Georgia Cloepfil is only in her mid-twenties, but she already contemplating the end of her soccer career.
n+1
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Beat the Clock
“Halls of fame and records and medals and posters belong to fans. Athletes do not mythologize the body in this way. What they do is navigate decay.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
In Bed-Stuy, the Ghost of Robert Moses is Alive and Well
Gentrification is about displacement — but also about marketing and invisibility.
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A Price Point that Would Guarantee Exclusivity
In Brooklyn, historically black Bedford-Stuyvesant has been experiencing rapid gentrification: “As a new order has emerged, the ghosts of the previous one are everywhere, but their echoes are getting smaller, snuffed out by the tides.”
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Sports
The Unnecessary Beauty of Ice Hockey
Kent Russell loves hockey. A lot. I don’t, but Russell’s writing about the game is utterly engrossing
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Fighting With Their Fists to Put a Period in a Basket
“Hockey has no reason for being. Rather, hockey’s one of those things that give reason to being.”
Posted inNonfiction, Top 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
This week, we’re featuring stories from Richard Beck, Rebecca Mead, Sarah Barker, Dylan Matthews, and Sarah Scoles.
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Leave Them Alone! A Reading List On Celebrity and Privacy
Why do we feel like we own celebrities—not just their art or their products, but their images and their personal lives?
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Screw You, and the Icelandic Pony You Rode In On
Novelist Nell Zink, in n+1, takes readers on a rambling but sharp journey through writers and novels of the 20th century in the name of exploring realism, compassion, and justice in fiction.
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Writing for Rejection (and Reading Doris Lessing)
On reality, writing, publishing, fiction, non-fiction, Doris Lessing, and femininity: a writer muses on writing that impacted her, and what it means to write fiction at all.