'While scientists have figured out extraordinary ways to keep patients who can’t eat alive, they haven’t yet figured out how to deal with what it does to us mentally.' #longreads

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Your weekend read: an essay by Montserrat Andrée Carty on growing up with her name, Montserrat.

'We seek to become the truest version of ourselves, but what if there isn’t one true version, but multiple? Like father, like daughter, there are two versions of me.'

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'The participants became increasingly focused on food, collecting recipes, and taking down pin-ups of women to hang pictures of food.'
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'Her first name is markedly American, whereas mine, Spanish. She grew up (mostly) in Spain, I grew up (mostly) in the US. We were a coin toss: hers fell one way, mine the other.'

In this week's new essay, Montserrat Andrée Carty writes about language and identity:

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'There was something “honorable” in the way Mauney always chose the hardest ride, Murray observes, even though he didn’t need to.' —Sally Jenkins for The Washington Post. #longreads

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'Sound is exciting—it changes the world. But it has to stop now and then. Without spaces in between, you cannot parse the words. Without stretches of silence, you cannot hear yourself or anyone else.' —Jeanette Cooperman for The Common Reader commonreader.wustl.edu/c/variations-o…

'You may think urban animals are gross, but we are the ones filling the city with trash.'

Benji Jones Vox #longreads

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'Later he wondered whether the people in the forest had been 'brainwashed' into killing themselves.'

Carey Baraka, The Economist’s 1843 magazine #longreads

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'Food is a form of communication. Without it, you are adrift and missing a functional language.' #longreads

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'The Appeal’s investigation reveals that incarcerated people in many states are charged significantly more for essential items than those outside prison even though they typically earn pennies an hour—or no wages at all.'

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 Ethan Corey

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I’m so excited to have my personal essay “My Name Is a Mountain” published in Longreads ! Thank you to the editorial team––especially Cheri Lucas Rowlands, for editing the piece with such care. ♥️

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'Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, around 4,000 Greek children were adopted abroad, mostly by Americans — and often in questionable circumstances.'

Jessica Bateman POLITICO #longreads

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'Today, my dad speaks perfect English and Spanish, along with Portuguese, but the way these languages live in him is not the same.'

For @longreads, Montserrat Andrée Carty writes about Spain, language, and ultimately embracing her name, Montserrat.

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'What does it feel like to speak your primary language in an accent from your secondary one? I would later find out.'

In today's new Longreads essay, Montserrat Andrée Carty writes about language, identity, and eventually embracing different versions of herself.

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