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2010
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Christmas in Beirut
My family has always had a love/hate relationship with Christmas. My sisters love it, I hate it.
Happy Holidays!
The Believer has posted “Barry Hannah [Writer] in Conversation with Wells Tower [Writer]” in its entirety. Happy holidays indeed.
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
A great breakdown of how much each tech company spends on lobbying and for what. Trying to explain to Mom or Granddad for the 100th time how to upload videos…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The NY Times wants to discuss the history of space suits with you. Continuing a theme of sorts: Chinese ghost cities. The wonderful world of one star Amazon book reviews.…
The Rumpus Interview with Luc Sante
Luc Sante is perhaps best known for his sprawling, meticulously researched nonfiction book Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, about subterranean life among the dregs in 19th…
“A Special Sort of Buzz”
“To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little Wittgenstein.” Slate has posted an adapted version of James Wyerson’s “A Head That Throbbed Heartlike: The…
10/40/70 #30: Machine Gun McCain
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
“Many great writers turn out more books than they should because they’re expected to.”
“Somehow we’ve got the idea that writers should be able to support themselves with their writing, and that you’re not a writer at all if you’re not writing, even after…