September 2011
August 2011
My Brief OkCupid Affair With a World Champion... →
“A fat, gross, know-it-all teen whom bullies urinated upon, Jon Finkel found his...”
– Jonny Magic and the Card Shark Kids: How a Gang of Geeks Beat the Odds and Stormed Las Vegas (2005)
“Asians are marrying later, and less, than in the past. This has profound...”
– The flight from marriage
“Next to our parents, nothing messes us up more than high school.”
– Glee
“Blogging is something that bothered me almost immediately once I began doing it,...”
– Alexander Chee, “On Maud Newton and DFW”
Questlove's celebrity stories (via kottke and... →
“Looking ahead a little, June 25th 2011 will be seen as a significant date in the...”
– The Flute Artisan
Kingless Throne: The State of New York City... →
“We’re in a position where we can actually alienate people and make them think...”
– Das Racist is done answering questions
An Oral History of Thao Nguyen
It comes down to mental health. I think I have been nuts for the past year and a half or two years because I didn’t have anything rooting me anywhere. When I graduated college the notion was very romantic to me. And I thought, “yeah I could go on tour forever,” ’cause what’s holding me back? But really I need something holding me back, because you can get very unhealthy and very reckless. And your...
“A good place to start would be to let fall your notions about “perfect couples.”...”
– Dear Sugar #81: A Bit of Sully in Your Sweet
“As I’ve said already, I love books, and I would rather not live in a world where...”
– The E-Reader of Sand: The Kindle and the Inner Conflict Between Consumer and Booklover
“Of the three authors I interviewed, Cindy Pon is arguably the one who is most...”
– Three Authors, Three Hopes for the Future of Publishing (and longer version)
Can the Middle Class Be Saved? →
“Supergods is less a history of the superhero genre than it is a meditation on...”
– In ‘Supergods,’ Grant Morrison Lovingly Dissects Do-Gooders and Their Derring-Do
“For those of us who are truly obsessed with chess, a pure chess moment”...”
– The Days and Knights of Tom Murphy (also Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess)
Justin Lin: Am I “retarded” for making Asian... →
“The problem we face is really two complementary conundrums: We need to give...”
– Jeff Yang, “Looking for a ‘Hangover’ cure” (and the 2% Project)
“Speedy Taylor, as he was called, had invented a new way to make money. He would...”
– Scientific management started as a way to work. How did it become a way of life? (2009)
“MTV has shaped so much for so long, it is hard to recall a time when there...”
– Birth of an MTV Nation (2000)
The People You Meet When You Write About Race →
“I also remember being struck by the famous passage about Esther imagining all...”
– Emily Gould, “The Bell Jar at 40”
“Specifically, it attempts to explain why attractive people make more money than...”
– The Ugliness Penalty
Rhonda Stapleton: Writing for writing's sake --... →
“How thoroughly and how radically Google has already transformed the information...”
– How Google Dominates Us
