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Weekend Reading: ASME Edition

Get started on your weekend reading with our five ASME-nominated pieces from 2011:

“A Murder Foretold” by David Grann: http://nyr.kr/ed7wwU

“The Apostate” by Lawrence Wright: http://nyr.kr/Hs5jf9

“Getting Bin Laden” by Nicholas Schmidle: http://nyr.kr/qvcTzm

“The Aquarium” by Aleksandar Hemon: http://nyr.kr/jdTco3

“The Invisible Army” by Sarah Stillman: http://nyr.kr/Hf0Z8I

This weekend, I plan to re-read all five pieces. This will be my third time re-reading “The Aquarium.” I tried to read it at work but I had to stop since reading into the third paragraph, my heart was already beating its life out, I could feel the pounding cre. The piece still haunts me with such agony and power. It is painfully beautiful. I can’t wait to get on my sister’s reading chair soak in the afternoon sun and the words. 

Ah. Just the thought of it makes me….  swoon @_@~ 

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  1. onthechanggang reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    So many good pieces last year, congrats New Yorker! Ps. READ the Lawrence Wright if you haven’t already- it will blow...
  2. ankurthakkar reblogged this from newyorker
  3. acadiennefille reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    I also suggest some reading in McSweeney’s when one gets the chance.
  4. annloves reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    This weekend, I plan to re-read all five pieces. This will be my third time re-reading “The Aquarium.” I tried to read...
  5. fivebrights reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    Only one of these I haven’t read yet; catching up now, and I may even re-read A Murder Foretold…that one was something...
  6. theskypainter reblogged this from newyorker
  7. testingdistance reblogged this from newyorker and added:
    “A Murder Foretold” by David Grann is the reason I read. Read it. Read.