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By Emily M. Keeler posted at 4:30 pm on April 12, 2012 0

A #mediumread on the origin of #longreads and longform.org.

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Emily M. Keeler is the editor of Little Brother Magazine, and the #LitBeat editor for The Millions. She also acts as the Toronto editor for Joyland. And she tweets, too.

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