be forewarned: a lot of these are #longreads. a lot of the links in this edition are amazing older articles that i recently found or revisited.
- A Pickpocket’s Tale (New Yorker) — this guy’s picture is in the dictionary under prestidigitation
- Why the “Friend Zone” is Bullshit (Foz Meadows) — how “nice guys” are the worst
- Getting Over Girl Hate (Rookie) — an argument for love
- The Loading Dock Manifesto (Esquire) — a Cleveland writer on how he lives — amazing writing
- Transit Byzantium (Believer) — an amazing story about a reclusive Cleveland singer-songwriter
- The Percentages: A Biography of Class (Tiger Beatdown) — on growing up working class in Ohio
- The Master Book of All Plots (Brain Pickings) — 1,462 plots catalogued by a dime novelist
- Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek (New York Times) — incredible reporting and an incredible interactive design package
grace dobush 