February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Holiday Fire Hazards
I presented her with the gift, a slim box about twelve inches long and four inches wide. It was wrapped in the only thing I could find in Chinatown — a garish red and yellow paper sprinkled with a pattern of tiny dark green branches that were probably supposed to be mistletoe but which looked like little pieces of burnt spinach. Perhaps, with a better grade of printer’s ink, the...
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Our Top 15 (16!) Longreads of 2011 →
theawl:
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November 2011
8 posts
The Morality of Debt
Via the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities:
This interview, done by Kevin Depew over at Minyanville, is your read for this Thanksgiving weekend..
In the Minyanville interview, Graeber says:
And one of the things that really fascinated me was the moral power of the idea of debt. I would tell stories to people, very sympathetic people, liberal lawyers, well-meaning do-gooder types,...
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Anonymous asked: Can you write a thriller on a full stomach?
Anonymous asked: What would be a great screen name for me?
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My Ted Talk - The Power of Disaccomplishment
The Power of Disaccomplishment
About seven years ago I found myself riding a bus in New York City. When I say found, I mean, literally, found, because I just happened to wake up and there I was, on a bus, somewhere uptown best as I could tell, and without shoes, money, wallet, any sort of identification whatsoever. It was about that time, just as we approached the Kingsbridge bus depot in the...
October 2011
22 posts
bbredux:
How many “consultants” were brought in to vet that manuscript? And why didn’t they leave that one crucial aspect as the author originally intended? I’m telling you it would have been a better book, but nobody would have bought it. No, wait. They would have bought it anyway. They just wouldn’t have finished it whereas I couldn’t finish it as is.
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Until last night I had read all but one of Haruki...
Until last night I had read all but one of Haruki Murakami’s books. Here is a complete list of his books that, until last night, I had read:
The Elephant Vanishes, and After the Quake, both collections of short stories
Underground, a book of interviews with those who survived the Tokyo gas attack
And the novels:
Norwegian Wood
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Dance Dance...
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For Halloween I’ve decided I’m just wearing jeans and a black turtleneck. When people come up to me and say, “Ha, so you’re supposed to be Steve Jobs!” I’m just going to look at them funny and ask, “What do you mean?”
What are the great Wynton Marsalis albums? →
braiker:
My favorite is ‘In This House, On This Morning’
Two of my faves, coming back-to-back in the mid 80s, “Hot House Flowers” and “Black Codes (From the Underground).”
Editor's Note:
In today’s article, “King Tide to Raise Sea Level on Atlantic Coast,” the following sentence, “What we’re seeing Wednesday and Thursday is probably what we normally will be seeing by 2080,” Ms. Boicourt said,” should instead read:
“What we’re seeing Wednesday and Thursday is probably what we normally will be seeing by 2080,” Ms. Boicourt said optimistically,...
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“Night after night they stood alone, invisibly, in their solitary food lines, and...”
– http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/kevin-depew-us-economy-bank-bailouts/9/8/2011/id/36768
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Shambling Around the Shambles of this Shamblehood
“Look, son, until you use the word ‘shamble’ and all its many derivatives in a sentence, you can’t profess to be taken seriously. You’re just fucking around.”
Shamble. Shambles. Men who shamble. Women, too, however unlikely it may seem, shambling down the street, aimless. Shambling. Shambling buildings. Cities and entire economies in shambles. Shambling...
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paper gangster: Good week at work: Getting to know... →
donn:
Good week at work:
Getting to know more coworkers, and the others are getting cooler the more I know them.
The boss came through big today with the praise and the financial incentives. Not gonna lie, that was awesome. Looks like I may need to move to NYC sooner than expected. (Kevin follows me…
Rocktober: An Oral History →
A little something I wrote for The Awl.
The prose of Hungarian novelist László... →
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Finally! A Bubble Collapse That is Actually Good...
The Glenn Beck bubble has collapsed.
The first time he bought eggs, milk and jam at an... →
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Take up your scythe: The Diversity Reboot →
doctordisaster:
Modern superheroes reboot so often, you’d think their universes were running on some particularly fickle version of Windows. (And knowing some of the genius editorial mandates they’ve been subjected to, let’s just say that’s not entirely outside the realm of possibility.) DC has gotten to the…
September 2011
12 posts
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fuckyeahsoulmusic:
Sylvia - Pillow Talk
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