Cheri Lucas Rowlands
@cherilucasrowlands.com
Senior editor, @longreads.com.
"All my algorithms are tuned to perfection. . . . I spend so much time within a prison of my own preferences that it has become a relief to be offered things I would never want." We're all living in the world QVC built, writes Hannah Engler Harvey @longreads.com: longreads.com/2026/07/30/q...
You and Me and QVC - Longreads
How a home shopping channel became the soundtrack to a friendship.
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"Above all, a pasalubong is an apology for your absence, something for those who waited and prayed for your return." In "The Cousin Returns," a chapter from LUCKY CREATURES, Joseph Trinidad recounts a visit home to the Philippines: longreads.com/2026/06/16/l...
The Cousin Returns - Longreads
On coming home to the Philippines.
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Happy to see this @longreads.com story, about the Marshall Islands' first national ⚽ team, out in the world. Thanks to Springdale, Arkansas-based writer @jordanphickey.bsky.social for pitching me this piece—and for writing it with the care, heart, and empathy as he always does.
Longreads@longreads.com · 4mo agoWhat does “home” mean for a nation scattered across land and sea? In “The Wayfinders,” @jordanphickey.bsky.social follows the Marshall Islands’ first national soccer team as it comes together in Springdale, Arkansas—and discovers belonging on and off the field. longreads.com/2026/04/21/m...
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
Sorry I'm late. There was an online form and I had to scroll to my birth year.
losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice
A little offended Grammarly didn't make a sloppelganger of me
"Some people measure home by a skyline or sound; I measure it by what gets into my sinuses." @anamariecox.bsky.social for @texashighways.bsky.social: texashighways.com/culture/find...
Finding a Sense of Place in the Discomfort of Cedar Fever
A rush of allergy-inducing nostalgia welcomes a writer back to Central Texas
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What five items would you place in a time capsule? Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and maybe Mohammed bin Salman, to be opened, carefully, with precautions, in the year 3026.
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit - Longreads
The author of The Beginning Comes After the End talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using.
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"I’m against the 'one thing' framework. I’m a braid of a thousand threads of ideas and experiences and oppressions and opportunities and transformations." @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social answers the latest @longreads.com questionnaire: longreads.com/2026/03/04/q...
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Rebecca Solnit - Longreads
The author of The Beginning Comes After the End talks about jackrabbits, her own “informational hypervigilance,” and the one word she won’t stop using.
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For years I've been reading @mariapopova.bsky.social Back in the day she wrote as Brain Pickings. An extraordinary amount of work goes into her posts, which highlight culture and writers. #ff
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Maria Popova - Longreads
The creator of The Marginalian and author of the new book Traversal responds to 25 questions on writing, reading, and creativity.
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"Out of 365 days, why this one? I was afraid Tomm would’ve resented sharing the day with his nephew, or, worse, that I’d collapse their souls into one." A brother lost, a son born, and the strange arithmetic of love. A new essay by Maria Zorn: longreads.com/2026/02/24/m...
35 and 1 - Longreads
A brother lost, a son born, and the strange arithmetic of love.
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20 years ago, when I started thinking about *how* I wanted to create and write online, I looked to Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings (now The Marginalian) for inspiration. Thrilled to have Maria kick off our new @longreads.com questionnaire series: longreads.com/2026/02/17/q...
The Longreads Questionnaire, Featuring Maria Popova - Longreads
The creator of The Marginalian and author of the new book Traversal responds to 25 questions on writing, reading, and creativity.
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"The American tourist is curious about your gelato and is disappointed you can’t give him cold brew." Francesco Pacifico for @thedialmag.bsky.social: www.thedial.world/articles/new...
Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? — The Dial
How American tourists took over everything.
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huge thanks to @cherilucasrowlands.com for citing my essay in this week's Longreads Top 5: "Like the fish, it seems to emerge from nothing."
Longreads@longreads.com · 7mo agoWelcome to 2026! In this week's Top 5: —January begins @theatlantic.com —Finding beauty @thebeliever.net —Powerful blues @oxfordamerican.bsky.social —Toxic water @orionmagazine.bsky.social —Begonia baton @theobserveruk.bsky.social
omg that's my face 🫣 ⬇️ if anything, you'll at least know how to correctly pronounce the first syllable of my last name
Automattic@automattic.com · 9mo agoWhat keeps a brilliant editor like @cherilucasrowlands.com coming back to Automattic after 13 years? Hint: it’s not just the work—it’s the people, the mission, and the freedom to create from anywhere. 🌍 If that resonates, we’re hiring! 👀
"The remix doesn’t say I can do this better, at least not always. The remix says I want to spend more time with you, I want to see the light fall on you from every possible angle." Hanif Abdurraqib on Groove Theory and R&B and sunset drives: longreads.com/2025/10/23/g...
30 Years Later: Groove Theory, “Groove Theory” - Longreads
"Groove Theory" tries to make the work of staying in love feel as easy as possible, even when it isn’t.
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The internet is loud. In a world of endless feeds and content that fades, our stories matter more than ever. Help us publish writing that outlasts the noise—stories that linger and pair well with your morning cup of coffee. More about the @longreads.com member drive: longreads.com/2025/10/15/2...
For @longreads.com, I wrote a personal essay about AI Holocaust testimony, my grandmother, memory, and memory loss longreads.com/2025/09/25/a...
Uncanny Testimony - Longreads
As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.
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These words from @cherilucasrowlands.com made me happy: "After reading a series of articles lamenting the death of higher education and critical thinking in the age of ChatGPT, I tempered my despair with Simon Lewsen’s somewhat hopeful essay on the humanities" longreads.com/2025/09/10/d...
The Humanities Aren’t Dead Yet - Longreads
"Enrollment in the liberal arts has been in freefall for years. But despite apocalyptic declarations about the end of the humanities, in my own classroom I see signs of life."
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Longreads@longreads.com · 11mo ago"I didn’t expect any of this, and I’m unsure what to make of it. But I wonder if the emerging threat of AI is restoring a sense of vitality to the humanistic mission." @simonlewsen.bsky.social for @thelocal.to: thelocal.to/humanities-i...
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
"The California I wanted doesn’t exist. It was never a place, with all of a place’s complex webs of land and culture." Sublime was part of my life's soundtrack from ~1997-98, so there's a lot in @caylinct.bsky.social's new @longreads.com essay—on Bradley Nowell, addiction, and limits—that I love.
Longreads@longreads.com · last yr.Today at Longreads, Caylin Capra-Thomas writes about Sublime and the sublime, Bradley Nowell and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, addiction and loss and recovery, what we yearn for and what limits we touch longreads.com/2025/05/22/s...
Someone asked if I consider myself neurodivergent, and I think it's probably best to describe myself with some astrological-like phrasing: I'm Neurotypical with ADHD rising, if you get my drift, just like I'm an Introvert but my moon is in Social Butterfly.
Some exciting personal news: Looks like the @longreads.com piece that I wrote about Amanda Arafat and her family was named a #JamesBeard finalist in profile writing this morning. Thrilled and humbled because that's some pretty impressive company to be in — but especially glad that this very 1/3
"Dry-erase ink is not similar to tattoo ink, but it is almost identical to ink from a permanent marker. And if you leave it on a surface for long enough, especially a porous surface, it will remain." A new essay by Aaron Rabinowitz:
The Inked and Invisible Scars that History Leaves Behind
In a world where memory is porous, how do we recognize the signs of history repeating?
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