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Join NOW!Three years ago this spring I gave myself one Sunday afternoon off from self-pity to indulge in some window-shopping. A movie rental place among the sporadic cush boutiques of a “turning” avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn first caught my guilt-trap.
...moreSomehow everyone feels like they know a Simon Rich, a self-proclaimed nerd who embraced his geek-cool and blossomed into his brand as if overnight. Sometimes it seems like everyone I know knows Rich himself. To them, Rich is a kind of legend—a Saturday Night Live writer and former Harvard Lampoon president who signed a two-book […]
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