Sean Patrick Cooper

Fingers crossed for the continued interest in long form/literary journalism. 

My hunch is that there will always be readers. And there will be people willing and able to create the good content. I’m less sure but still hopeful that there will be professional platforms to pay and support the writers who provide content for these readers.

thirteenny:

“… to the over-capacity crowd at Housing Works Bookstore and Cafe, the panelists may as well have been rockstars themselves. Fueled by the recent rise of Long Reads and other online aggregators, lengthy professional journalism is enjoying a flurry of new appreciation…” via Bookish

 “There’s a human need to hear stories, it’s a very satisfying way to get information. Whether that medium is an article or television or a movie or some kind of three-month long Twitter feed, it doesn’t matter.”