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"After 15 months of tumult, not everyone is ready or willing to return to a job that underpays, offers no paid sick leave, and treats them as expendable." @clarissajanlim @BuzzFeedNews https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/hospitality-industry-workers-covid-layoffs … #longreads

"So Muse strong-armed the Seattle plane maker, offering unprecedented terms while he was standing on their competitor’s turf. Boeing caved. It sold Southwest the three 737s for $4 million each, with no money down." @joefreelance @TexasMonthlyhttps://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/southwest-airlines-50-anniversary/ …

"I’d come to learn that John and Sandy lived in apartment 4C for fifty years. They were among the building’s longest tenants—and a gay couple who spent their lives together in a world that would have rather kept them apart." @wuermann @maisonneuvemaghttps://maisonneuve.org/article/2021/05/11/men-apartment-4c/ …

"What interests me more is what the facts cohere into, what webbing and connections they create: the emotional and psychological underlayers." An interview with @dwyercait on the writing process, slowness, and her essay on love and immigration:https://longreads.com/2021/06/03/migration-immigration-family-separation-storytelling-author-interview-caitlin-dwyer …

A new excerpt from our sister publication! "It takes a thief to catch a thief, as Schlaff likes to say—that’s the logic behind using jailhouse snitches. In the United States, the practice has a history as troubling as it is long." @WriterJMS @atavisthttps://longreads.com/2021/06/08/the-snitch-fbi-informant-scott-kimball/ …

"There’s a vague mythology of the Hotshot as a rugged and daring outdoorsman. Along with that comes another piece of fantasy: that all firefighters are well-paid, comfortably employed, and well-cared for." Zora Thomas, @grist https://grist.org/climate/federal-wildland-firefighters-fight-california-wildfires/ … #longreads

"As they peeled back the layers built up over time, the house gave up its memories. Faded wallpaper and fragments of yellow newspaper bore witness to shifts in fashion and politics." @David_Farrier @emergence_zinehttps://emergencemagazine.org/essay/were-gonna-carry-that-weight-a-long-time/ …

"The trial would not turn on eyewitness testimony or incriminating documents. Instead, it would hinge on the story told by Barbara Kentner’s body." @evaholland @thewalrushttps://thewalrus.ca/looking-for-justice-finding-betrayal/ …

"Built in Winnipeg in 1912, the Pasadena Apartments loom over the corner of Hugo Street North and McMillan Avenue...the kind of heritage building that transports you to another era." @wuermann @maisonneuvemaghttps://maisonneuve.org/article/2021/05/11/men-apartment-4c/ …

“Get ready,” Muse said to his smiling hostesses, each of whom was clad in her in-flight uniform of tangerine knit top, slouchy white belt, white side-laced go-go boots, and fire-orange hot pants. “Now, everyone flip Mr. Lawrence the finger.” @joefreelancehttps://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/southwest-airlines-50-anniversary/ …

"It was and remains the Indian Act that created this divide, stripping First Nations of their land, their governance structures, their very children, while forcing a pseudodemocracy down their throats." @arno_kopecky @hakaimagazinehttps://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/three-days-in-the-theater-of-old-growth-logging-and-protest/ …

"If there’s no hope, well, you start to look for other options, because you can’t just sit still forever and hope the nations of the world align with your personal family plans." @dwyercait on the emotional underlayers of family separation: https://longreads.com/2021/06/03/migration-immigration-family-separation-storytelling-author-interview-caitlin-dwyer … #longreads

"It’s a German-style potato salad flavored with onion, celery, sugar, cider vinegar, sweet pickle juice, and…mayonnaise. Next to that last ingredient my mom has written in parentheses, '(as much as you prefer).'” @GuernicaMaghttps://www.guernicamag.com/cooking-backwards/ …

"My father said he watched my facial features loosen and soften, too. He said I looked younger because I no longer carried the pain on my face." — @summerbooks1 after knee surgery to help with #rheumatoidarthritishttps://longreads.com/2021/05/25/happy-is-a-relative-state/ …

"Julio runs a local cell of the Empresa, an organised criminal structure, which has terrorised this city. He is waiting for a witch to bless his rosary. 'I’ve been coming here for five years,” he says. “It keeps me safe.'” @mat_charles_ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/narcos-necromancy-turf-wars-black-magic-colombia/ … #Colombia

"My mom wasn’t an adventurous cook or an experimental one, but she knew a simple secret: Learn what tastes good to you, and make that." @GuernicaMaghttps://www.guernicamag.com/cooking-backwards/ …

The Top 5 @Longreads of the Week, featuring work by @VLuck, @TristinHopper, @john_drescher, Steve Shorney, and Pamela Petrohttps://longreads.com/2021/06/04/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-373/ …

"I realized how many stories about immigration are just framed as tragedies, without the tenderness and hope of real life." @dwyercait https://longreads.com/2021/06/03/migration-immigration-family-separation-storytelling-author-interview-caitlin-dwyer … #longreads

Our Top 5 @Longreads of the Week, featuring pieces from @NewYorker, @VancouverSun, @TheAssemblyNC, @Independent, and @GuernicaMaghttps://longreads.com/2021/06/04/the-top-5-longreads-of-the-week-373/ …

"According to Karen Price, a forest ecologist and coauthor of numerous peer-reviewed papers mapping out the province’s old growth, British Columbia is on track to liquidate the last of its unprotected old growth within the next 10 years." @arno_kopeckyhttps://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/three-days-in-the-theater-of-old-growth-logging-and-protest/ …