week six: archives and collections

Earlier this week, I found a couple of handy websites that house (and link to) many creative non-fiction articles. Safe to say, I poured many hours into reading various pieces that piqued my interest in the past couple of days. Here are the three websites:

1. The Electric Typewriter

selected features, articles, and essays from the world's best journalist and writers.

I loved this one. It has a great collection of both essays and creative non-fiction pieces, which you can search for by subject, author, or tag. They even have a list of "111 Essential Articles and Essays We Think You Really Need To Read" under the Favourites section as well as other reading lists the website editors have compiled under Collections. Pretty neat!

2. The Atlantic

Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism

For something a little more serious, Conor Friedersdorf, a staff writer at The Atlantic, has compiled nearly 100 fantastic pieces of journalism, which are his personal picks for the best non-fiction of 2010. Breaking news come and go, but great essays/articles will never be forgotten. Readers can choose to read articles based on different topics such as "The Art of Storytelling", "Crime and Punishment", "Food", "This Is A Business", and more.

3. Long Reads

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This archive of long reads from all over the Web allows visitors to search for articles based on topics and article lengths. Here, you can find various kinds of articles that are of different lengths; some are approximately 15 minutes long (under 3,750 words), while others can take more than 60 minutes (over 15,000 words) to read. Long Reads links to new stories from various publications such as The Guardian and Esquire every day. I've read a few articles that were posted on the website, and, my, do they deliver what they promise. Long (but very interesting!) reads. 

Julia