Notable NYC: 8/4–8/10
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Posts Tagged: Jon Ronson
What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Healthcare
Here’s a list of wonderful books that look at physical and mental health from many different perspectives. By the time we read through the entire list, maybe Congress will have come to their senses.
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert Glancy
Robert Glancy discusses his sophomore novel, Please Do Not Disturb, growing up under a dictatorship, borrowing and stealing from reality, and his love of proverbs.
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#Betrayal: On Instagram, Is Hell Other Women?
Instagram: an app powerful enough to blow a million Think Pieces to smithereens in everything it says about female relations.
...moreShaming Public Shaming
What makes this book an uncomfortable, if distant, cousin of GamerGate and men’s rights activist logic is that it, too, relies on a series of false equivalencies and muddy distinctions in order to elevate being shamed on social media to epic proportions. These sorts of distortions are dangerous because they minimize — and even threaten […]
...moreThe Sociopath’s Side of the Story
With the recent spate of writing about sociopathy—including Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test and a New York Times story on possibly psychopathic children—it was only a matter of time before we got a firsthand account from someone who actually has the disorder. That someone is M. E. Thomas, and a chapter from her new book Confessions of a Sociopath […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Jon Ronson
A “non-stop, fascinatingly meandering, frequently interrupting, talking-over-each-other, freewheeling kind of conversation” with bestselling author Jon Ronson.
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