Molly Lambert is a writer covering pop culture at Grantland. (She’s also featured in our Top 10 Longreads of 2011)

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These are some Longreads I enjoyed this year:

• “The Bell Jar At 40”: Emily Gould on Sylvia Plath (Poetry Foundation)

• “The J in J. Crew”: Molly Young on Jenna Lyons (New York magazine)

• “The Recessionary Charms Of American Horror Story”: Tess Lynch (Grantland)

• “The Movie Star”: Bill Simmons on Ryan Reynolds and Will Smith (Grantland)

• “Occasional Dispatches from the Republic of Anhedonia”: Colson Whitehead at The World Series Of Poker (Grantland)

• “Crass Warfare”: Emily Nussbaum on Whitney and 2 Broke Girls (The New Yorker)

• “Frantically Impure”: Alex Carnevale on Susan Sontag (This Recording)

• “Beauty”: Durga Chew-Bose on Barbara Loden (This Recording)

• “God Knows Where I Am”: Rachel Aviv (The New Yorker, sub. required)

• “What Women Want: Porn and the Frontier Of Female Sexuality”: Amanda Hess on James Deen (GOOD)

• “‘Make Me Proud’: Does Drake Actually Care About Women?”: Emma Carmichael (The Awl)

• “Free The Network”: Allison Bland (The Awl)

• “The Celebrity Rehab Of Dr. Drew”: by Natasha Vargas-Cooper (GQ)

 

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