Making Out in the Back of Horseless Carriages!
Teen hysteria, courtesy of the February 14, 1925 issue of the New York Evening Journal:
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Paul Collins
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Paul Collins teaches writing at Portland State University, and his work appears regularly in New Scientist, Slate, and The Believer. His next book, The Murder of the Century, will be published in June by Crown.
Whatever Entrepreneurs Can Dream Up…
…con-men have thought of first. Wandering through Old Bailey records, I found an 1889 investor scam worthy of a dot-com:
A little bit of film history
Via Daily Dish, an amazing hand-tinted 1899 Lumiere film of a Serpentine dance.
Stop Making Sense
An odd ‘un in the Guardian about a new study in this month’s Psychological Science:
The Blooburds uv my Hart
The Times carries an obituary to spelling reformer Ed Rondthaler, who passed away at age 104. He’s the man I described in a Believer piece last year as the last…
Dogfishing
Those of you with long memories may recall the Monkeyfishing hoax of 2001 in Slate. This was a piece by Jay Forman which revealed the existence of a illicit sport…
Coffee and Cigarettes
One unexpected Wayback Machine trip produced by Google Books: it appears that all of New York magazine is available in full text, something that produces such charming finds as this…
Little House on the Amazon
Galley Cat notes speculation on a patent filed by Amazon for a small building design. (The patent’s here…) The Street weighs in with that claim that “If, indeed, Amazon were…
We Inspire Complete Coincidences
Amazon, last seen on Slate not answering questions about corporate philanthropy, now has a new web page up—complete with an application form for “nonprofit author and publisher groups that share…
Action Cook Book
Len Deighton’s Action Cook Book—the long-lost 1965 gem by (yes) the airport-novel writer, which I pressed upon the public a few years ago in the Village Voice and on NPR…