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A diverse assembly of essays and articles united by their one common trait - good writing.
Updated on 2008-11-12
Created on 2008-04-10
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Op-Ed Columnist - Lord of the Memes - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
Dear Dr. Kierkegaard, All my life I’ve been a successful pseudo-intellectual, sprinkling quotations from Kafka, Epictetus and Derrida into my conversations, impressing dates and making my friends feel mentally inferior. But over the last few years, it’s stopped working.
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I wouldn't have to care if I lived in the suburbs | theage.com.au
I live with one tangled, distracted monkey mind. A mind that feels as if it's a lift filled with a circus, a noisy Irish family, a bunch of drunk second-year philosophy students, a 60-year-old brothel owner with a smart mouth and filthy mind, a couple of 16-year-old emos and a dancing ballerina in a music box.
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The Atlantic Online | January/February 2008 | The Angriest Man In Television | Mark Bowden
How David Simon’s disappointment with the industry that let him down made The Wire the greatest show on television—and why his searing vision shouldn’t be confused with reality
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Our Far-Flung Correspondents: Swingers: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Bonobos are celebrated as peace-loving, matriarchal, and sexually liberated. Are they?
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PREVIEW: A Man of Incessant Labor
The late William F. Buckley Jr. was a man of incessant labor and productivity, with a slight allowance made for that saving capacity for making it appear easy. But he was driven, all right, and restless, and never allowed himself much ease on his own account. There was never a moment, after taping some session at Firing Line, where mere recourse to some local joint was in prospect. He was always just about to be late for the next plane, or column, or speech, or debate. Except that he never was late, until last Wednesday.
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The Call of the Wild - The New York Review of Books
His Illegal Self is a little book in the way that raspberries or bees or nuggets of uranium are little. It is shorter than Peter Carey's best-known books, Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang, both of which are epics of almost uncanny originality set in the nineteenth century, and both of which won the Booker Prize. The new novel takes place in the more recent past, the early 1970s, and unlike much of Carey's previous work, which is exhilarating in its scope, His Illegal Self is exhilarating partly because the depth of field has narrowed so dramatically. Reading this novel, Carey's tenth, is like peering at the human heart, at the world itself, through the distorted precision of a magnifying glass—one carried in the pocket of a seven-year-old boy. Carey's characters are often accidental outlaws. In His Illegal Self, the adventurer and outlaw is a child.
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1999 Pulitzer Prizes-FEATURE WRITING, Eye to Eye With `Yo Roller' By Angelo B. Henderson
DETROIT -- "Get on the ground," a man holding a gun screamed. "I'll blow your heads off if you move."
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Esquire | Superman Comes to the Supermarket | by Norman Mailer
In November 1960, Norman Mailer first tried his hand at a genre that would come to define his career. This is Mailer's debut into the world of political journalism, a sprawling classic examining John F. Kennedy.
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Online NewsHour: Terry Southern reports from the 1968 Democratic Convention -- November 1968
On the way to the hotel this afternoon, coming from the airport, I saw something right out of a Bunuel movie; in a desolate section that resembles the Jersey flats, four boys each about ten years old and armed with small sticks were flailing wildly at a huge crippled black man who reeled and staggered drunkenly among the piles of debris in a deserted lot. The taxi passed within fifty feet of the scene, slowing down as the driver looked directly at it, with no apparent reaction.
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Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com (2008 Pulitzer Prize - Best Feature Writing
Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out.
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The New York Times > New York Region > Connecticut: Writer's Block
CONNECTICUT must be a Land of Canaan for writers. No other explanation seems plausible for why people in the literary trade have wandered here in such abundance. Philip Roth has lived in Connecticut for many years; Arthur Miller and William Styron for decades. Frank McCourt moved here a few years ago. And Mark Twain, it almost feels, has never left.
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Authors and Writers - Books - Leo Tolstoy - Thomas Wolfe - Raymond Carver - New York Times
WE are a nation of grad students, or that’s what people in the book business seem to be hoping as they race to sell us not only the finished work of famous authors but also the rough drafts.
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Profiles: Somebody Has to Be in Control: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
The effort behind George Clooney’s effortless charm.
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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold | by Gay Talese
"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism -- a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction.\n"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism.\n\nIn the winter of 1965, writer Gay Talese arrived in Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to profile Frank Sinatra. The legendary singer was approaching fifty, under the weather, out of sorts, and unwilling to be interviewed. So Talese remained in L.A., hoping Sinatra might recover and reconsider, and he began talking to many of the people around Sinatra -- his friends, his associates, his family, his countless hangers-on -- and observing the man himself wherever he could. The result, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," ran in April 1966 and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism -- a work of rigorously faithful fact enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction. The piece conjures a deeply rich portrait of one of the era's most guarded figures and tells a larger story about entertainment, celebrity, and America itself. We're very pleased to republish it here.
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Chris Matthews - Hardball - Profile - New York Times
Whenever Chris Matthews says something he likes, which happens a lot, he repeats it often and at volumes suggesting a speaker who feels insufficiently listened to at times. “Tim Russert finally reeled the big marlin into the boat tonight,” Matthews yelled — nine times, on and off the air, after a Democratic debate that Russert moderated with Brian Williams in late February at Cleveland State University. Matthews believed that Russert (the fisherman) had finally succeeded in getting Hillary Clinton (the marlin) to admit that she was wrong to vote in favor of the Iraq war resolution in 2002. “We’ve been trolling for that marlin for what, a year now?” Matthews said to Russert.
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