As if we all need yet another source of great long articles that we don’t have time to read, right? Well, maybe someone really might. I stumbled into #longreads on Twitter and found a link to an amazing interview with John McPhee from the Spring 2010 Paris Review (which, regrettably, I don’t read religiously or otherwise). Nice twist that Twitter unlocks the vanishing world of long-form journalism, but to me that’s Twitter’s great strength anyway, as a pointer. Looking into it further I found that David Carr wrote about the same phenomenon recently. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/business/media/28carr.html
Also check out http://longform.org/ which lists great stories by category — culture, politics, etc.
That McPhee article that was worth every bit of the 90 minutes I spent reading it last night?
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5997/the-art-of-nonfiction-no-3-john-mcphee