The year was bad. These stories were good. longreads.com/2017/12/11/lon…
I am going to now attempt to thread all of the @Longreads Number 1 picks. Pray for me.
1. "The Prisoner," by Skip Hollandsworth @TexasMonthly #longreads #bestof2017 texasmonthly.com/articles/the-p…
2. "How Albert Woodfox Survived Solitary" by Rachel Aviv @NewYorker #longreads #bestof2017 newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
3. "Joe Biden: ‘I Wish to Hell I’d Just Kept Saying the Exact Same Thing’" by Jonathan Alter @nytimes #longreads #bestof2017 nytimes.com/2017/01/17/mag…
4. "America Is Still the Future" by Andrew Sullivan @NYMag #longreads #bestof2017 nymag.com/daily/intellig…
5. "The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS" by Luke Mogelson @NewYorker #longreads #bestof2017 newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
6. Coretta Scott King’s Letter Opposing Sessions’ 1986 Federal Nomination @washingtonpost #longreads #BestOf2017 washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
7. "The Graffiti Kids Who Sparked the Syrian War" by Mark MacKinnon @globeandmail #longreads #BestOf2017 theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the…
8. "The Faces of Obamacare" by Michael Hall @TexasMonthly #longreads #BestOf2017 texasmonthly.com/politics/the-f…
9. "The Curse of the Bahia Emerald, a Giant Green Rock That Ruins Lives" by @lizweil @WIRED #longreads #BestOf2017 wired.com/2017/03/curse-…
10. "The Making of a Mexican-American Dream" by Sarah Menkedick @PacificStand #longreads #BestOf2017 psmag.com/magazine/the-m…
11. "Operation London Bridge: The Secret Plan for the Days After the Queen’s Death" by @samknightwrites @guardian (A personal favorite!) #longreads #BestOf2017 theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/m…
12. "The Hollywood Exec and the Hand Transplant That Changed His Life" by Amy Wallace @LAmag #longreads #BestOf2017 lamag.com/longform/the-h…
13. "Inside Alabama’s Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs" by Peter Waldman @BW #longreads #BestOf2017 bloomberg.com/news/features/…
14. "The Dirtbag Left’s Man in Syria" by Reeves Wiedeman @NYMag #longreads #BestOf2017 nymag.com/daily/intellig…
15. "The Syria Catastrophe" by Richard Beck @nplusonemag #longreads #BestOf2017 nplusonemag.com/issue-28/polit…
16. "The Heart of Whiteness" by @IjeomaOluo @TheStranger #longreads #BestOf2017 thestranger.com/features/2017/…
17. "What Bullets Do to Bodies" by @jfagone @highline #longreads #BestOf2017 highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gu…
18. "How Trump Could Get Fired" by Evan Osnos @NewYorker #longreads #BestOf2017 newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
19. "Dwayne Johnson for President!" by @caityweaver @gq #longreads #BestOf2017 gq.com/story/dwayne-j…
20. "The Last Person You’d Expect to Die in Childbirth" by Renee Montagne and Nina Martin @ProPublica @NPR #longreads #BestOf2017 propublica.org/article/die-in…
21. "Jared Kushner’s Other Real Estate Empire" by @AlecMacGillis @ProPublica @NYTmag #longreads #BestOf2017 nytimes.com/2017/05/23/mag…
22. "The Loneliness of Donald Trump" by Rebecca Solnit @lithub #longreads #BestOf2017 lithub.com/rebecca-solnit…
23. "Losing Gloria," by Lizzie Presser @CalSunday #longreads #BestOf2017 story.californiasunday.com/losing-gloria
24. "The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning" by Matthew Shaer @NYTmag #longreads #BestOf2017 nytimes.com/2017/06/12/mag…
25. "The Ken Doll Reboot: Beefy, Cornrowed, and Pan-Racial" by @caityweaver @GQMagazine #longreads #BestOf2017 gq.com/story/the-ken-…
26. "Nina Simone in Liberia" by Katherina Grace Thomas @GuernicaMag #longreads #BestOf2017 guernicamag.com/nina-simone-in…
27. "How to Sell a Billion-Dollar Myth Like a French Girl" by Eliza Brooke #longreads #BestOf2017 @Racked racked.com/2017/7/5/15880…
28. "America’s Future is Texas" by Lawrence Wright @NewYorker #longreads #BestOf2017 newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
29. "Open Burns, Ill Winds" by @AbrahmL @ProPublica #longreads #BestOf2017 propublica.org/article/milita…
30. "Who’s Left to Defend Tommy Curry?" by Steve Kolowich @chronicle #longreads #BestOf2017 chronicle.com/article/who-s-…
31. "Who Was She? A DNA Test Only Opened New Mysteries" by @libbycopeland @washingtonpost #longreads #BestOf2017 washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/…
32. "What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity" @jaycaspiankang @NYTmag #longreads #BestOf2017 nytimes.com/2017/08/09/mag…
33. "Why We Fell for Clean Eating" by Bee Wilson @guardian #longreads #BestOf2017 theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
34. "A Most American Terrorist: The Making of Dylann Roof" by Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah @GQMagazine #longreads #BestOf2017 (If this doesn't win an @ASME1963 we can all pack it in and go home.) gq.com/story/dylann-r…
35. "The First Social Media Suicide" by Rana Dasgupta @guardian #longreads #BestOf2017 theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/…
36. "The First White President" by Ta-Nehisi Coates @TheAtlantic #longreads #BestOf2017 theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
37. "From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones" by Eli Hager @MarshallProj @nytimes #longreads #BestOf2017 themarshallproject.org/2017/09/13/fro…
38. "Children Under Fire" by John Woodrow Cox @washingtonpost #longreads #BestOf2017 washingtonpost.com/sf/local/2017/…
39. "How Fake News Turned a Small Town Upside Town" by @itscaitlinhd @NYTmag #longreads #BestOf2017 nytimes.com/2017/09/26/mag…
40. "The Touch of Madness" by David Dobbs @PacificStand #longreads #BestOf2017 psmag.com/magazine/the-t…
41. "From Aggressive Overtures to Sexual Assault: Harvey Weinstein’s Accusers Tell Their Stories" @RonanFarrow @NewYorker #longreads #BestOf2017 newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
43. "The Danger of President Pence" by @JaneMayerNYer @NewYorker #longreads #BestOf2017 newyorker.com/magazine/2017/…
44. "‘Tiny House Hunters’ and the Shrinking American Dream" by @rgay @Curbed #longreads #BestOf2017 curbed.com/2017/10/25/165…
45. "Promethea Unbound" by Mike Mariani @atavistmag #longreads #BestOf2017 magazine.atavist.com/promethea-unbo…
47. "The Uncounted" by @AzmatZahra @_anandgopal @NYTmag #longreads #BestOf2017 nytimes.com/interactive/20…
48. "The Making of an American Nazi" by Luke O’Brien @TheAtlantic #longreads #BestOf2017 theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
49. "Weinstein’s Complicity Machine" by Megan Twohey, Jodi Kantor, Susan Dominus, Jim Rutenberg, Steve Eder @nytimes #longreads #BestOf2017 nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Before we go, a few facts about our list: 29 of the features were by men 25 by women. @caityweaver and @RonanFarrow appear twice. If you sat down and read everything, it would take 25 hours.
A very bad year made for some very good journalism. We all learned a lot, but mostly me, who learned how to thread. Give your social media editors a raise, everybody! FIN.
