Cheri Lucas Rowlands
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Northern California, CA, United States
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Calling All Writers: Pitch Us Your Reading Lists
Seeing readers cheer for the authors we honored in last month’s Best of 2021 series reminded us that curating excellent writing has a positive influence — on readers and writers. As we said in a recent thread compiling the year's reading lists, curiosity, curation, and community remain at the core of Longreads in 2022. Our… → Read More
Holiday Gift Guide: 8 Books We Excerpted on Longreads in 2021
A short list of books we loved (and featured) this year. → Read More
There Are No Seasons: A Reading List on Loss, Love, and Living with Fire in California
Six personal essays about or inspired by wildfire. → Read More
Curator Spotlight: Vesna Jaksic Lowe on What It Means To Straddle Multiple Cultures
The writer of the Immigrant Strong newsletter wants to diversify your bookshelf. → Read More
Longreads Best of 2020: Essays
A small sampling of standout essays published this year. → Read More
Longreads Best of 2020: Writing on COVID-19
Our top story picks in COVID-19 reporting this year. → Read More
‘Social Media Managers Are First Responders’
“They’re on the front lines of a relentless and overwhelming news cycle that is pushing them to the edge.” → Read More
‘Intelligent Education’ and China’s Grand AI Experiment
Seven schools in China have installed facial recognition technology in classrooms to monitor — and score — their students. At The Disconnect, Yujie Xue reports on this "intelligent education" initiative. → Read More
A Rare Toy Heist, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
In 2017, the theft of a rare toy — a Boba "Rocket" Fett prototype that was never released for sale — rocked the Star Wars collecting community. → Read More
‘We All Live in the Great Database in the Sky’: On Silicon Valley and UFO Culture
"The idea seems to be that we all live in the great database in the sky, occasionally summoning aliens with our minds." Emily Harnett explores Silicon Valley’s appropriation of UFO culture. → Read More
‘Leaving the Bay Area is the Best Thing You Can Do Right Now, If You Have a Dream’
In the Bay Area, there are two migrations: young people in tech moving in, ready to disrupt, and young people with other dreams -- the artists, teachers, blacksmiths, therapists, mechanics, musicians -- who leave because there's no longer a place for them. → Read More
A Reading List to Celebrate World Breast Pumping Day
Here's a reading list to celebrate World Breast Pumping Day on January 27. → Read More
Sacrificed for the Super Bowl: The Wiping Out of an Atlanta Neighborhood
Thirty years ago, the entire community of Lightning was destroyed to build the Georgia Dome. This oral history, told by displaced residents, compiles memories of a long-gone neighborhood. → Read More
“Welcome to the House of Horrors”: When IP Address Mapping Goes Wrong
John and his mother Ann, who live in a house in Pretoria, South Africa, were two victims of faulty IP address mapping — and the U.S. government played a big role in the mess. → Read More
‘I’m Not Saving These Pit Bulls—They Are Saving Me’
Jason Flatt's animal rescue operation, Friends to the Forlorn, has saved 600 dogs and counting since 2009 and specializes in rescuing pit bills. → Read More
Growing Up in Rural Washington as a Muslim Immigrant
Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in the Palouse region of Washington State. → Read More
What the Future of Death Looks Like
A look at the process of alkaline hydrosis, a more eco-friendly type of cremation, and the growing movement behind it. → Read More
The Beauty (and Predictability) of a Slot Machine’s Algorithm
At Wired, Brendan Koerner takes a look into the mind of a mathematician-turned-hacker who milks slot machines around the world. → Read More
‘A Boy with No Backstory’: One Teenager’s Transition
For three years, Casey Parks chronicled the life of Jay, a transgender teenager in Washington State. This is the first installment in a three-part series for the Oregonian. → Read More
“Oakland Used to Be More Funky”: Where Have All the Artists Gone?
The staff at Laney Tower take a close look at the past, present, and future of Oakland's artistic community. → Read More