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Before he sits down to write, Pravesh Bhardwaj looks for inspiration. Nearly every day, he reads a short story freely…

Will McCarthy | Longreads | January 2023 | 12 minutes (3,313 words) Somewhere near the center of Nevada, on the…

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Lisa Bubert | Longreads | November 30, 2022 | 11 minutes (3,072 words) When I was 19, a nursing home…

Jason Guriel | On Browsing | November 2022 | 4,361 words (15 minutes) Let’s browse a bookstore—a Platonic one, a composite. Let’s…

Last weekend, a friend forwarded me a video. I clicked on the link nonchalantly, expecting a joyful puppy or perhaps…

Christian Livermore | We Are Not Okay | October 2022 | 5,780 words (21 minutes) “Perhaps home is not a place but…

As the son of a librarian and a university professor, I can barely remember a childhood that didn’t involve books.…

Keshia Naurana Badalge  | Longreads | July 2022 | 10 minutes (3,285 words) For each year that I move around the…