Kick Back With a Long Read

In a world where soundbites and tweetstorms fight for our eyeballs, it’s good for the brain to settle down with a long read now and then. Go old school with Anthony Bourdain’s eye-opening 1999 New Yorker debut, “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” or Gay Talese’s seminal “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” from the April 1966 issue of Esquire. Or keep things current with the trove of unapologetically long — and predictably brilliant — essays from Aeon.

This sharable snippet comes from the April 7 edition of Corcoran’s Home/Office e-newsletter.