Longreads Launches Travelreads

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.21.12 | 10:43 AM ET

It’s always nice to see long-form travel writing get some love on the manic, impatient, impulsive internets.

Today, Longreads, the website that curates longer stories with excerpts and links, launched a travel section.

Among the stories now featured are a Susan Orlean piece on Bangkok’s Khao San Road, an Ernest Hemingway dispatch from the Spanish Civil War and a John Jeremiah Sullivan article about Disney World. A couple of World Hum pieces are in the mix, too.

Jodi Ettenberg of Legal Nomads is contributing her curatorial powers to the operation. Readers can suggest stories to include via Twitter, posting links with the hashtag #travelreads. The site defines a “longread” as something typically more than 1,500 words.