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“Travel has the capacity to crack us wide open, and it’s the same with sorrow—so a confluence of the two can lead to really profound breakthroughs.”
@laviniaspalding.bsky.social on grief, levity, and the travel stories she hopes to read more of in the future:
“I see how stories suffer when a writer attempts to fit the play-by-play of an entire experience into a few thousand words.”
@laviniaspalding.bsky.social, editor of "The Best Women's Travel Writing," shares what editing the series has taught her: longreads.com/2026/06/11/w...
"Even the parts that seemed nearly finished didn’t match the rest. Names of characters keep changing. Scene 9, at the end, is sometimes called Scene 1." Jesse Green, chief theater critic for @nytimes.com, on recovering Thornton Wilder's evasive masterpiece
"Without getting too nostalgic about it, these readings will make you revisit the forgotten, sometimes wonderful feelings that go with friction."
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"I asked them if they did this kind of thing often. First time, they said, and pointed out that this study only recruited first-timers. Your body’s data was only valuable once." —Max Callimanopulos for @nplusonemag.com
"The limits of human reality have always been human perception." Read @jennitaur.bsky.social on strategies for perception beyond human limits, and what we stand to learn
Happy to be among these friction/non-friction writers! Thx @longreads.com and Courtney!
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"If he spots someone chewing gum in a car next to him during his commute, he stares straight ahead."
Sloane Crosley for @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The human hand has twenty-nine bones and twenty-nine major joints. It contains over one hundred ligaments, connected to thirty-four muscles in the palm alone, each one responsible for the minute…
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The editor of The Best Women's Travel Writing series on curation, grief and levity, and the stories she hopes to read more of in the future.
