2011
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Lying Artists
Artists and certain brain damage patients have overlapping tendencies—lying or “chronic confabulation,” in neuroscience vernacular. The difference is in that writers fabricate experiences and consciously control their associations whereas people who have incurred frontal lobe damage may be unable to…
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Joe Sacco
The Believer magazine sat down with comic journalist Joe Sacco to talk about his book Footnotes in Gaza, his creative process, the unique value of comic journalism, and illustration versus photography.
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #75: The Three-Year Dry Hump
Set your limits. State your needs. Respect your boundaries. Then step back.
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Aggressive Didion
A snippet of an old Joan Didion interview with Tom Brokaw surfaced on Twitter recently. Asked if she becomes a different person when sitting at the typewriter, Didion says it makes her feel completely in control over the “tiny, tiny…
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Poor Yorick Entertainment
Upon finishing Infinite Jest (doing so is like a sacrament, which I say even though I’m Jewish), Chris Ayers created a shining visual memorial/appendage to Infinite Jest. The website Poor Yorick Entertainment is “a visual exploration of the filmography of…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
In Google news, the company is blaming China (again) for the latest round of Gmail hacks, and today they launch a new “+1” button to compete with Facebook’s ubiquitous “Like” around the interwebs. Where did Nokia go wrong, and is…
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Brush Up on Your Literary Feuds
Whitehead v. Ford Egan v. Weiner Rushdie v. Updike Writers duel with their words, though sometimes there’s spit involved. Flavorwire has a list of 10 notorious literary spats.
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‘To a Restless Little Brother’
“You may not understand this now, but she isn’t coming back. Not tonight. Not tomorrow. Day after that. And no, she hasn’t left anything behind — a sticky note on the refrigerator door or a quick message for the answering…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the known world, deepest living thing! Let’s talk about profanity in the New Yorker. Fact: there are some very large numbers in the world. Coming soon: actual useful jetpacks.
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Rafah Crossing
Approaching the Rafah crossing on the morning of its historic opening, I pass a lone Palestinian woman in her mid 20’s holding a newborn, walking into Egypt. Twenty yards behind her, sweltering in the late morning desert sun is a…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Chinese attackers have been hijacking the Gmail accounts of hundreds of politically active users. Northrup Grumman may just be the latest in a series of cyberattacks against US defense contractors. Wireless internet traffic set to overtake wired traffic by 2015.…