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More Than a Feeling: A Blues Reading List
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. By Chris Wheatley “Before Elvis there was nothing,” John Lennon famously once said about his own musical...
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The Substance of Silence: A Reading List About Hermits
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. By Chris Wheatley Call them recluses, hermits, or even solitudinarians, examples of folk choosing to live a...
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‘This Stuff is Alive’: A Global Folk Music Reading List
From left: Said Ag Ayad of Tuareg ensemble Tinariwen; Finnish singer Marja Mortensson; a Tuvan throat singer of the Alash Ensemble; Galbadrakh “Gala” Tsendbaatar of Mongolian folk-metal band The Hu....
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More Than Just an Object: A Collector’s Reading List
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. The bowerbird, which lives on the east coast of Australia, has an abiding eye for anything blue. Solitary...
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Pawns, Puppet Heads, and Paranoia: An Eccentrics Reading List
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. “They’re a little eccentric” is a phrase I suspect most of us have heard used to describe a certain kind of...
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Into the Abyss: An Extreme Sports Reading List
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. In 2012, Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner stepped from a tiny platform into empty air, 24 miles above the...
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Working on the Edge: A Reading List About Extreme Jobs
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. The past few years have drastically changed how we think about our relationship to work, perhaps permanently....
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Watch the Skies: A UFO Believers Reading List
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Long before the 1947 Roswell incident brought “little green men” into the public consciousness and prompted an...
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A Hunger for Strangeness: A Cryptids Reading List
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. Late one night many years ago, my sister was driving home through the leafy roads of South East England when a...
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Digital Havoc: A Reading List About Hacking
This story was funded by our members. Join Longreads and help us to support more writers. It’s 1983. The original Mario Bros. video game is released. Michael Jackson’s Thriller reaches the top of the...
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