When a woman and her daughter moved in next door, Jaquira Díaz found her world was suddenly turned upside down.

This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.

Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.

Ethan Chiel, Catherine Cusick, Aaron Gilbreath and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week:

My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me from the New York Times Magazine

Going Under at the Playboy Club at The New Republic

How America's Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery from The New York Times Magazine

The Race to Develop the Moon from The New Yorker

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Carina del Valle Schorske reads from her essay Dancing Backup: Puerto Ricans in the American Muchedumbre (which published last month on Longreads) about a lineage of Puerto Rican backup dancers in American entertainment from Rita Moreno to JLo.

Carina is then joined by the Longreads Editor Danielle A. Jackson for a conversation focusing on the piece.

This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Mike Rugnetta, with help from Danielle A. Jackson and Jason Oberholtzer. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.

Mixed and scored with original music by and Michael Simonelli.

Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.

Ethan Chiel, Catherine Cusick, Matt Giles and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week:

The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence at The Cut

In Conversation: Anjelica Huston at Vulture

The Raisin Situation from The New York Times

The Big Business of Spring Water at Topic

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Marcia Aldrich and Jill Talbot read their essay Someone Called Mother, about the secret selfs their mothers maintained up to and beyond their deaths.

This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer, with help from Whitney Donaldson and Krista Stevens. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.

Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.

Recorded at BARN Media Arts Studio and at KNTU at University of North Texas in Denton.

Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.

Sari Botton, Catherine Cusick and Dana Snitzky share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week:

Farewell to Payless and its terrible, no good, very cheap, occasionally meaningful shoes at The Outline

The Company That Sells Love to America Had a Dark Secret from The New York Time

The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona from The New Yorker

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Fact-Checkers assemble!

Longreads Head of Fact-Checking, Matt Giles, leads a discussion on sources — the unreliable ones, the hostile ones, the nervous ones and the ones one finds on Wikipedia.

Joining Matt are Longreads Editor-in-Chief Mike Dang, Seyward Darby (Editor-in-Chief, The Atavist Magazine) and Longreads Fact-Checker Ethan Chiel.

This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure. Produced by Jason Oberholtzer and Mike Rugnetta. Mixed by Michael Simonelli.

Longreads' theme music was written and performed by Brian Donohoe.

Catherine Cusick, Aaron Gilbreath, Krista Stevens and Kelly Stout share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

What's Behind the Elective-Sobriety Trend at elemental

How a tiny endangered species put a man in prison at High Country News

Lost at Sea at Harpers

The Curious Tale of the Salish Sea Feet at Longreads

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Sophie Lucido Johnson reads her essay How Does a Person Lose Track of Their Diary?, appearing in an illustrated version on Longreads.com, in which diary found in a used bookstore sets Johnson on a path she could never have expected.

This episode is a production of Longreads and Charts & Leisure, produced by Jason Oberholtzer with help from Sari Botton. Hosted by Catherine Cusick.

Recorded at BAM Studios in Chicago.

Mixed and scored with original music by Jason Oberholtzer and Michael Simonelli.

Aaron Gilbreath, Matt Giles, Danielle Jackson and Soraya Roberts share what they've been reading and nominate stories for the Weekly Top 5 Longreads.

This week's conversation includes:

What Remains from The California Sunday Magazine

Why black people discriminate among ourselves: the toxic legacy of colorism at The Guardian

Privileged at The Players' Tribune

On Flooding: Drowning the Culture in Sameness at Longreads

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