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“If you run it out of your house, then no one expects anything…”
Ben McGrath profiles Gawker Media founder Nick Denton for The New Yorker.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #56
FLEET WEEK! ★★★★★★ (6 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Fleet Week!
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Notable New York, This Week 10/11 – 10/17
This week in New York David Grossman translates with Paul Auster, Justin Taylor and Eva Tamladge exhibit tattoos for the literary inclined, Tao Lin reads, Guernica celebrates, Bill Bryson is Private, Rick Moody joins the Sunday Salon, Catfish is the…
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How They Were Found
“As soon as the wolf forced himself inside her, she sprung her trap, showing him that she too knew what it meant to consume someone whole.”
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Dan Weiss’ Morning Coffee
Start your week off right with some toxic Hungarian sludge. Lapham’s Quarterly on floating cities, real and imagined. Concrete canvas is totally amazing. Vintage coffee tins! Hurray! Um, have you read about Googles robot car yet?
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Erika Lopez Builds Her Own Utopia
“Everything I’m trying to do is about working with love and integrity and a ferocity that takes over the existing status quo. I want this to be normal.”
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Here’s Some Stories I Like
For your Sunday evening perusal, here’s some very short and very awesome short shorts I liked. I hope you like them too. “That time your mother crashed the car into the Dairy Queen she had dropped her cigarette and was…
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Writing In The Buff
When Victor Hugo had writer’s block, “he had his servant take all of his clothes away for the day and leave his own nude self with only pen and paper, so he’d have nothing to do but sit down and…
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Robot Reporters and Automated Anchors
Hey, here’s something terrifying: To fill the void of the massive layoffs that have hit journalism, it appears that news outlets may be looking more and more to computers and even artificial intelligence to fill the void. Among the things…