November 2011
October 2011
What a Publisher Does →
“Purely in terms of income, according to tax returns filed in 2009, if your...”
– Who Exactly IS The 1%?
“Yet Horowitz recognizes, too, the threat of the overly humanized view of the...”
– Dog Story: How did the dog become our master?
“We often interact with professionals who exercise their judgment with evident...”
– Don’t Blink! The Hazards of Confidence
“The proper selection of guests is the first essential in all entertaining, and...”
– Emily Post on formal dinners (1922)
“It was liberating to hear someone take on those traditional expressions of...”
– David Combs (http://www.punknews.org/article/42845)
n+1: Occupy! An OWS-Inspired Gazette is now... →
The Daily Rumpus: Publishers and Producers
Last night a friend asked about breaking into film vs. breaking into publishing. Publishing, he thought, was more white shoe, more closed. I wasn’t sure. It was true that there was more agreement on whether a movie worked than a book, and if you could make a movie that worked you were already ahead, even if it wasn’t perfect. And if your book wasn’t someone’s version of...
“Bromance narratives, though, show that people are aware of asexual partnerships,...”
– Ah, What a Fine Bromance! The Hidden Asexual Narratives in Pop Culture
WatchOur Road Trip 2011
“No one rehearses in his bedroom unknown until he’s twenty. You evolve in front...”
– Lefsetz Letter: Pomplamoose At The Troubadour
A YA Op-Ed Mad Lib, For Your Editorial-Writing... →
“A major shift occurred in my writing. My girlfriend went traveling and I sent...”
– Stephen Elliot, “Why I Write” (2009)
Watch complete games of the Dream Team from the... →
“And since we are, as a generation, more addicted to positive reinforcement than...”
– The Kids Are Actually Sort of Alright
“Writing about later travelogues, Paul Theroux hones in on individuality, and in...”
– On the Travelogue
Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest... →
“Let’s try something bold. Let’s start from the assumption that games...”
– “The Art of Contested Spaces,” Kurt Squire and Henry Jenkins
“I really wanted to represent—and dramatize—that these people have these private...”
– The Rumpus Interview with Andrew Haigh (director of Weekend)
My Misspent Youth: Life, and debt, in New York... →
“To this day, I’m not sure that I am in possession of substantially greater...”
– My Life in Therapy (2010)
“Adults continued to be those who took over the primary tasks of the economy and...”
– Where Have the Good Men Gone? - WSJ.com
“Is the entirety of the human experience being reduced to what happens on a...”
– Reelviews: The Anti-Social Network
Smart Football: Teaching a quarterback where to... →
“‘They want you to shut up,’ I explained. ‘That’s the point of a rape threat....”
– Tiger Beatdown: On Blogging, Threats, and Silence
“With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same...”
– Akira Kurosawa
“That same summer, Jonathan Franzen, also 28, was living in Jackson Heights,...”
– Just Kids: Franzen, DFW, Eugenides…
The 10 Oldest Books Known to Man →
“J. M. Barrie’s Neverland, like Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland before it, delivers on...”
– No More Adventures in Wonderland 