BuzzReads: 9 Stories We're Reading This Week

Amelia Earhart didn't fly around the world. But Jerrie Mock, an Ohio housewife, did. Sunday's In-Depth Feature Stories The Untold Story Of The First Woman To Fly Around The World Jerrie Mock was a 38-year-old housewife from Columbus, Ohio, when, 50 years ago this week, she accomplished what Amelia Earhart is famous for having failed to do. But in the decades since, as Mock’s life began to unravel, history all but forgot the pilot who made it. Read it on BuzzFeed More Longform Stories We're Reading... Love And Fire: How A Troubled Romance Fueled A String Of Nearly 80 Arsons — The Washington Post My Childhood In An Apocalyptic Cult — Narratively The New Face Of Heroin — Rolling Stone Looking For Tom Lehrer, Comedy’s Mysterious Genius — BuzzFeed A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure Of The Startup That Was Going To Change The World — Fast Company Year Of The Pigskin: A Season With The American Football League Of China — The New Republic The Truth About Chicago’s Crime Rates — Chicago Magazine The Massively Comprehensive Guide To The Life And Times Of KISS — Grantland Get more stories on BuzzFeed What's hot on BuzzFeed This BuzzFeed email was sent to dwyld.kwu.yq4b5l8av2dw7@blogger.com | Unsubscribe Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up to get BuzzFeed in your inbox BuzzFeed, Inc. 200 Fifth Ave, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010