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Sam Riley
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Sam Riley is an adult who works at McSweeney's.
Dispatches from the Great Mistakes Tour
Our intrepid managing editor, Isaac Fitzgerald, is out on the road with LA-based comic Kyle Kinane. Together they are traversing the American landscape, road-tripping and city-hopping for Kyle’s Great Mistakes…
East German Spy Outfits
The artist Simon Menner is redefining “dress up,” an old childhood favorite by assembling a collection of Stasi spy outfits, because there is one for every occasion imaginable!
3-D Movies Here Forever?
Veteran directors Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are jumping on the 3-D movie bandwagon, though this cinematic trend’s sustainability is currently being questioned. With movie studios and…
Top Ten Best New Poets
Flavorwire’s got “The Best of the Best New Poets 2011,” hand-selected from the 50 emerging poets included in this year’s Best New Poets. Though we tend to shy away from…
Writers from an Editor’s Perspective
Dinty W. Moore, an editor at Brevity and the anthology Best Creative Nonfiction, is interviewed by Matador Notebook on writers. He makes some interesting and useful points about the ever-branching…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you don’t use these words, they’re gonna go bad. Get super intimate with the moon. Where’d this guy get a million circuit boards? Baby boomers have their own texting…
A History of Gun Control
One of the Longreads selections from the past week is this article in the Atlantic on gun control and the ambiguity of the second amendment’s language. This story doesn’t just…
Gatsby Forever American
There another Gatsby adaptation in the works. F Scott Fitzgerald’s American masterpiece has resurfaced over and over again—as a couple films, as an orchestral production by the Madison Symphony, a…
Postponing/Anticipation
Due to second thoughts about preserving the anonymity of one of Sugar’s advice seekers, Dear Sugar will run a little later than expected. (As Sugar put it on twitter: “Oy.…
On Advice and Sugar’s Anonymity
As linked to earlier today, Sugar, our favorite weekly advice columnist, got written up in The New Republic. Ruth Franklin recognizes the dedicated band of followers that depend on their…