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    The Best of 2019 series begins! Here’s every No. 1 story from our weekly Top 5 emails this year:

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    “Sometime around the year 1694, a ship wrecked near the foot of a mountain in Oregon.“ tells the story of that ship and its missing treasure in the latest —and you WON’T see the plot twist coming.

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    Finally watched THE PAPER off the strength of this tweet, it is wonderful! In a just world it would also have been a premium cable series that ran for six years. Just a stacked cast with a script that whips things along. Free to stream through libraries on Hoopla!

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    Feb 1

    Looking for a weekend escape? Here's a yarn about a 300-year-old shipwreck, lost treasure, "geriatric Goonies," and one woman's quixotic quest to tell the full story.

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    Feb 2

    "Sometimes mourning before a vast and obscure crowd can be liberating and fulfilling, other times, it’s a lonely enterprise." This, by Rachel Vorona Cote for , is great on the role social media plays in how we grieve.

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    Jan 31

    This was a wild read. You should read it. Then, once you've realized how great Leah is, you should go listen to both seasons of Bundyville.

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    Jan 29

    My latest story in 1859 Magazine profiles the Bundyville podcast. Amazing reporting by ⁦⁩ . If you haven’t given it a listen yet, I highly recommend you do!

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    Jan 29

    Some big Everything Is Illuminated feelings. An eerie and great piece in memory and artifacts.

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    Jan 31

    "what makes you more pliable than mental instability?" ICYMI i wrote about competitive sports trading athletes' psychological health for profit:

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    Feb 1

    I need twenty more years worth of this article. Read it 3 times already. More please.

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    When says she wants to write about a 300-year-old shipwreck + a treasure + a woman who devoted years of her life to it, you assign that story and thank the gods she approached you first.

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    Jan 31

    ”The black men in 1970s Pittsburgh who formed America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives — starting with their own.” via

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    "Elegy in Times Square" is in the newsletter, which includes pieces by , + others. A year later, I'm still so moved by the hands that held mine while I mined such grief. More to come on this tender topic? Who knows. 💔🏳️‍🌈

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    Thank you so much for including me in this week's Friday email <3

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    Jan 31

    “It was immediate, it was visceral, it was absolute, it came without warning. And it has never ended.” An obsessive quest for lost treasure. Words by , illustrations by :

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    Jan 31

    exciting news: the sword earrings go perfectly with my Queens of Infamy shirt cc:

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    Jan 31

    "This ... does not just wrestle with the work, but also wrestles with the work within the world, parsing the way it reflects, feeds, fights — or none of the above — the various intersections of our circumstances." on the role of criticism.

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    As a kid in Oregon, I was obsessed with the Goonies. As an adult, I found my own sort of Goonies adventure on the Oregon coast, and I wrote about it for The .

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