What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell All on the Web
Hell yeah! This is the kind of web documentation I can get behind. Malcolm Gladwell has a new book coming out called What the Dog Saw made up of articles he's written for the New Yorker over the last...
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A Month’s Worth of Links About Newspapers
Photo by Flickr user danielweir.esq It's important to note when discussing the problems at newspapers that spending on advertising is down almost EVERYWHERE, not just in newspapers. Industries that are...
View ArticleGladwell’s for Dummies
I would have never started reading Maureen Tkacik's Gladwell for Dummies in The Nation if I had known that it was over 8K words, so, you know, be warned. And yet it has an "irritating, unrelenting...
View Article25 Media Maxims from Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta from the New Yorker wrote a book about Google, “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It†and before he published it, he cut the last chapter of 25 media maxims. Click the link above...
View ArticleDave Eggers on JD Salinger
I'm posting this Dave Eggers remembrance of JD Salinger because it's nice, but mostly because I wanted a place to memorialize the crazy ass 1st comment in case it's deleted for some reason. The world...
View ArticleChanges to Oscar Voting
Hendrik Hertzberg explains the Oscars' new voting system. The change, while making it more likely that blockbusters will be nominated, makes it more likely that an underdog will actually win. From 1946...
View ArticleThe Spotted Pig in The New Yorker
The New Yorker recently profiled The Spotted Pig chef April Bloomfield and among other things discussed what it takes to work for her: If David Chang’s band of renegades are the Red Sox of the New...
View ArticleOn losing.
Chicago Christmas, 1984 There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing...
View ArticleJust like Apple
Daring Fireball recently linked to a New Yorker article about the interesting corporate structure of the Green Bay Packers. In it, this sentence: Shareholders receive no dividend check and no free...
View ArticleScientology
You've by now, no doubt, seen several people post about the Scientology article in The New Yorker. I just wanted it noted for the record that I read the whole damn thing. I just looked through...
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Same name, different face
Daniel Bejar is an artist with a project he calls Googlegänger. Daniel Bejar is also the name of a musician from Vancouver. This is what Bejar did: He grew his hair into a frizzy mane, and he grew a...
View ArticleArrested Development movie AND season of TV
I knew following the New Yorker's Twitter account would eventually pay off. Today at New Yorker Fest, the latest news about the long rumored Arrested Development movie. Calling this project 'on again...
View ArticleHenry Luce vs. Harold Ross
The New Yorker recently had a profile of Henry Luce and Time and Harold Ross and The New Yorker's opinion of them. Balloon Juice highlighted a couple of the good parts. This is the type of cattiness we...
View ArticleCrying Man
Short and sweet and sad. The dog gave him a glance and we moved on by, but when I stopped after a decent distance and looked back he’d bent forward in his misery and I could hear sobs. A thin, tall...
View ArticleBarney Frank’s insults
Here's a list of Barney’s best insults. The list should probably be 10 times as long. “You’re stupid.†—to Margarey Egan of the Boston Herald, on some hundred occasions. ###Possibly related...
View ArticleNew Zadie Smith short story in the New Yorker
The Embassy of Cambodia by Zadie Smith in this week's New Yorker. Next door to the embassy is a health center. On the other side, a row of private residences, most of them belonging to wealthy Arabs...
View ArticleThe men who steal eggs
This 7700-word article about bird egg collecting is a strong, strong contender for the "Most New Yorkery Article" of the year. That said, it is also fascinating and full of bird and bird egg history....
View Article13 most read New Yorker articles of the year
Nicholas Thompson posted the 13 most read New Yorker articles of 2013 yesterday…as a slide-show. There's a lot to keep you busy over the next couple days if you're tired of fighting with your parents...
View ArticleCapturing El Chapo
A compelling story about how one of the most powerful drug dealers in Mexico was captured. Guzmán had other weaknesses. “He loves the gourmet food,” a D.E.A. official told me. From time to time, he...
View ArticleMilitia on an Army base
This story, by Nadya Labi, about an anti-government militia forming on a military base really doesn't make the US Military look very good. Isaac Aguigui's wife died suspiciously resulting in a cash...
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