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Swinging Modern Sounds #50: The Big 5-0!
So here I am at fifty columns (54, or 55, actually, but I was slow getting this one done and so it’s out of sequence), and five years into Swinging Modern Sounds. Something like 200,000 words, maybe...
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Those little blue padlocks are gone for good. Starting this week, newyorker.com will release all its content to the public, free of charge, until summer’s end. Unfortunately for subscription...
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Examining the troubled origins of our search for technological utopia.Autocorrect is our favorite fall guy for texting errors, but it’s also the reason you can text.What is worth saving from your...
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Is this where digital media is headed?When your body is tracked.Gender, power, privilege, and technology.What did you talk about on social media in 2014?Publish or perish: Amazon edition.Related...
View ArticlePlease Sir, I Want Some More
At The New Inquiry, Christine Baumgarthuber sketches the elitist history of food writing over the centuries before praising digital media’s impact on food culture: In a food blog—or any blog, for that...
View ArticleTech Companies Profit While Writers Starve
Digital media companies are suddenly worried about declining ad revenue, and the venture capitalists funding these companies have also turned off the faucet of cash as they realize that success stories...
View ArticleDigital Emotions
Over at the Paris Review Daily, Wei Tchou explores writers’ presentation of their emotions via social media, and what that means for how their work is judged. Tchou concludes:Overblown emotional...
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The Rumpus Interview with Terry McDonell
Longtime magazine editor Terry McDonell is more the director of his new memoir than he is its star. This is in no way a slight as The Accidental Life’s ensemble cast includes Hunter S. Thompson, Peter...
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Writing History
Since I first began writing historical nonfiction books fourteen months ago, I have had to emphasize to everyone, from friends and family, to the caseworker reevaluating my EBT application, that my job...
View ArticleLong Live the Book: Jessica Pressman’s Bookishness
People don’t always quote poetry in the movies, but when they do—more often than you might think—it seems they’ve got a lot of it memorized. When appearing before a government panel in the James Bond...
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