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The best longform journalism, every Sunday from @DVNJr & @JacobFeldman4. “A newsletter born of love.” — @AirMailWeekly. Since 2014. And: True Crime. The Lineup
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    The Sunday Long Read
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    Mar 22, 2018
    Welcome to @sundaylongread--your new Twitter home for great reads and superb writers, the SLR podcast, our weekly newsletter and more. Enjoy! —DVN
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    The Sunday Long Read
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    Aug 21, 2022
    We're so excited to announce our newest contributing cartoonist—Reza Farazmand, a New York Times-bestselling author, cartoonist, and creator of the popular internet comic series “Poorly Drawn Lines" (@PDLComics). Enjoy his debut strip for The SLR!
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    The Sunday Long Read
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    Jan 27, 2019
    Marcela Topor recognizes that her life story sounds like it’s pulled from the plot of a movie. “But sadly,” she says, “it’s true.” Check out this latest #SLR original piece by @meg_bernhard.
    Nothing is normal when your husband is exiled - The Sunday Long Read
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    Aug 18, 2020
    “My temperature hovered in the upper reaches of 102. It felt like my head was on fire. One night I sweated through five shirts. I shook so much from the chills I thought I chipped a tooth.” @BillPlaschke for @latimes
    Times columnist Bill Plaschke won first place for column writing in the Associated Press Sports Editors' annual contest.
    Plaschke: I had COVID-19, and these are the things nobody tells you
    From latimes.com
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    Mar 10, 2019
    "I thought it’d be a very juicy story about media and political personalities. By the second or third section, I realized I was reading a story that explains nearly everything." Guest editor @michaelngraff on his pick this week by @JaneMayerNYer. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
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    Jun 14, 2024
    #SLRLastLaugh ☀️ “Pat Sajak is an empty suit. He is that one real estate agent your wife didn’t like. He possesses all the warmth of a Cheesecake Factory host. And his takes are boilerplate cocktail party fascism.” @drewmagary
    Pat Sajak is an asshole
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    The Sunday Long Read
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    Nov 23, 2018
    For your Thanksgiving weekend reading pleasure, we present guest editor @drewmagary's classic reads:
    What Kind of Person Goes Elephant Hunting?
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    Dec 10, 2023
    "This devastating story about the life and death and capture and homecoming of a whale named Tokitae/Sk’aliCh’ehl-tenaut is gorgeously written and structured...I feel grateful that @CaitJGibson thought to tell it." Guest editor @esmedeprez on her top pick:
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    The call of Tokitae
    After half a century in a tank, the beloved orca Tokitae, also known as Lolita, was about to be freed. Then her life ended, and a moment of reckoning began.
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    Sep 19, 2023
    Maybe the best personal essay we’ll read all year. @JenishaWatts
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    Jun 28, 2023
    This discovery made by a grad student at the College of Charleston is about our country’s terrible legacy, but with the historians trying to piece together the truth, it's also a story of the country’s promise. @JenBerryHawes propublica.org/article/how-gr…
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    Dec 8, 2019
    The @nytimes and @ProPublica have done it again, with another collaboration that left us shaking our heads in awe. SLR contributor @pamelacolloff’s writing, full of stick-with-you detail, explains how things really work inside prison and out. nytimes.com/2019/12/04/mag…
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    Jul 14, 2024
    In this deeply reported, beautifully told story, @pamelacolloff describes an assistant district attorney’s attempt to extinguish a nearly 30-year-old injustice. @DVNJr's favorite this week
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    Feb 17, 2019
    "What I love about this story is that it’s as much about humans as animals. Through science and travel, @andersen explores the different ways people understand our place in the world—and how little we truly know.​" @JacobFeldman4 on his pick this week: theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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    The Sunday Long Read
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    Oct 7, 2019
    A year ago, Washington Post opinion writer Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul for an appointment. He was murdered inside. @ev_rat reports on Khashoggi’s murder, the aftermath and the cover-up, aided and abetted by silence. insider.com/the-murder-of-…