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This week we’re excited to feature a Longreads Exclusive from David Kushner, a contributing editor to Rolling Stone whose work has also appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired. “Cormac McCarthy’s Apocalypse” is Kushner’s 2007 Rolling Stone profile of the Pulitzer…

(Source: lgrd.co, via longreads)

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“Why dont we hang out @ yr place tmw?” he wrote. “I can cook.”

An uneasy feeling squirreled around inside me. “My kitchen is covered in junkie blood/glass,” I replied.

“I work @ club,” he texted back. “If I can do anything its clean up blood/brkn glass.”

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In Which We Require A Push

Spring Back by ALEXANDRA KIMBALL for This Recording

“After we calmed down, [Artest] looked at me like, ‘Jack, you think we going to get in trouble?’ Jamaal Tinsley fell out laughing. I said, ‘Are you serious, bro? Trouble? Ron, we’ll be lucky if we have a freaking job.’ That lets me know he wasn’t in his right mind, to ask that question.”

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—Stephen Jackson

The Malice at the Palace - An oral history of the NBA’s scariest moment in history. 

J. Abrams for Grantland

“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more.”

—Maurice Sendak with Terry Gross late last year. This entire interview is among the most beautiful things I have ever read.

“In the end I never got to ask my many questions - how do you pay your bills? Why do you have a picture of yourself as your background on your blackberry? How do you afford a blackberry? Have you ever written a cover letter? Will you ever quit acting if you’re not at a certain level of steady income by a certain time? Did you just take me to that play because you knew your ex-girlfriend’s sister would be there? How do you have the self-confidence to submit your constructed Self to the brutal process of auditions on a regular basis? Will you marry me and raise our children and let me support you and your dreams?”

—In Which We Wonder How He Pays His Bills - Home - This Recording

“In a town of creamy opportunism, the thefts by which he supported himself were so small-time, high-risk, and potentially humiliating that they bespoke a cockeyed integrity. He made the patently tacky petty theft a symbol of bravado and status envy.”

—Malibu’s Lost Boys - Sheila Weller for Vanity Fair. In which Sheila Weller makes a pretty compelling, albeit inadvertent, case for having Brett Easton Ellis write Mickey Dora’s biography.

“Stars of the new contraceptive age included French caps, French pessaries, French “male safes”, French womb veils, French female preventive powder, the French tickler, French female pills, “gentleman’s protectors”, cundrums, etc.”

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Lascivious Material by ALICIA PUGLIONESI for the always smarter than you remembered This Recording.

“What belongs to you has very little to do with whether or not you spend money or time on it”

—Home - This Recording

“I first learned about cloud lovers in a police report concerning a man who received a blowjob from a young woman and went mad.”

—The Cloud Appreciation Society: Women’s Breasts, a Memorable Police Report, and People Who Love to Stare at Fluffy White Things in the Sky by CHARLES MUDEDE

“Watching her walk on point is a bit like watching a water insect skate along 5th Avenue. Guinness has famously said that she doesn’t do event dressing because every day is an event just to be alive, to celebrate and to champion being an individual.”

—Jackie Lydon interviews Daphne Guiness for All Things Considered.

“As a metric unit, the kilogram is “equal to the mass of the international prototype,” according to the official definition. In other words, as metrologists like to point out, it has the remarkable property of never gaining or losing mass. By definition, any physical change to it alters the mass of everything in the cosmos.”

—The Search for a More Perfect Kilogram, by Jonathon Keats for Wired Magazine

“A depressed young man came to see Hazel Dreis, the bookbinder. He said, “I’ve decided to commit suicide.” She said, “I think it’s a good idea. Why don’t you do it?”

—From ‘Indeterminacy’ by JOHN CAGE, via This Recording

“I will never cheat on you but I may gain 100 pounds which is a different kind of betrayal.”

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- M. Kaling

A Long Day at ‘The Office’ With Mindy Kaling - Kurtis Sittenfeld for the NYT.

If I have a celebrity crush, it’s Mindy Kaling.