LongForm's Top Ten Articles of 2013

IMO, Longform is one of the best websites out there. It links to a few longer stories a day.

I've only made it through the first one - it's a doozy - all of the feels.


1. Into the Lonely Quiet - The Barden family after Newtown.


2. The Impossible Refugee Boat Lift to Christmas Island - Along for the ride with a boatload of refugees risking their lives.


3. The Elvis Impersonator, the Karate Instructor, a Fridge Full of Severed Heads, and the Plot 2 Kill the President - A rivalry gone awry.


4. Thanksgiving in Mongolia - Heartbreak at the edge of the earth.

5. The End and Don King - The crumbling of an American icon.


6. Invisible Child - The story of one of New York City’s 22,000 homeless children.


7. Jahar's World - The multiple lives of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.


8. 19: The True Story of the Yarnell Fire - How 19 of the 20 Granite Mountain Hotshots lost their lives.


9. The American Cloud - How America’s heartland powers its coastal fantasies.


10. Blood Spore - The murder of magic mushroom pioneer Steven Pollock.

Such a great website. I love longform articles so much.

oof. just read the first one. Probably a poor choice for the office.

i know this article is from 2012, but it's one of the best pieces of longform journalism i've ever read: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek (Snow Fall - the avalanche at tunnels peak). amazingly done from a digital standpoint too.

Deacfan2009 said:

i know this article is from 2012, but it's one of the best pieces of longform journalism i've ever read: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek (Snow Fall - the avalanche at tunnels peak). amazingly done from a digital standpoint too.

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The NYTimes has really done some groundbreaking stuff with their digital features - Good to see at least one of the traditional newspapers try to go beyond just publishing their print stories online.

Deacfan2009 said:

i know this article is from 2012, but it's one of the best pieces of longform journalism i've ever read: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek (Snow Fall - the avalanche at tunnels peak). amazingly done from a digital standpoint too.

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Yes- I love (well, love is a weird word for this particular article) this piece. So incredibly well done.

Longreads is a good follow on the twitter

Here's another one that didn't make the list. Another amazing story with a great digital presentation.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/may/26/firestorm-bushfire-dunalley-holmes-family

...just spent the last ~3 hours reading Invisible Child.


Damn.

This was the best longread I read all year - Bad Blood - about the poisoning of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko back in 2006. One of the best pieces of journalism I have ever read, frankly.

This was another standout from about a year ago, but it recently became free: Do No Harm, about people with Body Integrity Identity Disorder, in which people desperately want to have a healthy limb amputated.