Category: Letter from the Editors

by The Editors October 7, 2018 0

Introducing The Sunday Long Read Membership Program

Hello! After months of research and deliberation, today we welcomed the first Sunday Long Read members. You can read moreContinue Reading

by The Editors September 15, 2018 0

Letter from the Editors

New look, same old us

In case you hadn’t noticed – our website looks a little different! The newsletter has grown so much since weContinue Reading

by The Editors March 19, 2017 0

Letter from the Editors

Our 100th Letter!

NOTE: If you’re just joining us, you can subscribe to our Sunday Long Read newsletter here. Today, we sent outContinue Reading

by The Editors January 30, 2017 0

Letter from the Editors

Welcoming Our Newest Contributing Editors

Since bringing on an amazing crop of contributing editors last year, we’ve enjoyed reading their turns as guest curators (youContinue Reading

by The Editors January 30, 2017 0

Letter from the Editors

Fan Letters: A Collection

Here, you can find the excellent Fan Letters our subscribers have sent in. If you want one of your favoriteContinue Reading

January 27, 2019 - Gideon Lewis-Kraus is a writer at large for the New York Times Magazine, a contributing writer at WIRED, and a contributing editor at Harper’s. He’s the author of a travel memoir called A Sense of Direction, and he teaches nonfiction in the Graduate Writing Program at Columbia. Here, he talks with Jacob about ideal story length (100 pages, anyone?), why it took months to work out the structure of his latest NYT Magazine piece, how he uses detail, and more. You can find his work here.