Weekend Longreads
Oct. 18th, 2014 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendi1. From Buzzfeed (which yes, does do real journalism, even if it's not what the site's known for), here's what it's like to have drug-resistant tuberculosis these days.
2. The California Sunday Magazine has a heartbreaking article on a Peruvian reality show, the notoriety of fame, and murder.
3. Over at Vox, here's a story about the upcoming obsolescence of our urban water systems.
4. At Medium, Josh Ozersky writes about the pernicious influence MFK Fisher has had on the current state of food writing. I'm not always in agreement here -- I think he's a little too casual in writing off the exceptions (himself included) as being so rare, and I actually do like Fisher's writing -- but it's well worth a read.
5. Also at Medium, The Triumphs and Tragedies of Larry Smith discusses one of the pivotal -- and often forgotten -- hip-hop producers of the '80s.
2. The California Sunday Magazine has a heartbreaking article on a Peruvian reality show, the notoriety of fame, and murder.
3. Over at Vox, here's a story about the upcoming obsolescence of our urban water systems.
4. At Medium, Josh Ozersky writes about the pernicious influence MFK Fisher has had on the current state of food writing. I'm not always in agreement here -- I think he's a little too casual in writing off the exceptions (himself included) as being so rare, and I actually do like Fisher's writing -- but it's well worth a read.
5. Also at Medium, The Triumphs and Tragedies of Larry Smith discusses one of the pivotal -- and often forgotten -- hip-hop producers of the '80s.