to-rew…

'When scientists analyzed several decades of muskrat population surveys and satellite measurements of open water in the delta, they found a tight correlation between wetland loss and muskrat declines.' —Brandon Keim for Hakai Magazine 🎨by Sarah M. Gilman hakaimagazine.com/features/the-m…

'Why do I change my name to make others comfortable? Maybe I’m rejecting the culture that often rejects me, and the result is that I become a smaller version of myself.'

Montserrat Andrée Carty on straddling multiple cultures: longreads.com/2024/04/23/mou…

PLUS: Many other fascinating longform stories

Like this incredible, but frankly tough-to-read, essay about Crohn's disease from Andrew Chapman for Longreads

longreads.com/2024/04/18/cro…

'I watched Gordon Ramsay make French pan sauces and tuna with lime zest. I watched a man on Netflix who seemed to know nothing about food eating Khao soi in Thailand.' #longreads

'While scientists have figured out extraordinary ways to keep patients who can’t eat alive, they haven’t yet figured out how to deal with what it does to us mentally.' #longreads

longreads.com/2024/04/18/cro…

Your weekend read: an essay by Montserrat Andrée Carty on growing up with her name, Montserrat.

'We seek to become the truest version of ourselves, but what if there isn’t one true version, but multiple? Like father, like daughter, there are two versions of me.'

longreads.com/2024/04/23/mou…

'The participants became increasingly focused on food, collecting recipes, and taking down pin-ups of women to hang pictures of food.'
#longreads

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'Her first name is markedly American, whereas mine, Spanish. She grew up (mostly) in Spain, I grew up (mostly) in the US. We were a coin toss: hers fell one way, mine the other.'

In this week's new essay, Montserrat Andrée Carty writes about language and identity:

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'There was something “honorable” in the way Mauney always chose the hardest ride, Murray observes, even though he didn’t need to.' —Sally Jenkins for The Washington Post. #longreads

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'Sound is exciting—it changes the world. But it has to stop now and then. Without spaces in between, you cannot parse the words. Without stretches of silence, you cannot hear yourself or anyone else.' —Jeanette Cooperman for The Common Reader commonreader.wustl.edu/c/variations-o…