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The Sunday Long Read: Dead Cows, Foodies, Stupidology

The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 3d

Dead cows, foodies, stupidology & more in this week's issue--check it out! Featuring @jayasaxena.com, @zeyiyang.bsky.social, @danwolken.bsky.social + other incredible writers mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

What Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson Knows About Pain

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 10d

The Rock opens up about a lifetime of pain. In this curtain-raiser to Dwayne Johnson’s dramatic turn in the forthcoming film, “The Smashing Machine,” Sam Anderson flexes all his formidable writing gifts. @JacobFeldman4 & @DVNJr's other top pick this week www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/m...

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The Last Resort - Believer Magazine

The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 10d

A few years ago, Ash Sanders wound up in Bombay Beach, a tiny town in CA home to artists, absurdist philosophers and dreamers partaking in a “post-apocalyptic experiment in radical living. @jacobfeldman.bsky.social & @dvnjr.bsky.social's fave www.thebeliever.net/the-last-res...

Listen to this story: It is easy to miss California’s biggest environmental disaster. Driving north on Highway 111, you wouldn’t expect to find an inland sea. If it’s summer, the thermometer in your c...

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 10d

Morning! We've once again spent the week reading dozens of stories and selecting the very best for your enjoyment, supplemented by several more terrific acts of journalism hyperlinked below each main pick. Give 'em a click. You'll be glad you did! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

The Sunday Long Read: Last Resort, The Rock, Extreme Cleaner

Q&A: ProPublica’s Max Blau on bridging investigation and narrative, live at University of Georgia - The Sunday Long Read

The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 11d

Don't miss our Q&A with @propublica.org's @maxblau.bsky.social on bridging investigation and narrative, live at the University of Georgia. sundaylongread.com/2025/09/26/p...

The SLR Podcast hit the road (somewhat virtually) for the first time this summer. SLR co-founder Jacob Feldman spoke to ProPublica’s Max Blau at the University of Georgia in partnership with the schoo...

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 12d

The first-ever LIVE recording of our podcast is out today! In it, @jacobfeldman.bsky.social interviews journalist @maxblau.bsky.social about his @propublica.org story “I Don’t Want to Die”: Needing Mental Health Care, He Got Trapped in His Insurer’s Ghost Network. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 13d

We did something special this month on The Sunday Long Read podcast—our first live show! It drops tomorrow, so please subscribe and check it out. sundaylongread.com/podcast/

Our Podcast - The Sunday Long Read

Pulitzer winner Don Van Natta Jr. speaks to popular journalists, offering lessons for all writers and readers.

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 16d

Thanks for taking the time to read this week's SLR, featuring excellent writing/reporting by @kylemacneill.bsky.social, @jonathanmahler.bsky.social, @danielrensch.chess.com, @dwallacewells.bsky.social & more mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

The Sunday Long Read: Scam, Flytraps, War on Cancer

Saving the Venus Flytrap: How One Woman Rallied a Town Around Its Weirdest Attraction

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 17d

Venus flytraps are native to an 80-mile stretch of North and South Carolina, but developers are threatening their survival. Luckily, a 78-year-old botanist is working to protect them. @jacobfeldman.bsky.social's favorite by Lindsey Liles in @gardenandgun.com gardenandgun.com/feature/venu...

Despite their outsize hold on popular imagination, Venus flytraps are native to a tiny corner of the globe: the Coastal Plain of the Carolinas. As development threatens, one town—spurred on by one tir...

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 17d

What better evidence do we need that the scammers coming for us are becoming increasingly sophisticated than a journalist whose beat is scams nearly getting scammed? @dvnjr.bsky.social's top pick by Michael Wilson for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/n...

I’ve Written About Loads of Scams. This One Almost Got Me.

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 17d

Scam, flytrap, war on cancer & more in this week's SLR mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

The Sunday Long Read: Scam, Flytraps, War on Cancer

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 22d

A last lifeline in ‘detention alley’

Most of immigration lawyer Christopher Kinnison’s clients in rural Louisiana are detainees. Every week, more calls come in, and Kinnison hasn’t been able to process what his days at work are becoming.

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 22d

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‘If I Live to 25, I’ve Lived a Good Life’

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The Sunday Long Read: Sea Disaster, Charlie Kirk, Zodiac Signs

The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 22d

"Hannah Dreier and @rubycramer.bsky.social's latest pieces bring human scale drama to often-difficult-to-grasp discussions of wildfires and immigration, full of details you could nearly reach out and touch." - @jacobfeldman.bsky.social on his top picks

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 22d

Check out this week's SLR featuring @rubycramer.bsky.social,
@ianwardreports.bsky.social, @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social,
@sethwickersham.bsky.social & more! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

The Superyacht, the Billionaire, and a Wildly Improbable Disaster at Sea

The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 24d

The final night of tech billionaire Mike Lynch’s life has become just another chew toy for online conspiracy theorists. With sweeping reporting and soaring story-telling, Bradley Hope avoids all the easy (and wrong) answers. @dvnjr.bsky.social's top pick via @wired.com www.wired.com/story/mike-l...

The last night of tech mogul Mike Lynch’s life has become fodder for conspiracy theories. For the first time, the whole story can be told.

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · 24d

A sea disaster, Charlie Kirk, zodiac signs & more in this week's SLR mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

The Sunday Long Read: Sea Disaster, Charlie Kirk, Zodiac Signs

The Sunday Long Read: Katherine Laidlaw, Bird Heist, Dr DeepSeek

The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · Sep 8

Check out guest editor Katherine Laidlaw's SLR featuring @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social, @violazhou.bsky.social, @ellyfishman.bsky.social, @c-cauterucci.bsky.social & more mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

The pigeon heist: How racing birds became the target of organized crime

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · Sep 7

"Platters stacked with cash, thieves making off with priceless pigeons in the night, wronged fanciers and devoted detectives. This crime caper has everything I could ask for in a story." -Guest editor Katherine Laidlaw's pick by Kevin Sieff @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Pigeon races in Chinese cities became opulent symbols of China’s economic boom, with purses over $100 million — exceeding most of the world’s major sports.

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The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · Sep 7

We're honored to hand today's edition over to guest editor Katherine Laidlaw. By day, she writes on business for The Hustle newsletter and by night on crime, gender, nature, and more for magazines like WIRED, Toronto Life, & Outside. Enjoy! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...

The Sunday Long Read: Katherine Laidlaw, Bird Heist, Dr DeepSeek

☀️ The Best True Crime Stories This Month

The Sunday Long Read @thesundaylongread.bsky.social · Sep 3

Our latest true crime spotlight, carefully curated monthly by author Kim Cross and The Sunday Long Read staff, is out -- don't miss it! mailchi.mp/sundaylongre...