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Joshuah Bearman
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Maybe I Actually Do Approve of Gimmicky Art Installed in Boutique Hotels
Because this video mural, installed in an elevator in the new Standard in New York, is mesmerising.
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My (Hopeful) Addition to the Best of Wikipedia
Looks like they don’t have Noël Godin covered. I love a scoop! So I submitted the following:
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Why Do Serial Killers Always Keep a Scrapbook…
or talk in riddles, or compose weird rhymes about their crimes? This story, by this great writer, is like a real life Silence of the Lambs!
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Journeys With George (Saunders), or Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers, Part 2
Find part 1 here. A while back, as a nice gesture, my pal Sean McDonald gave me George Saunders’ (at the time) new book, The Braindead Megaphone. It was in galley, since Sean edited it. I was excited. Here in…
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Yeti Researcher Reconsidered, By a Smarty Pants English Student
I guess I finally rode McSweeney’s coattails into a graduate English department: McSweeney’s 17 forms a key part of the honors thesis of one Flora Feltham, at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Some time ago, she emailed me the…
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Let There Be Light
Did you know that for 800 million years after the Big Bang there was darkness — until the re-ionization of the gas throughout the universe enabled the first rays of starlight to shine? It’s true! Until recently, we hadn’t been…
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Travel with Wells Tower, or Why Magazines Should Hire More Fiction Writers s
Travel writing is mostly bad. It’s partly the fault of the form; contemporary travel magazines are filled with 10 Best New Hotels/Bars/Spas on Yet Another Tony Exclusive Island or How to Eat Fabulously in This Most Glorious Setting You Will…
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Duets with the Taliban
Just getting around to reading David Rohde’s epic, five-part series on his capture by, and escape from, the Taliban, which — along with the nifty interactive add-on feature — is as gripping as one might expect. I hate to say…
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The Best Zombie Story of the Year
More than forty years after George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead made critics question the future of a culture that could produce such a thing, that future is here – and it is full of zombies. There are zombie…
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Another Bold Declaration About The YouTube Mash-Up
First, it ascended to high art with Kutiman’s assemblage of unrelated music clips into original jams. Now the ante has been officially upped by Darren Solomon, who combined twenty YouTube music clips into a sprawling, interactive, personalized Steve Reich-o-tron, right…