February 2012
34 posts
“People approaching 30 — many of them dealing with life changes like marriage and...”
– How to End a Friendship
Jack Halberstam: Queers Create Better Models of... →
The premise of The Queer Art of Failure is that at this moment, intense capitalist accumulation, we’re living with one model of success and failure and one model alone. And that model is, that to make money and to advance professionally is what it means to be successful, and everything else is failure. That’s given us a zero-sum model against which we can judge our achievements in life, and...
20 Common Grammar Mistakes That (Almost) Everyone... →
“In these pages, we’ll try to decode the new economy of fame, top to bottom—the...”
– The Celebrity Economy (with numbers)
“Nothing even remotely resembling party discipline on the issue of abortion can...”
– The Politics of Planned Parenthood and Women’s Rights
“Even more than critical thinking or time management, what the white-collar...”
– Leveling the field: What I learned from for-profit education (2011)
“It’s still a book about aging superheroes choking on their own curdled dreams, a...”
– Great Moments in Nerd Trolling: the Watchmen Prequels
“[Bill] Simmons’s genius lies not so much in turning his lack of access as an...”
– Late Patriot Football
“To be a young woman in our culture means that you exist, from an alarmingly...”
– Alice Bradley - Blog - On being an object, and then not being an object
Good lord, this whole post.
“Asian candidates, meanwhile, are suspiciously stoic if they don’t express...”
– Female Candidates and the Emotion Double bind
“I have never once had a white kid customer avoid a book with a kid of color on...”
– Selling Color to Customers: A Bookseller’s Guide
“It is odd when we talk about writing: our modes are at the extreme ends of the...”
– Frank Chimero: Sharing and Giving, Collections and Gifts
“For 2008, for example, the government had previously tallied 935 confirmed...”
– n+1: Raise the Crime Rate
The Souper Bowl: A head to head matchup of the 32... →
“Traffic is the most dangerous thing that most of us ever encounter. From 2001 to...”
– Let the Robot Drive: The Autonomous Car of the Future Is Here
“Three little words you often see
Are ARTICLES: a, an, and the.
A NOUN’s the name...”
– Definitions of Basic Sentence Parts: Word Functions and Usage Notes
“7. People will lie about buying the books you publish as if you don’t have...”
– Lessons I’ve Learned Starting a Micropress
January 2012
41 posts
“First off, I still know loads of people in CT who epitomize...”
– i-mami: Very Special Conversations
“A Romantic is someone who asks when you would like to see them. When you answer...”
– Stephen Elliot, Daily Rumpus
“I was a little insulted that Eben Franckewitz claimed he looks like Justin...”
– Mark Lisanti answering “Will Eben Franckewitz snatch the crown off David Archuleta’s head and rule the Kingdom of the Castrato Pubescent Preteen Singing Machines?”
“I’m torn. Heejun Han will be the third Korean dude to take the Idol stage,...”
– Jay Caspian Kang answering “Who was your favorite performer on the second night?” and link to Han’s audition
“Bao Phi culls his lyric stories from news headlines and from the street, calling...”
– Bao Phi’s debut poetry collection
“But a funny thing has happened since the rise of professionalism. The tenets it...”
– The Believer, “Haterade”
“Midlist authors likely have part- or full-time day jobs or do adjunct teaching...”
– The agony of the male novelist
“But it’s not always lonely. Outside of your bedroom, there’s a world. And it...”
– Living After Midnight