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An Untamed State: The Opening Chapters from Roxane Gay's New Novel
Roxane Gay | An Untamed State | May 2014 | 11 minutes (2,742 words) * * * Roxane Gay’s new novel, An Untamed State, is out this week, and we’re excited to present the opening chapters with the...
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'Friendship': The Full First Chapter from Emily Gould's New Novel
Emily Gould | Friendship | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | July 2014 | 8 minutes (1,893 words) Below is the opening chapter of Friendship, the new novel by Emily Gould, who we’ve featured often on...
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Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Prep,’ 10 Years Later
Sari Botton | Longreads | March 2015 It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld’s debut novel, was first published. And not just because the passage of time, in hindsight,...
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Escape from Baghdad!: Saad Hossain’s New Satire of the Iraq War
Saad Hossain | Escape from Baghdad! | Unnamed Press | March 2015 | 23 minutes (6,311 words) Below are the opening chapters of the novel Escape from Baghdad!, by Saad Hossain, as recommended by...
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The Woes of the Corporate Anthropologist
In classical anthropology, there’s a rigid distinction between “field” and “home.” Field’s where you go to do your research, immersing yourself, sometimes at great personal risk, in a maelstrom of raw,...
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The Girl Who Slept with God
Val Brelinski |The Girl Who Slept with God | Viking | August 2015 | 9 minutes (2,100 words) Below is an excerpt from the debut novel by Val Brelinski, as chosen by Longreads contributing editor Sari...
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