The Week’s Best Longreads: The Daily Beast Picks for Sept. 29, 2012
The Daily Beast picks the best journalism from around the Web this week. By David Sessions.
Mugglemarch Ian Parker, The New Yorker
J.K. Rowling writes a realist novel for adults.
Portrait of the Artist as a Postman Jason Sheeler, Texas Monthly
The only American designer for Hermès is a postman in Waco, Texas.
The Great New England Vampire Panic Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian
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How 19th-century American farmers became convinced that dead relatives could rise from their graves and feed on them as vampires.
The Cop Whisperer Ed Leibowitz, Los Angeles
Growing up in South L.A. was key training for David Ayer, the writer-director behind the LAPD saga End of Watch.
How Can We Stop Pedophiles? Jennifer Blyer, Slate
Stop treating them like monsters.
The Democrats’ Ronald Reagan Andrew Sullivan, Newsweek
With his first term behind him, Obama is poised to be as significant a president as Reagan—tackling the deficit, spearheading immigration reform, and jolting the GOP back to sanity.
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