April 2011
12 posts
Apr 29th
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A story about the feud between Henry Luce, founder of Time magazine, and Harold Ross, founder of The New Yorker? And written by Jill Lepore, no less! I’m all over it like stupid on Timestyle.
Apr 29th
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Nile View, Wendell Steavenson’s new blog at The New Yorker, is terrific. You should probably get the RSS feed.
Apr 27th
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Madame Nhu, former First Lady of South Vietnam and supervillainess extraordinaire, has passed away at 87. It’s cartoon characters like her that obituaries were invented for—try The Guardian’s.
Apr 27th
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I’ve finished reading Taking on the World, Robert W. Merry’s biography of Joseph and Stewart Alsop, two of the most influencial American commentators/journalists of the 20th century. In addition to serving as an overview of some of the major foreign-policy debates of the 40s, 50s, and 60s, it’s a sort of nauseating portrait of an intimate relationship between a couple of...
Apr 21st
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…the greatest myth [in American political discourse] is that there is too little bipartisanship in Washington.  There is very little but that.  - Glenn Greenwald I thought this little line was just snappy as hell.
Apr 20th
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How to win at interviews →
Apr 18th
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Somebody was bound to start making these... →
Apr 18th
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Jennifer Grose on Community: I fear that the character Chang (played by Ken Jeong, who is best known as the crazed, poorly endowed pimp in The Hangover) is ruining the sitcom.The Onion AV Club termed these sorts of characters “Showblockers” last year: a person who is “so grating—sometimes intentionally so—that even fans of the show heave a heavy sigh when they appear...
Apr 17th
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Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 12th
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