Immigrants Make For Safe Cities
“If you want to find a safe city, first determine the size of the immigrant population,” says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. “If the immigrant community…
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Morning Coffee
today is going to be one of those days. Sometimes life seems pretty hard, but at least demons aren’t coming up from the ground. See also: THE DOOR TO HELL…
Get Your War On… Jamba Juice (Update)
Get Your War On and My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable creator David Rees has been ripped off in a major way by Jamba Juice’s latest ad campaign. To read…
A Writer, a Traveler, and an Expat
I’m a congenital traveler, had been long before I wrote my first book. I took my first plane ride when I was two weeks old (taught me to travel light)…
Morning Coffee
Vanity Fair edits Palin’s resignation speech. Maybe you’d like to think we are above such things, this is not the case. Panda elephants! “God, Guns, Guts, and American Pick-Up Trucks.”…
Milton Glaser Remembers Nabokov
Shortly after I posted a story about an author’s experience of book design, I accidentally opened my copy of McSweeney’s 4, which consisted of a box of pamphlets, and I…
Get Your War On… Jamba Juice
David Rees, creator of Get Your War On and My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable, is getting ripped off by Jamba Juice‘s latest ad campaign. Rees has responded by calling…
The Inevitability of Fashion
As a society, there are specific fashion trends we all look back on and can pretty much agree were horrible mistakes.
Morning Coffee
Environmental Graffiti on the natural beauty of Antelope Canyon and the man-made awesomeness of demolition. While we’re on the topic, here is an article about giant balls of fire in…
Edith Wharton’s Lost Letters
In the upcoming New Yorker, Rebecca Mead writes about Edith Wharton’s letters to her governess, Anna Bahlmann. “Wharton had requested that her letters be destroyed, but Bahlmann’s family ignored her…
Jonathan Lethem Meets The Thing
I was waiting on a couple the other night at a restaurant where I work, and I saw a strange box on their table that had Jonathan Lethem‘s name printed…