Archive for category: Books
- My new PowerPoint technique is unstoppable (2011.01.11)
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There’s a whole chapter in A Visit from the Goon Squad created in PowerPoint. And it works
- ‘Dude’ (2011.01.05)
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Michael Cunningham: “What kind of word is dude for a boy like Mizzy to be using?”
- Claire Berlinski pulls rug out (2010.12.24)
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Claire Berlinski demolishes not only the sanctimony of the entire exercise of best-book-of-the-year lists but the undead premise of the entire publishing industry
- Millionaire celebrity author puts out ‘tip jar’ (2010.12.17)
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A-list humorist David Sedaris, who used to live in the south of France, used to put out a “tip jar” that raked in four grand
- ‘Mad Men Unbuttoned’: Sometimes blogs should stay blogs (2010.12.08)
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Natasha Vargas-Cooper’s Mad Men Unbuttoned worked better as postings on the Awl
- The crisis in book design (for once, averted) (2010.12.03)
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I have the scoop on the design of the Giller-winning Sentimentalists. Also: Family Compact publishers, could you go fuck yourselves?
- Bret Easton Ellis, pink marshmallow (2010.10.10)
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‘And since there had been a serial killer in of all fucking places Toronto, for Christ’s sake, who had read the book and based to of his murders on scenes from it, I made a number of frantic, drunken phone calls’
- Half-fulfilled promises of ‘Half Empty’ (2010.10.08)
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Is David Rakoff’s Half Empty an attempt at autobiography? Then why is it a failed attempt?
- ‘Do you realize there’s no extant photograph of him?’ (2010.09.03)
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“ ‘Why is that?’ I asked. ‘Why is it like this?’ ‘It’s because we’re queer, my dear’ ”