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How To Be Alone
When we broach the concept of obsolescence, what first comes to mind are fast-disappearing objects, faded relics of another age: mix tapes and vinyl records, quill pens and love letters, penny-farthings and Polaroid cameras. Obsolete objects, of course, never die: they’re turfed out of our houses as trash, only to turn up in antique stores,…
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Links: Magazines Without Personality
“Rolling Stone, you see, suffers from the all-too-common affliction which I like to call ‘Good Stories, Bad Magazine Syndrome’,” argues Hamilton Nolan over at Gawker. “That is, while Rolling Stone can be reliably counted on to put out a number of important, groundbreaking, top-notch works of journalism throughout the year, they will never put out enough…
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Magazines Are People, Too
Why do we buy magazines? Seriously, let’s be honest here. It’s not because we’re looking for well-written articles and great photographs or illustrations, is it? Or it’s not just that, because that stuff’s all available online. We buy magazines because we want to buy into a worldview. We want to be taken by the hand…
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Links: Blogging
“I post or publish the piece, thinking that nothing can possibly go wrong. Annnnnd then it all goes horribly wrong. Oh, it’s not your intelligence that concerns me, dear reader. It’s the intelligence of the Dumbest Person On The Internet.” Andy Ihnatko, on moron readers. “First you’re going to need your main ingredient: the Point. Take the Point and…
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Review: Benjamin Law’s ‘The Family Law’
When former Gawker writer Emily Gould scored the cover story of the Times Magazine in May 2008, people got pissy. Then-26-year-old Gould’s piece ran to just under 8000 words, and was a memoir of sorts, detailing her exploits as a personal and professional blogger. The piece received over a thousand online comments, most of them…